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“What's meant to be will always find a way”
― Trisha Yearwood

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can't help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year. I feel I know you so well that I couldn't have known you better if we'd been friends for twenty years. You won't fail me, will you? Only two minutes, and you've made me happy forever. Yes, happy. Who knows, perhaps you've reconciled me with myself, resolved all my doubts.

When I woke up it seemed to me that some snatch of a tune I had known for a long time, I had heard somewhere before but had forgotten, a melody of great sweetness, was coming back to me now. It seemed to me that it had been trying to emerge from my soul all my life, and only now-

If and when you fall in love, may you be happy with her. I don't need to wish her anything, for she'll be happy with you. May your sky always be clear, may your dear smile always be bright and happy, and may you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“On the train we swapped seats, you wanted the window and I wanted to look at you.”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“... оти отсуството е повидливо од присуството: кај сакатиот веднаш се забележува отсуството на ногата, но кај здравиот не се забележува присуството нејзино!”
― Венко Андоновски, Вештица

“Гледам и слушам повеќе одошто говорам, оти никогаш не можеш да искажеш толку мудрости колку што можеш да премолчиш слабоумности.”
― Венко Андоновски, Вештица

“- Што ме гледаш така?“
- Па векови, еони, те немам видено, иако сите атоми ми се сеќаваат на тебе!”
― Венко Андоновски, Вештица

“Од гледна точка на дрвото, сечењето дрво е злостор. Од гледна точка на хартијата, сечењето дрво е - создавање.”
― Venko Andonovski, Вештица

“Љубов постои. Не секаде, не секогаш, но постои. Тоа е најважниот личен вселенски настан: како пронаоѓање на опашеста ѕвезда, твоја опашеста ѕвезда која никој друг не ја гледа.”
― Venko Andonovski, Вештица

“Пламенот кога се дели, се умножува како и љубовта, мил мој; оган е љубовта, оти колку повеќе го даваш, толку повеќе го имаш.”
― Venko Andonovski, Вештица

“И кога палат книги, тие не ги уништуваат мислите, туку само хартијата на кои тие мисли се запишани.”
― Venko Andonovski, Вештица

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that may be crushed in a moment's carelessness. If I had ever believed it, I no longer did.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success