Carlos Burle Quotes & Sayings

Audentes fortuna iuvat. Fortune favors the bold. — Wynne Channing

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. — Leo Tolstoy

No choice but stand. Somehow up and stand. Somehow stand. That or groan. The groan so long on its way. No. No groan. Simply pain. Simply up. A time when try how. Try see. Try say. How first it lay. Then somehow knelt. Bit by bit. Then on from there. Bit by bit. Till up at last. — Samuel Beckett

I no longer know what the Lord wants of us... Even what we're doing here seems pointless to me! What's the use of the books I've brought with me? All those bookcases in the house? The things we learn, the things we discuss? Not so long ago, I was convinced that cultivating our minds would help us change the course of this world. I told myself, 'We women should change. Then we might be able to curb the folly of men.' I don't believe that now. As soon as I leave Magdala, as soon as I spend a day in the streets of Tarichea, I get the feeling we're becoming more and more learned and more and more useless. — Marek Halter

Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself? — Clarice Lispector

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Practices were tough. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar