Heldenleben Quotes & Sayings

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. — Chanakya

It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old. — Alison Gopnik

Art is often born from inner struggle. Artists are plagued by impulses they must express. Contentment does not seek action but struggle always seeks release, and for the creative it can take the form of art. — Eric Gibbons

I've got you. I promise. — Katie McGarry

I felt this beauty rather strangely. It was not desire, nor ecstacy, nor enjoyment that Masha
excited in me, but a painful though pleasant sadness. It was a sadness vague and undefined
as a dream. For some reason I felt sorry for myself, for my grandfather and for the
Armenian, even for the girl herself, and I had a feeling as though we all four had lost
something important and essential to life which we should never find again. — Anton Chekhov

Attraction is not an option. — Neil Strauss

If you don't believe in what you're selling, neither will your prospect. — Frank Bettger

Love is invisible, and comes in and goes out as he likes, without anyone calling him to account for what he does. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Just a single cord is enough to be tangled — Munia Khan

He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in. — Plautus

Desire is the intangible quality that has more impact on success than talent, education, or IQ. You can't see desire, but you can feel its presence, and see its results in the lives of successful people. — Robert Fulghum

Life ... had been defined as motion; man's life was purposeful motion; what was the state of a being to whom purpose and motion were denied, a being held in chains but left to breathe and to see all the magnificence of the possibilities he could have reached, left to scream "Why?" and to be shown the muzzle of a gun as sole explanation? — Ayn Rand