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“Women love only those whom they do not know!”

“A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience falls away from the soul, which becomes anew such as it was once and will surely be again.”

“Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.”

“Look, I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you.”

“If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.”

“Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.”

“A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.”

“Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. ”
Лучше любить и потерять, чем совсем не любить.

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
Личный пример — не просто лучший метод убеждения, а единственный.

“Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75.”
Многие люди умирают в 25 лет, а в могилу попадают только в 75.

“You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.”

“I think pressure’s healthy, and very few can handle it.”

“Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.”

“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”

“The lives of most men and women are blighted by problems they cannot solve. Many events in our lives are the result of things beyond our control. While it is comforting to think, “I’m in charge,” in truth most changes effected by individuals are very limited in scope.”

“Truth never triumphs—its opponents just die out.”

“Everything you've ever wanted is on other side of fear.”

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.”

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.”

“True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.”

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”

“Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.”

“When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.”

“What matters is the value we've created in our lives, the people we've made happy and how much we've grown as people.”

“No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.”

“Truth is powerful and it prevails.”
Истина сильна, и она побеждает.

“You can do it if you believe you can!”

“A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.”

“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”

“First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we’ve realized it’s a brochure.”

“Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.”

“We make our own fortunes and we call them fate.”

“Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

“Growth is possible only if there is imperfection.”

“The only difference between the spiritual and physical world lies in having the bodies, but the souls are common in all beings.”

“When knowledge is put into practice that’s when wisdom is born within a person.”

“We cannot define the true meaning of the word patience without becoming impatient ourselves.”

“When you realise that there is no democracy in Heaven, you will end up advising the people to obey even the unjust law. Peace over freedom.”

“War damages, the fabric of civilisation not by the destruction it causes (the net effect of a war may even be to increase the productive capacity of the world as a whole) nor even by the slaughter of human beings, but by the stimulated hatred and dishonesty.”

“But it takes a war to make map-reading popular.”

“Nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity.”

“Every one of us is going to die eventually, but we as a species will stick around for a while. That’s why I think accumulating money, fame or power is irrelevant. Serving humanity is the only thing that really matters in the long run.”
Каждый из нас рано или поздно умрет, но мы как вид останемся еще на какое-то время. Вот почему я считаю, что деньги, слава или власть не имеют никакого значения. Служение человечеству - единственное, что действительно имеет значение в долгосрочной перспективе.

“Truth and expansion go hand in hand. Truth creates growth. Lies and illusion prevent it.”

“They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades.”

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
У каждого святого есть прошлое, у каждого же грешника есть будущее.

“Everything popular is wrong.”
Все популярное - зло

“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”

“In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
Иногда утром вы поднимаетесь с постели и думаете, что вы не собираетесь этого делать, но вы смеетесь внутри - вспоминая все времена, когда вы чувствовали это.

“Don't mind anything anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.”
Не обращайте внимания на то, что кто-то говорит вам о ком-то еще. Суди всех и всё за себя.

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

“There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.”

“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.”

“Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.”
Несмотря на то, что дорога была каменистой, мне, конечно, приятно.

“We cannot tear a single page from our life, but we can throw the whole book into the fire.”

“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”

“Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.”

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
Чтобы вернуть свою молодость, я бы делал в мире все, кроме упражнений, раннего вставания или уважения.

“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.”

“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”

“if you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.”
Если желаешь сиять подобно солнцу, сперва гори как оно.

“You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.”
Никто не знает, что такое жизнь, пока не проживет свою собственную.

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”
Мне нравятся мужчины с будущим и женщины с прошлым.

“Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.”

“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
Вот все, что вам нужно знать о мужчинах и женщинах: женщины сумасшедшие, мужчины глупые. И главная причина, по которой женщины сходят с ума, заключается в том, что мужчины глупы.

“I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.”
Постоянно пытаюсь оставаться в состоянии непонимания, просто из-за выражения лица в этот момент.

“Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain”

“If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”

“Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.”

“Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”

“Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.”

“She loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It differentiated her from the others”

“Never confuse movement with action.”
Никогда не путайте движение с действием.

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
Худшее одиночество - не чувствовать себя комфортно с собой.

“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world”

“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”
Я смог бы поверить в Бога только в одном случае, если бы тот знал толк в танце.

“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
Сила в том, чтобы разорвать человеческий разум на части и снова соединить их в новые формы на ваш выбор.

“I love those who can smile in trouble…”
Я люблю тех, кто может улыбаться в беде ...

“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”

“I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.”

“You go to Heaven once you've been to Hell”

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
Никогда не сомневайтесь в том, что небольшая группа вдумчивых, преданных своему делу граждан может изменить мир. На самом деле это единственное, что когда-либо меняло мир.

“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
Я уверен, что вселенная полна разумной жизни. Но она слишком разумна, чтобы прийти сюда.

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud!”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”
Мы - это то, что мы привыкли делать. Поэтому совершенство - это не действие, а привычка.

“My feet is my only carriage.”

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
Все, что мы слышим, - это мнение, а не факт. Все, что мы видим, является перспективой, а не правдой.

“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
Дурак видит не то же самое дерево, что видит мудрец.

“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
Такт — умение описать других так, как они видят себя сами.

“Do something worth remembering.”

“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”

“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”
Плакать - значит уменьшать глубину горя.

“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.”

“Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.”

“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”
Красивые молодые люди - это природная случайность, а красивые старики - это произведения искусства.