Martin Svoboda

“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

“It's no shame to be born stupid. Only to die stupid.”

“If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

“Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.”

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”

“Follow your heart but take your brain with you.”

“If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.”

“He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”

“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough”

“You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.”

“Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.”

“There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.”

“You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.”

“Love should not be polluted with friendship.”

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”