Posted by: Carlo Sina
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. (from "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. (from "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
This was life: a sourly sip.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.
Things do not change; we change.
[...] your Personal Legend. [...] It's what you've always wanted to do. Everyone, in the prime of their youth, know what their Personal Legend is. In that period of life everything is clear, everything is possible, and men are not afraid of dreaming and desiring all that they would like to see done in life. But then, as time goes by, a misterious force starts to try and demonstrate how impossible it is to actually realize the Personal Legend. They prepare your spirit and your will. Because a great truth exists on this planet: whoever you are or whatever you do, when you wish something willfully, and because this wish was born before the Universe's soul. That represents your mission on earth. [...]
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
They run as if they had a fire under their backsides seeking for something they can't find.
It's basically fear of facing oneself,
it's basically fear of being alone.
Instead I fear the crowd...
After life has slapped you profusely you must get used again to a more delicate touch.
In the end, my life is the history of the attempts that I did to keep my feet grounded without stopping lifting my eyes to the sky.