hana77
@hana77, member from Feb. 18, 2020
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden
Marita in Ch. 11
Source: The Garden of Eden (1986)
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde book The Soul of Man under Socialism
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Context: With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols for things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
„Žít v souladu se společností lze jenom za cenu nesouladu se sebou samým.“
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) dramatik, prozaik a básník
Source: Moudrost a vtip Oscara Wildea. Praha: LEDA 2008.
„Žít, to je nejzřídkavější věc na světě - většina lidí jenom existuje.“
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) dramatik, prozaik a básník
Variant: Žít, to je nejvzácnější věc na světě, neboť většina lidí jenom existuje.
„Sobectví není to, žít tak jak si přeješ, ale to, žádat ostatní, aby žili tak, jak ty chceš.“
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) dramatik, prozaik a básník
“Nothing is terrible except fear itself.”
Nil terribile nisi ipse timor.
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
De Augmentis Scientiarum, Book II, Fortitudo (1623)
Vincenc z Pauly (1581–1660) francouzský kněz, zakladatel a světec
Source: http://citato.cz/autor/vincenc-z-pauly
„Existují okamžiky, kdy se vyplatí bojovat a být poražený, než nebojovat vůbec.“
George Orwell (1903–1950) anglický spisovatel a novinář
Source: https://www.facebook.com/freedaeng/videos/834821980984785/
“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Variant: We don't even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.
Source: From a letter to William Packard from 1985 (published in Reach for the Sun - the 3rd volume of Bukowski correspondence)
Context: Sex, love, duty, God, family are not to be bargained with against happiness, and we don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
“Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: Between the Lines
“I forgive you … for treating me the way you felt about yourself.”
Source: Wild Spirit, Soft Heart
“The brief madness of bliss is experienced only by those who suffer the most deeply.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Source: This Spoke Zarathustra (Tak pravil Zarathustra)