Crnjanski Knjige Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road. — Margaret Atwood

Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin. — John Calvin

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves. — Gertrude Atherton

The heart is the instrument of love it refutes lies and embrace love — Marcelle Hinkson

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. — Lord Chesterfield

When any person harms you, or speaks badly of you, remember that he acts or speaks from a supposition of its being his duty. Now, it is not possible that he should follow what appears right to you, but what appears so to himself. Therefore, if he judges from a wrong appearance, he is the person hurt, since he too is the person deceived. For if anyone should suppose a true proposition to be false, the proposition is not hurt, but he who is deceived about it. Setting out, then, from these principles, you will meekly bear a person who reviles you, for you will say upon every occasion, "It seemed so to him."
... — Epictetus

Energy wasted on negative ends. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We can't allow ouselves to be depresses or discouraged. There are people who depend on us, things to accomplish. We only have a little bit of time in this world before death swallows us up. — Frederick Lenz