Quotes - Ivan Ivanov (Dobrich, 40, Bulgaria) Showing 1-30 of 165

#1

“Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy.”
― Anton Chekhov, About Love and Other Stories

tags: happiness, love

132 likes

#2

“I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

tags: gender

1490 likes

#3

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

1818 likes

#4

“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?”
― Bob Hope

tags: christmas

562 likes

#5

“I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.”
― Harlan Miller

tags: christmas

45 likes

#6

“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
― Leonard Woolf

1566 likes

#7

“This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: humor

161 likes

#8

“I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret.”
― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

110 likes

#9

“Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
― Eleanor Hodgman Porter

2605 likes

#10

“One eye sees, the other feels.”
― Paul Klee

tags: art

1571 likes

#11

“Tell me a story of deep delight.”
― Robert Penn Warren

1217 likes

#12

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

tags: life, peace

10247 likes

#13

“To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.”
― Charlie Chaplin

tags: inspirational

503 likes

#14

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
― Moliere

tags: inspirational, patience

2687 likes

#15

“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

tags: happiness, life, sea

2159 likes

#16

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

148387 likes

#17

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: open-mindedness, simile

1498 likes

#18

“Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson

464 likes

#19

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
― Colette

tags: enthusiasm, foolishness, silliness, wisdom

3943 likes

#20

“It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

tags: curiosity

770 likes

#21

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

tags: life

9166 likes

#22

“Man is what he reads.”
― Joseph Brodsky

tags: man, read, reading

71 likes

#23

“There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
― Washington Irving

3620 likes

#24

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

3799 likes

#25

“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

3053 likes

#26

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: history, rome, soul, thoughts, wisdom

2138 likes

#27

“Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: history, latin

499 likes

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