Apontamentos Quotes & Sayings

Croats are not prepared for the future yet. They are still divided with the sentiments of the past. — Vinko Vrbanic

While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without your having to force it. — Nachman Of Breslov

The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money. — Adam DeVine

For the more skeptical of the Victorians, love performed some of the functions of the God whom they had lost. Faced with it, many of even the most hard-headed turned, for the moment; mystical. They found themselves in the presence of something which awoke in them that sense of reverence which nothing else claimed, and something to which they felt, even in the very depth of their being, that an unquestioning loyalty was due. For them love, like God, demanded all sacrifices; but like Him, also, it rewarded the believer by investing all the phenomena of life with a meaning not yet analysed away. We have grown used - more than they - to a Godless universe, but we are not yet accustomed to one which is loveless as well, and only when we have so become shall we realise what atheism really means. — Bertrand Russell

Just as love blinds us to imperfections in others, it magnifies those we see in ourselves. But if this is true, then the opposite must also be the case. We can take comfort in the fact that our faults will be invisible to those who love us. The success or failure of any relationship depends not just on how we feel about each other, but on how we make each other feel about ourselves. — Tonya Hurley

If you're famous enough, the rules don't apply. — Maureen Dowd

I also forgive myself. May the misfortunes of the past no longer weigh on my heart. Instead of pain and resentment, I choose understanding and compassion. Instead of rebellion, I choose the music from my violin. Instead of grief, I choose forgetting. Instead of vengeance, I choose victory. — Paulo Coelho

The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium. — David Harvey

The heart is the path to wisdom because it dares to be vulnerable in the presence of power — Terry Tempest Williams

Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere. — Honore De Balzac

Genius is its own end. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm glad you think this is funny," he says. "Come on," I say. "Tragedy is funny." "Are we in a tragedy?" he asks, smiling broadly now. "Of course. Isn't that what life is? We all die at the end. — Nicola Yoon

With ever watchful eyes and bearing scars, visible and invisible, I headed North, full of a hazy notion that life could be lived with dignity, that the personalities of others should not be violated, that men should be able to confront other men without fear or shame, and that if men were lucky in their living on earth they might win some redeeming meaning for the having struggled and suffered here beneath the stars. — Richard Wright

To be responsible, keep your promises to others. To be successful, keep your promises to yourself. — Marie Forleo