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“The result does not matter: politicians never lose.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Interview.

“The closest thing to purgatory is a government agency, only the first does not exist and the second is very real.”

José Baroja book Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

“Contrary to what some might believe, writing does not generate enjoyment or pleasure in itself, quite the opposite; And yet, I feel the need to write fiction as if I have a feeling that I will find something in the middle of my narrative journey, no matter how painful it may be.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Klairet Levy, R. Interview to José Baroja. http://letras.mysite.com/jbar050923.html

Pain , Pleasure , Feeling

“Only God Can Judge Me
That which does not kill me can only make me stronger. I don't see why everybody feel as though that they gotta tell me how to live my
life”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Life , God , Feeling

“Does anybody like dolphins? Don’t go to SeaWorld.”

Harry Styles (1994) English singer, songwriter, and actor

Speaking at One Direction's concert in San Diego (9 July 2015) https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34123070

“Life does not forgive weakness.”

Adolf Hitler book Hitler's Letters and Notes

17 February 1945.
Disputed, The Testament of Adolf Hitler (1945)
Variant: Life does not forgive weakness.
Source: Hitler's Letters and Notes

Life , Forgiveness

“Just because you're paranoid, does not mean they're not out to get you.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

Song lyrics, Nevermind (1991)
Variant: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
Source: This quote is generally attributed to Joseph Heller from his novel Catch-22, although it appears to be from the film version only (screenplay by Buck Henry.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AParanoia Territorial Pissings.

“Every person who is tempted to go astray, does not deserve punishment.”

Ali book Nahj al-Balagha

Nahj al-Balagha

Personality

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”

James Baldwin book Nobody Knows My Name

"In Search of a Majority: An Address" (Feb 1960); reprinted in Baldwin, "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody_Knows_My_Name (1961)

love , Wise , Relationship , Cute

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”

Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer

Source: Clippings from My Notebook

Faith , Peaceful

“He who does nothing makes no mistakes; he who makes no mistakes learns nothing.”

Luca Pacioli (1445–1517) Italian father of accounting

Learning

“To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness!”

José Rizal book Noli Me Tángere

Source: Noli Me Tángere

Happiness

“Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.”

Vladimir Putin (1952) President of Russia, former Prime Minister

Heart

“Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.”

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor

As quoted in "A Visit to Nikola Tesla" by Dragislav L. Petković in Politika (April 1927); also in Tesla, Master of Lightning (1999) by Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, p. 82

Life , Men , Money

“Just because so many things are in conflict does not mean that we ourselves should be divided.”

Sophie Scholl (1921–1943) White Rose member

As quoted in Seeking Peace : Notes and Conversations Along the Way (1998) by Johann Christoph Arnold, p. 155
Context: Just because so many things are in conflict does not mean that we ourselves should be divided. Yet time and time again one hears it said that since we have been put into a conflicting world, we have to adapt to it. Oddly, this completely unchristian idea is most often espoused by so-called Christians, of all people. How can we expect a righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone who will give himself up undividedly to a righteous cause?

“No matter what these people say about me, my music does not glorify any image, my music is spiritual if you listen to it. It's all about emotion, it's all about life.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, Prison interviews and interrogations (1995)

Life , People , Music

“I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

Rosa Parks (1913–2005) African-American civil rights activist

Quiet Strength (2000)

Inspirational , Wise , For women , Deep

“Do not try to rescue someone who does not want to be rescued, and be very careful about rescuing someone who does want to be rescued.”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

Other

“Satanism condones any type of sexual activity which properly satisfies your individual desires – be it heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or even asexual, if you choose. Satanism also sanctions any fetish or deviation which will enhance your sex-life, so long as it involves no one who does not wish to be involved.”

Anton LaVey book The Satanic Bible

The Satanic Bible (1969)

Life , Sex

“I never cared about the money, that's not why I started acting, and I never liked the fame. The paparazzi culture is more pervasive than it used to be, kind of: 'Let's watch the actor pump gas.' It's nice not to have to worry about bills, though.
It's a cliche that money doesn't buy you happiness, but it does buy you the freedom to live your life the way you want.”

Keanu Reeves (1964) Canadian actor, director, producer and musician

Life , Money , Way , Freedom

“Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?”

Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer

“Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.”

B.K.S. Iyengar (1918–2014) Indian yoga teacher and scholar

Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 61

Way , Change , Personality

“It’s sad, y’know, what money does to people.”

Ozzy Osbourne book I Am Ozzy

Source: I Am Ozzy

Money , People , Sadness

“The overly cautious man will claim that his safety is more important than his accomplishments. While the adventurer will claim the opposite, because death does not scare him at all.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Death

“Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?
O'Brien: Of course he exists.
Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?
O'Brien: You do not exist.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.”

Pablo Neruda book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos.
"Every Day You Play" (Juegas Todos las Días), XIV, p. 35.
Variant: I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
Source: Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair) (1924)

love , Spring , Tree

“Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.”

Aleister Crowley book Diary of a Drug Fiend

Source: Diary of a Drug Fiend

Understanding

“Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis

“One size does not fit all.”

Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer

“I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time with what displeases me or hurts me. I have no patience for cynicism, excessive criticism and demands of any nature. I lost the will to please those who do not like me, to love those who do not love me and to smile at those who do not want to smile at me. I no longer spend a single minute on those who lie or want to manipulate. I decided not to coexist anymore with pretense, hypocrisy, dishonesty and cheap praise. I do not tolerate selective erudition nor academic arrogance. I do not adjust either to popular gossiping. I hate conflict and comparisons. I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities. In friendship I dislike the lack of loyalty and betrayal. I do not get along with those who do not know how to give a compliment or a word of encouragement. Exaggerations bore me and I have difficulty accepting those who do not like animals. And on top of everything I have no patience for anyone who does not deserve my patience.”

Meryl Streep (1949) American actress

Misattributed to Meryl Streep (and widely disseminated on the Internet as of August/September 2014), this quote is allegedly a translation of a text by the author José Micard Teixeira, the original of which begins (in Portuguese): "Já não tenho paciência para algumas coisas, não porque me tenha tornado arrogante..."
Misattributed

Love , Life , Hate , Friendship

“He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know.”

Laozi book Tao Te Ching

Variant: Those who know, do not speak, those who speak, do not know.
Source: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 56

Deep

“Such a splendid sunny day, and I have to go. But how many have to die on the battlefield in these days, how many young, promising lives… What does my death matter if by our acts thousands are warned and alerted. Among the student body there will certainly be a revolt.”

Sophie Scholl (1921–1943) White Rose member

As quoted by Else Gebel, in letter to Robert Scholl (November, 1946). Original German text. http://www.mythoselser.de/texts/scholl-gebel.htm

Death

“The mind might become forgetful of great deeds, but the soul does not forget anything that it considers to be beautiful and good.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Soul , Forgetting , Beauty

“Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.”

Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now

God , Way

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”

George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist

“Annabeth, you know Morse code?” “Of course.” “So does Leo.” Piper handed her the mirror. “He’ll be watching from the ship. Go to the ridge—” “And flash him!” Annabeth’s face reddened. “That came out wrong. But yeah, good idea.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Idea

“The Best for the Group comes when everyone in the group does what's best for himself AND the group.”

John Nash (1928–2015) American mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate

“Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

Truth , Knowledge

“Love sees no enemies…fear does.”

Plato (-427–-347 BC) Classical Greek philosopher

Love , Fear

“Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

People , Lie , Wealth

“Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

Perfection , Happiness

“Nature does nothing uselessly.”

Aristotle book Politics

Book I, 1253a.8
Source: Politics

Nature

“Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.”

Ulrike Meinhof (1934–1976) German left-wing militant

Published in “Vom Protest zum Widerstand” [“From Protest to Resistance” http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/docpage.cfm?docpage_id=1628&language=english], konkret http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkret, no. 5 (May 1968), p. 5.

“Few mortals know that the kingdom of God includes the kingdom of mundane fulfillments. … The divine realm extends to the earthly; but the later, illusory in nature, does not contain the essence of Reality.”

Mahavatar Babaji Hindu Yogi

Source: Autobiography of a Yogi (1946), Ch. 34 : Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas

God , Nature , Reality

“A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.”

Shigeru Miyamoto (1952) Japanese video game designer and producer

Source: Interview with Shigeru Miyamoto http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/shigeru-miyamoto-interview Eurogamer.net, published on 31 March 2010

Motivational , Idea , Problem

“A king does not kill messengers.”

Alexander the Great (-356–-323 BC) King of Macedon

As quoted in the Historia Alexandri Magni of Pseudo-Kallisthenes, 1.37.9-13
Context: Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.

“I love Leslie. She's super imaginative and creative and just full of life. And really has fun in everything she does.”

AnnaSophia Robb (1993) American actress, singer, and model

О повести «Мост в Терабитию»

Love , Life , Imagination

“So far as it goes, the distinction, between an atrocity and an act of war is valid. An atrocity means an act of terrorism which has no genuine military purpose. One must accept such distinctions if one accepts war at all, which in practice everyone does. Nevertheless, a world in which it is wrong to murder an individual and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area does sometimes make me wonder whether this planet of hours is not a loony-bin made use of by some other planet.”

George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist

"As I Please," Tribune, (31 December 1943)
As I Please (1943–1947)

War , World

“The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher

Life , Death , Question , Problem

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

For women , Courage

“If you're happy in a dream, does that count?”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

Dreams , Happiness

“In a society where you are taught to love everything, what value does that place on love?”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

Variant: When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?

Love

“The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.”

Colette (1873–1954) 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi

Men , Intelligence , Thinking

“Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.”

Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

Thinking , Time

“Strength does not come from winning.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947) actor, businessman and politician of Austrian-American heritage

From a 1982 interview with Boston Globe journalist Marian Christy. Christy, Marian. "Winning according to Schwarzenegger." https://secure.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/294151457.html Boston Globe: Boston, MA. 9 May 1982: p 51. Accessed 25 Jun 2016.
1980s
Context: Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. When you make an impasse passable, that is strength. But you must have ego, the kind of ego which makes you think of yourself in terms of superlatives. You must want to be the greatest. We are all starved for compliments. So we do things that get positive feedback.

Deep , Success , Inspirational , Powerful

“I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: The Portable Henry Rollins

Time , Loneliness , Forgetting

“When the workers of a single factory or of a single branch of industry engage in struggle against their employer or employers, is this class struggle? No, this is only a weak embryo of it. The struggle of the workers becomes a class struggle only when all the foremost representatives of the entire working class of the whole country are conscious of themselves as a single working class and launch a struggle that is directed, not against individual employers, but against the entire class of capitalists and against the government that supports that class. Only when the individual worker realizes that he is a member of the entire working class, only when he recognises the fact that his petty day-to-day struggle against individual employers and individual government officials is a struggle against the entire bourgeoisie and the entire government, does his struggle become a class struggle.”

Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution

Source: On the Foreign Policy of the Soviet State

Support , Country

“We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses.”

C.G. Jung book Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Variant: We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Change

“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.”

Christopher Morley (1890–1957) American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

Dogs

“Humankind does not submit passively to the power of nature. It takes control over this power. This process is not an internal or subjective one. It takes place objectively in practice, once women cease to be viewed as mere sexual beings, once we look beyond their biological functions and become conscious of their weight as an active social force. What's more, woman's consciousness of herself is not only a product of her sexuality. It reflects her position as determined by the economic structure of society, which in turn expresses the level reached by humankind in technological development and the relations between classes.

The importance of dialectical materialism lies in going beyond the inherent limits of biology, rejecting simplistic theories about our being slaves to the nature of our species, and, instead, placing facts in their social and economic context.”

Thomas Sankara (1949–1987) President of Upper Volta

Source: Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle

Women , Nature

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)

Leadership , People

“I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

Dreams , Sleep , Forgetting

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Inspirational , Deep , Success , Hope

“A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.”

George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist

"Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool," Polemic (March 1947) - Full text online http://orwell.ru/library/essays/lear/english/e_ltf]

“One who does not use his intelligence will not succeed and one who does not use his knowledge will have no intellect. One who understands will attain nobility and excellence, and one who is tolerant will triumph. Knowledge is a shield (against evil), truth begets honour and ignorance disgrace, understanding is distinction, generosity is salvation and good manners command love and respect.”

Ja'far al-Sadiq (702–765) Muslim religious person

Muhammad Kulayni, Usūl al-Kāfī - The Book of Intellect and Ignorance.
Regarding Knowledge & Wisdom, General

Love , Truth , Intelligence , Understanding

“We have Divine Wisdom in the mortal body. Whatever does harm to the body, ruins the House of the Eternal.”

Paracelsus (1493–1541) Swiss physician and alchemist

Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)

Wisdom , Housing

“Wise men don't need to prove their point;
men who need to prove their point aren't wise.
The Master has no possessions.
The more he does for others, the happier he is.
The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.
The Tao nourishes by not forcing.
By not dominating, the Master leads.”

Laozi book Tao Te Ching

Source: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 81 as interpreted by Stephen Mitchell (1992)

Men

“Why do you allow yourselves to be shut up?' 'Because it cannot be helped as they are stronger than women.' 'A lion is stronger than a man, but it does not enable him to dominate the human race. You have neglected the duty you owe to yourselves and you have lost your natural rights by shutting your eyes to your own interests.”

Begum Rokeya Sultana's Dream

Sultana's Dream (1905)

Women , Nature , Help

“Maybe we have to contribute ideologies to achieve the perfect utopian government. Remember, government-sponsored health care was a communist idea. Should only the rich be allowed to live long? Does that say that because a person is poor, he is a lesser human being; and doesn't deserve to live as long, because he doesn't wear a tie to work?”

Timothy McVeigh (1968–2001) American army soldier, security guard, terrorist

1990s, Letter to the Union-Sun & Journal (1992)

Health , Idea , Personality , Perfection

“We must all die!
All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when,
Nor how, so we die well; and can that man that does so
Need lamentation for him?”

John Fletcher Valentinian

Valentinian (1610–14; published 1647), Act IV, scene 4.

“Such a one does not always know what he can do, but he nevertheless instinctively feels, I am good for something! My existence is not without reason!”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

1880s, 1880, Letter to Theo (Cuesmes, July 1880)
Context: There is a great difference between one idler and another idler. There is someone who is an idler out of laziness and lack of character, owing to the baseness of his nature. If you like, you may take me for one of those. Then there is the other kind of idler, the idler despite himself, who is inwardly consumed by a great longing for action who does nothing because his hands are tied, because he is, so to speak, imprisoned somewhere, because he lacks what he needs to be productive, because disastrous circumstances have brought him forcibly to this end. Such a one does not always know what he can do, but he nevertheless instinctively feels, I am good for something! My existence is not without reason! I know that I could be a quite a different person! How can I be of use, how can I be of service? There is something inside me, but what can it be? He is quite another idler. If you like you may take me for one of those.

Feeling

“That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it.
This high man, with a great thing to pursue,
Dies ere he knows it.”

Robert Browning Men and Women

"A Grammarian's Funeral", line 115.
Men and Women (1855)
Context: That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it.
This high man, with a great thing to pursue,
Dies ere he knows it.
That low man goes on adding one to one,—
His hundred's soon hit;
This high man, aiming at a million,
Misses an unit.
That has the world here—should he need the next,
Let the world mind him!
This throws himself on God, and unperplexed
Seeking shall find him.

“A man who prays lives out the mystery of existence, and a man who does not pray scarcely exists.”

Charbel Makhlouf (1828–1898) Lebanese Maronite monk and saint

Love is a Radiant Light: The Life & Words of Saint Charbel (2019)

“Why do you sow where the field is eager to destroy the fruit? Where there are medicines of sterility? Where there is murder before birth? You do not even let a harlot remain a harlot, but you make her a murderess as well. Do you see that from drunkenness comes fornication, from fornication adultery, from adultery murder? Indeed, it is something worse than murder and I do not know what to call it; for she does not kill what is formed but prevents its formation. What then? Do you contemn the gift of God, and fight with His laws? What is a curse, do you seek as though it were a blessing? Do you make the anteroom of birth the anteroom of slaughter? Do you teach the woman who is given to you for the procreation of offspring to perpetrate killing? That she may always be beautiful and lovable to her lovers, and that she may rake in more money, she does not refuse to do this, heaping fire on your head; and even if the crime is hers, you are the cause. Hence also arise idolatries. To look pretty many of these women use incantations, libations, philtres, potions, and innumerable other things. Yet after such turpitude, after murder, after idolatry, the matter still seems indifferent to many men–even to many men having wives. In this indifference of the married men there is greater evil filth; for then poisons are prepared, not against the womb of a prostitute, but against your injured wife. Against her are these innumerable tricks, invocations of demons, incantations of the dead, daily wars, ceaseless battles, and unremitting contentions.”

John Chrysostom (349–407) important Early Church Father

St. John Chrysostom, Homily 24 on the Epistle to the Romans [PG 60:626-27] https://www.patheos.com/blogs/davearmstrong/2017/10/contraception-early-church-teaching-william-klimon.html

Money , God , Law , Dead

“The conscience has a long memory as does the person you inflicted pain upon to create the memory in the first place.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1978

Personality , Pain , Memory

“Does it ever stop? The wanting you?" "Even when I've just left ye. I want you so much my chest feels tight and my fingers ache with wanting to touch ye again.”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

Feeling

“Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?”

The cat asked, “Where do you want to go?”

“I don’t know,” Alice answered.

“Then,” said the cat, “it really doesn’t matter, does it?”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Variant: One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ was his response. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it doesn’t matter.
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Cats , Tree

“How long have you been away from the country?" Laruja asked Ibarra.

"Almost seven years."
"Then you have probably forgotten all about it."

"Quite the contrary. Even if my country does seem to have forgotten me, I have always thought about it.”

José Rizal book Noli Me Tángere

Source: Noli Me Tángere

Country

“The greatest artist does not have any concept
Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain
Within its excess, though only
A hand that obeys the intellect can discover it.”

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet

Source: I Sonetti Di Michelangelo: The 78 Sonnets of Michelangelo with Verse Translation

“What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It’s awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up.”

Ivo Andrič (1892–1975) novelist, short story writer

Sleep , Waiting , Patience

“If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?”

Karen Blixen (1885–1962) Danish writer

Children , Color , Game , Coffee

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”

Max Planck (1858–1947) German theoretical physicist

Source: Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers

Truth , Light

“Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

A New Earth (2005)
Variant: Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Past

“No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.”

Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) Catholic saint and founder of the Franciscan Order

“Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don't need to search any further for security.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

God , Lie , Search

“One swallow does not make a summer,
neither does one fine day;
similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”

Aristotle book Nicomachean Ethics

Source: The Nicomachean Ethics

Depressing , Time , Summer , Personality

“Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes).”

Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution

Knowledge , Tree

“Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”

Arthur Miller (1915–2005) playwright from the United States

As quoted in Finding Your Bipolar Muse : How to Master Depressive Droughts and Manic Depression (2006) by Lana R. Castle, p. 258

Thinking

“For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.”

Viktor E. Frankl book Man's Search for Meaning

Source: Man's Search for Meaning

World

“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Hurtful , Suffering , Help , Personality

“What does your conscience say? — "You shall become the person you are."”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Was sagt dein Gewissen?
'Du sollst der werden, der du bist.'
Variant translation: Become who you are.
It is noted here http://www.anonymityone.com/Faq97.htm, here http://www.google.it/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=%22Become%20who%20you%20are%22+Pindar+Nietzsche&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=bks and here http://www.google.it/search?num=100&hl=it&safe=off&biw=1440&bih=690&q=%22%28become+what+you+are%29+after+the+ancient+Greek+poet+Pindar.+See+Ecce+Homo+%28Nietzsche%29%22 that the phrase was first used by Pindar, and was merely re-used by Nietzsche.
Sec. 270
The Gay Science (1882)

Personality

“‎Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”

Les Brown (1945) American politician

Variant: Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Reality

“When I see someone who just follows their dream and succeeds, and just does basically what they want to do and doesn't have to answer to anyone, obviously not harming anyone, that's great.”

Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician

Dreams

“He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.”

José Rizal (1861–1896) Filipino writer, ophthalmologist, polyglot and nationalist

“While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence, which, I believe, does make the woman.”

Mary Kay Ash (1918–2001) Entrepreneur

Confidence , Strong , Self-confidence , Clothes

“A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.”

Isabel Allende book Inés of My Soul

Source: Inés of My Soul

“The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.”

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

Idea , Universe

“The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Back To Work

“Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!”

Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation

Widely attributed to Luther, but actually is an example given in 1658 book Ἑρμηνεια logica https://books.google.com/books?id=2MxlAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA228| of faulty logic. In Latin:
Si vero termini in sorite sunt causae subordinatae per accidens, sorites non valet; ut ia hoc, Qui bene bibit, bene dormit; qui bene dormit, non peccat; qui non peccat, est beatus; ergo: qui bene bibit est beatus. Vitium est, quod bene bibere sit causa per accidens somni.
Translated via Fauxtations https://fauxtations.wordpress.com/2016/08/21/drinking-and-not-sinning/:
If, however, the conclusions in the sorite are subordinate by accident, the sorites is not valid; as in this one, He who sleeps well, drinks well; he who sleeps well, does not sin; he who does not sin, is blessed; therefore, he who drinks well is blessed. The problem is that to drink well is a cause of sleep only by accident.
Disputed

Drink , Beer , Sleep

“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”

John Steinbeck book The Short Reign of Pippin IV

The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957), p. 102

Fear , Loss