Araksya Topchyan > Araksya's Quotes

“Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.

Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. These meetings are waiting for us, but more often than not, we avoid them happening. If we are desperate, though, if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“Alice: How long is forever?
White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.”
― Lewis Carroll

“Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.”
― Lewis Carroll, The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition

“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
― Lewis Carroll

“Goodbye," said the fox. "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

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”
― Antoine De Saint-Exupery

“I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“He who must travel happily must travel light.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”
― Lao Tzu

“To understand the limitation of things, desire them.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found.”
― Lao Tzu

“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum. ”
― Erich Maria Remarque

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
― Erich Fromm

“Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.”
― Erich Fromm

“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult...Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.”
― Erich Fromm

“Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.”
― Erich Fromm

“There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.”
― Erich Fromm, Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics

“If I perceive in another person mainly the surface, I perceive mainly the differences,that which separates us. If I penetrate to the core, i perceive our identity, the fact of our brotherhood. This relatedness from center to center - instead of that from periphery to periphery - is 'central relatedness'.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I loved her not for the way she danced with my angels, but for the way the sound of her name could silence my demons”
― Christopher Poindexter

“She writes things with her movements that I for the life of me could never write with a pen.”
― Christopher Poindexter

“Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?”
― Benjamin Franklin

“One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
― Henry Miller

“If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.”
― Henry Miller