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“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”

“Myths which are believed in tend to become true.”

“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”
Лучше ничего не делать, чем быть занятым ничегонеделанием.

“The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.”

“Wisdom begins in wonder.”

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavours to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

“Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes.”

“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”

“If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.”

“I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?”

“Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.”

“You have to believe in yourself.”

“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.”
Человек, который делает все, что ведет к счастью, зависящим от себя, а не от других людей, принял по-настоящему лучший план для счастливой жизни. Это человек умеренный, мужественный и мудрый.

“Well begun is half done.”

“It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.”

“When in doubt, don't.”

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.”
Посреди зимы я наконец узнал, что во мне живет неукротимое лето.

“Time is the wisest counsellor of all.”

“I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.”

“Love and friendship exclude each other.”

“All know the way; few actually walk it.”

“Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.”

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
Есть люди, у которых есть деньги, а есть богатые люди.

“Genuine sincerity opens people's hearts, while manipulation causes them to close.”

“It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.”

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”

“Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.”

“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”

“I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.”

“If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.”

“Be as you wish to seem.”

“We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.”

“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”

“Life consists of small things. They become great if you love.”
Жизнь складывается из мелочей. Они становятся великими, если вы любите.

“The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.”

“Above all, do not forget your duty to love yourself.”

“Mistake is something that happens to everyone in life.”

“Our dedication to good actions as human beings is what most nourishes our souls”

“You must be ready to sacrifice your health if you wish to gain wealth. That is simply an unavoidable law of nature.”

“Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth.”

“Behold, I am Jesus Christ. I am the Father and the Son.”

“Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.”

“You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.”

“For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”

“The beauty of empathy is that it doesn’t demand that you agree with the other person’s ideas.”

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

“People often refuse to see, accept and tell the truth. Unfortunately, because of this, they and everyone around them are prevented from growth.”

“You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
Ты никогда не сможешь сделать добро слишком рано, потому что никогда не знаешь, как скоро будет слишком поздно.

“Will you love me in December as you do in May?”

“Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.”
У женщин в этом мире намного лучше, чем у мужчин; Есть гораздо больше вещей, запрещенных для них.

“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”

“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.”

“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”

“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”
Из всех животных только человек по-настоящему жесток. Только человек может причинять боль ради собственного удовольствия.

“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.”
Как часто я лежал на чуждой крыше под дождем, думая о доме.

“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.”
Предрассудки — это бремя, которое путает прошлое, ставит под угрозу будущее и делает настоящее недоступными.

“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”

“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
Основа оптимизма - явный террор.

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
Посредственность не знает ничего выше себя, но талант мгновенно признает гения.

“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”
Будьте мудрее других людей, если можете; но не говорите им об этом.

“And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?”

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
У нас есть искусство, чтобы не умереть от правды.

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.”
Я предпочитаю быть собой с риском навлечь насмешки со стороны, нежели притворяться и испытать на себе собственное отвращение.

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
Некоторые приносят счастье везде, куда бы они ни пошли; другие, когда они идут.

“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”
Как бы ни была проста женщина, если на ее лице написаны правда и честность, она будет прекрасна.

“Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.”

“There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.”

“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.”
Место противостояния значения не имеет. Важно лишь, что вы были там... и стояли сами.

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
Единственный способ отделаться от искушения — поддаться ему.

“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”

“To "catch" a husband is an art; to "hold" him is a job.”

“Art is what you can get away with.”
Искусство это то, что вам может сойти с рук.

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
После хорошего обеда можно простить кого угодно, даже своих родственников.

“The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.”
Легче всего на свете - быть собой. Труднее всего - быть тем, кем хотели бы видеть тебя другие люди. Не позволяй им ставить себя в такое положение.

“You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.”
Вы должны принять все, что придет, и единственное, что важно, это то, что вы встречаете это с лучшим, что вы можете дать.

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
Дело не в том, на что вы смотрите, а в том, что вы видите

“I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.”
Я все больше и больше стараюсь быть собой, относительно мало заботясь о том, одобряют ли люди или не одобряют.

“I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.”

“The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.”

“You can observe a lot by watching.”

“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
Тот, кто научится летать однажды, должен сначала научиться ходить, бегать, лазать и танцевать; нельзя летать.

“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
Всякий раз, когда человек допускает глупость, он делает это из самых благородных побуждений.

“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.”
Дела говорят не только громче слов, но и несравнимо более редко.

“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”

“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”

“If you trust in yourself… and believe in your dreams… and follow your star… you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

“All good things are wild and free.”
Все хорошее - безумно бесплатно.

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
Гнев является кислотой, которая может нанести больше вреда сосуду, в котором она хранится, чем тому, на кого она изливается.

“My witness is the empty sky.”
Мой свидетель - пустое небо.

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”

“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
Я буду готовиться, и однажды мой шанс придет.

“Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.”
Будь сумасшедшим, но научись быть таковым, не привлекая внимания. Будь достаточно храбрым, чтобы жить иначе.

“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions — as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
Мыслитель видит свои действия как эксперименты, а вопросы - как попытки что-то выяснить. Успех и неудача для него - прежде всего ответы.

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”