„We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?“
— William Golding British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate 1911 - 1993
Lord of the Flies
„Everything we do we choose. So what is there to regret? You are the person you chose to be.“
— Paul Arden, Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite
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„Why do we weep once we know that everything will be alright? We weep because the only way everything could ever be alright is in fiction. We weep because what we've seen can't be true, no matter how badly we wish it were. We weep at the truth.“
— Адам Левин singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer from the United States 1979
The Instructions
„You gotta make a change. Its time for us as a people to start making some changes, lets change the way we eat, lets change the way we live, and lets change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so its on us, to do what we gotta do to survive.“
— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996
„To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will--we all do. If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. "We can't win," we moan. "They won't let us win.“
— Ben Carson 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon 1951
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
„We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.“
— Swami Vivekananda Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher 1863 - 1902
„Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...“
— Roald Dahl British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter 1916 - 1990
Matilda
„cats choose us; we don't own them“
— Kristin Cast American writer 1986
„It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.“
— Jane Austen English novelist 1775 - 1817
Sense and Sensibility
„To be great, be whole;
Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.
Be whole in everything. Put all you are
Into the smallest thing you do.
So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor
Because it blooms up above.“
— Fernando Pessoa Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher 1888 - 1935
Poems of Fernando Pessoa
„We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.“
— Hunter S. Thompson American journalist and author 1937 - 2005
The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
„We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.“
— Will Durant American historian, philosopher and writer 1885 - 1981
„If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?“
— Frans de Waal Dutch primatologist and ethologist 1948