Ivan Totev > Ivan's Quotes

“And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.”
― Jonah Lehrer, Imagine: How Creativity Works

“I am a part of all that I have met.”
― Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson

“Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts”
― Jose Saramago

“Scientia potentia est.

Knowledge is power.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
― J.G. Ballard

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“На света има безброй видове любов, но никога не се повтарят.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories

“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
― Rob Reiner

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

“The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.”
― Henry Murger

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“Няма прошка за този, в когото сме повярвали, когато се окаже, че той самият не вярва в себе си.”
― Радослав Парушев, Смъртта не е за всеки

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis

“The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.”
― Jean Shepherd

“I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“How slow life is, how violent hope is.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

“I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.”
― Edith Sitwell

“There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.”
― Norman Mailer

“Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.”
― William Steig, Dominic