Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Variant: When each day is the same as the nest it's because people fail to reconize the good things that happen in thier lives everyday the sunrises
Source: The Alchemist
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“The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.”
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
“A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.”
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913) British banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath
“Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.”
Jack London (1876–1916) American author, journalist, and social activist
"Getting into Print", first published in 1903 in The Editor magazine
Variant: You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Context: Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
Context: Fiction pays best of all and when it is of fair quality is more easily sold. A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration. Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible - if you care to see in print things you write. (In this connection don't do as I do, but do as I say.) Humour is the hardest to write, easiest to sell, and best rewarded... Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen. Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Variant: Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
As quoted in Mayor (1984) by Ed Koch
Attributed
“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”
William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
Mark Twain book Following the Equator
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. LXVI
Following the Equator (1897)
“Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
Variant: A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 112.
“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy