Zelenovich Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you're sane. — Brandi Carlile

The major events in our lives receive the entire spotlight, but ultimately your life will be defined by the same handful of choices you make each day. — Chris Matakas

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn. — Alexander Smith

Time is of no account with great thoughts. They are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author's minds, ages ago. — Samuel Smiles

when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come — Anonymous

The concept of emotional or spiritual survival has an honorable history, but it does invite self-indulgence. In my own case, the worst I ever survived was severe personal and political confusion, the temptation to various sorts of craziness and a couple of bad acid trips. It felt pretty horrendous at the time, and some of it was even dangerous, but Auschwitz it wasn't. — Ellen Willis

A spider had no special skill other than building its web, and no lifestyle choice other than sitting still. It would stay in one place waiting for its prey until, in the natural course of things, it shriveled up and died. — Haruki Murakami

Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book. — J.K. Rowling

But virtue, by the bare statement of its actions, can so affect men's minds as to create at once both admiration of the things done and desire to imitate the doers of them. The goods of fortune we would possess and would enjoy; those of virtue we long to practise and exercise. We are content to receive the former from others, the latter we wish others to experience from us. Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen, than it inspires an impulse to practice, and influences the mind and character not by a mere imitation which we look at, but by the statement of the fact creates a moral purpose which we form. — Plutarch

She (Daria) has Sergei's wide and ready smile, so beautiful to me. — Ekaterina Gordeeva