Yosif Brodskiy Quotes & Sayings

Only the gentle men are ever really strong — James Dean

I couldn't remember what life was like before I started walking. — Teju Cole

Sit with those who constantly repent, for they have the softest hearts. — Umar

I lived for the night, because I could go over to your house. It was the only thing that kept me going. You were the only thing, actually. It was ... you. — J.R. Ward

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil. — William Dampier

The comparison isn't with others; it's with your former and future selves. — Scott Barry Kaufman

We are made of stellar ash. — Carl Sagan

Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

In order for agape to flourish, I must not be afraid to change my life. If I liked what I was doing, very well. But if I did not, there was always the time for a change. If I allowed change to occur, I would be transforming myself into a fertile field and allowing the Creative Imagination to sow its seeds in me.
"Everything I have taught you, include agape, makes sense only if you are satisfied with yourself. If you are not, then the exercises you have learned are inevitably going to make you seek change. And if you do not want all of those exercises to work against you, you have to allow change to happen.
"This is the most difficult moment in a person's life
when the person witnesses the good fight and is unable to change and join the battle. When this happens, knowledge turns against the person who holds it. — Paulo Coelho