“My past is everything I failed to be.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
O meu passado é tudo quanto não consegui ser.
Source: The Book of Disquietude, trans. Richard Zenith, text 100
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Verified author @hana77, member from Feb. 18, 2020“Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 163
The Book of Disquiet
Original: A experiência directa é o subterfúgio, ou o esconderijo, daqueles que são desprovidos de imaginação.
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 249
Original: Adoramos a perfeição, porque não a podemos ter; repugná-la-íamos, se a tivéssemos. O perfeito é o desumano, porque o humano é imperfeito.
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.”
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Repudiei sempre que me compreendessem. Ser compreendido é prostituir-se. Prefiro ser tomado a sério como o que não sou, ignorado humanamente, com decência e naturalidade.
Source: The Book of Disquietude, trans. Richard Zenith, text 128
“I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
Source: báseň A Dream Within a Dream
“Those who are hardest to love need it the most.”
Socrates (-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer
Variant: The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
“There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.”
Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) Austrian writer
“As the thing more perfect is, the more it feels of pleasure and of pain.”
Dante Alighieri book La Divina Comedia
Source: The Divine Comedy (Božská komedie)
“Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.”
Léon Bloy (1846–1917) French writer, poet and essayist
Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 19, Association of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry., 1984 [Association of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry., 1984]
“The path to paradise begins in hell.”
Dante Alighieri book La Divina Comedia
Source: The Divine Comedy
“A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
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“Any Idiot Can Face a Crisis; It’s This Day-To-Day Living That Wears You Out.”
Unknown author
Často chybně připisováno Antonu Pavloviči Čechovovi
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/06/14/face-crisis/