“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
“The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.”
“Don't live to fight, fight to live.”
Source: Resurrection, 1971-1996
“You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.”
As quoted in Office Yoga : Simple Stretches for Busy People (2000) by Darrin Zeer, p. 52
“I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.”
“We all have two lives. The second begins when you realize you only have one.”
“The first true love is always the last one.”
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)
“The sadness will last forever.”
Attributed to Vincent, as quoted by Theo van gogh in his letter from Paris, to Elisabeth van Gogh, 5 August 1890 http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/21/etc-Theo-Lies.htm
Some of the last words Vincent said to Theo, while dying
1890s
“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. LXVI
Following the Equator (1897)
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
“Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.”
This has often been attributed to Sun Tzu and sometimes to Petrarch. It comes most directly from a line spoken by Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974), written by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola:
My father taught me many things here. He taught me in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
Niccolò Machiavelli, who is also sometimes credited, wrote on the subject in The Prince:
It is easier for the prince to make friends of those men who were contented under the former government, and are therefore his enemies, than of those who, being discontented with it, were favourable to him and encouraged him to seize it.
Misattributed
As quoted in Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden (2005) by Bruce Lawrence ISBN 1844670457
2000s, 2004
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
“You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.”
