„Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.“

„Go far—too far you cannot, still the farther
The more experience finds you: And go sparing;—
One meal a week will serve you, and one suit,
Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain,
The poorer and the baser you appear,
The more you look through still.“

—  John Fletcher, The Woman's Prize

The Woman's Prize, or The Tamer Tamed (c. 1611; published 1647), Act IV, scene 5, line 199.

„He came your way
And when he had to go
There were roses growing in the snow
Silently you'll go to the shadow of your soul
And you know that it was like this before we had to go
You will never see these lights
Glowing in your nights
Until you feel this way.“

—  Nico German musician, model and actress, one of Warhol's superstars 1938 - 1988

Roses in the Snow

„You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back“

—  Paul Theroux American travel writer and novelist 1941

Вариант: You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.
Источник: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

„Rose: But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me… in every way that a person can be saved“

—  James Cameron Canadian film director 1954

Rose
Titanic (1997)
Контексте: A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson, and that he saved me in every way that a person can be saved. I don't even have a picture of him. He exists now only in my memory.

„Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people … or find a different room..“

—  Michael Dell Businessman, CEO 1965

Commencement address to University of Texas at Austin in 2003 http://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0048-dell.htm.

„A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks:

“Aren’t you tired of waiting?”

“Yes,” answers the rose, “but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.“

—  Paulo Coelho, книга Manuscript Found in Accra

Источник: Manuscript Found in Accra

„Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there was a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions-exactly which way to go and what to do to get there; it depended on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone.“

—  Leslie Marmon Silko, книга Ceremony

Ceremony (1977)

„Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.“

—  Cassandra Clare, книга City of Glass

Источник: City of Glass

„If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.“

—  Alan Bennett English actor, author 1934

"The Pith and its Pitfalls", p. 385 (1981).
Writing Home (1994)

„I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else someone who will never love you back, not the way I do.“

—  Cassandra Clare, книга City of Glass

Источник: City of Glass

„If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.“

—  Dale Carnegie American writer and lecturer 1888 - 1955

„When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for a person more distinguished than you may have been invited. If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this person your seat.’ Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least important place. But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all the other guests. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.“

—  Luke the Evangelist, Gospel of Luke

14:8-11 NIV
Gospel of Luke

„It is quite clear that you are today the one person in the world who can prevent a war which may reduce humanity to the savage state. Must you pay that price for an object however worthy it may appear to you to be? Will you listen to the appeal of one who has deliberately shunned the method of war not without considerable success?“

—  Махатма Ганди pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India 1869 - 1948

Letter addressed to Hitler. 23 July 1939 (Collected Works, vol. 70, pp. 20–21), Quoted from Koenraad Elst: Return of the Swastika (2007). (Also in https://web.archive.org/web/20100310135408/http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/fascism/gandhihitler.html)
1930s

„If invited, you would go to this person's wedding and give them a spice rack, but you would secretly hope that their marriage ends in a bitter, public divorce.“

—  Chuck Klosterman Author, Columnist 1972

Recognizing Your Nemesis

„I say: liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits, or, more expressively, not to everyone is that a limit which is a limit for the rest. Consequently, do not tire yourself with toiling at the limits of others; enough if you tear down yours. […] He who overturns one of his limits may have shown others the way and the means; the overturning of their limits remains their affair.“

—  Max Stirner, книга The Ego and Its Own

New York 1907, p. 187
The Ego and Its Own (1844)

„Interestingly enough, what you do in a relationship that works is that you actually fall in love with what they could be. They could be the person that you project onto them and fall in love with, but it's going to take a hell of a lot of work. Both parties have no shortage of flaws, so you're bringing your flaws together, and that's going to produce a lot of friction, and you are going to have to engage in a lot of dialogue before you reach that level of perfection that you originally had in the other person's eyes. But maybe you can do it. Maybe you can do it. And then you would live happily ever after.“

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

Other

„I mean, it's impossible to fake anything if you've already seen the other person in a way they'd never choose for you to. You can't go back from that.“

—  Sarah Dessen, книга What Happened to Goodbye

Источник: What Happened to Goodbye

„There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing.“

—  Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

Источник: A Visit from the Goon Squad

„You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city… you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes.“

—  Samuel R. Delany, книга Dhalgren

Источник: Dhalgren