Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
We must make of our own life like an art work is made. The life of an intellect man must a work of his. The true superiority is all here.
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We must make of our own life like an art work is made. The life of an intellect man must a work of his. The true superiority is all here.
More than once have I been drunk, my passions are not far from delirium, and of these two things I do not feel sorry because I have learnt to understand that all extraordinary men that have done something great, and that seemed impossible to achieve, have been considered in every era to be drunks or mad. But, even in everyday life it is unbearable to hear say, every time that someone is about to do a free, noble and unexpected action "That man is drunk, he is mad!"
Be ashamed of yourselves, you sober and wise men!
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
They us revolutionaries are romantic. Yes it's true in a different way, we're those who are willing to give up they're life for what we believe in.
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.
The one who doesn't fall isn't strong, but it's the one that by falling has the strength to get back up.
The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived.
What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'
'Cats don't have names,' it said.
'No?' said Coraline.
'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.
Your sons aren't your sons,
they're sons and daughters of life itself.
You give them life, but you don't create them.
They're close to you, but they're not yours.
You can give them all your love, but not your ideas,
because they have their own ideas.
You can house their body, but not their
soul,
because their soul lives in the house of what'll occur,
where you aren't supposed to go, not even through dreams.
You can try to look like them, but not that they
look like you,
because life doesn't go back and doesn't stop
at yesterday.
You're the arch that shoots your sons towards tomorrow.