Elena > Elena's Quotes

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
― Herbert Bayard Swope

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“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

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”
― Elinor Glyn

“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Love is the absence of judgment.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are
Those who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken words
Those who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you
Those who love me do not know that their love brings you to my heart”
― R. Tagore

“My heart, the bird of the wilderness,
has found its sky in your eyes.
They are the cradle of the morning,
they are the kingdom of the stars.
My songs are lost in their depths.
Let me but soar in that sky,
in its lonely immensity.
Let me but cleave its clouds
and spread wings in its sunshine.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, The Gardener

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
― Albert Einstein

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“So there you have it: two things & I can't bring them together & they are wrenching me apart. These two feelings, this knowledge of a world so awful, this sense of a life so extraordinary—how am I to resolve them?”
― Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish

“Не отивай
далече,
не отивай
далече, тъга.
Моля те, не отивай
далече.
Аз не мога
без твоята
бавна далечност.
Аз не мога
без твоето
пренебрежение.
Не мога
без твоите
стъпки,
с простреляни
улици,
с небе, разгромено
от ужас.
Не отивай
далече,
не отивай, тъга.
Аз те моля,
не мога
без теб.”
― Иван Пейчев

“Защо те обичам толкова много, а ти толкова малко мене? Като човешка сълза във вълната, като обло камъче в планината. Като път до пропастта, като вулкан до огъня на номадите, Като църква до Бога. Обичам те толкова много, а ти толкова малко мене. Като затворник през лятото, аз съм твоят затворник през лятото. Като иконата на святото, ти си моята икона на святото. Там, където свършват зад ъгъла всички религии, започваш ти. Защо те обичам толкова много? Ти си черешовите небеса, взрив на нарциси, алабастров дъжд, канелен пясък, крясък на шарена птица, очите на бъдещо момче, препълнени с блясък и ухание . Светлината и стената, а между тях живите и останалите. Ти си нова надежда за вечно обичане, ти си прекрасното и необяснимо привличане между непознати ангели в залива на „Утре“. Аз съм обичта, обикновената, ти си величието на една малка мечта, ти си надолу по реката, надолу по реката. Зеленото петно в градината на Дявола, надолу по реката. Защо те обичам толкова много? Като книжна лодка, с написаното на нея стихотворение, отиващо към нетлението, като зрънце слънце към затъмнението. Като дъжд в реката, като длъжник пред олтара, като шепа пръст на земята, като жълта пчела в небесата, като кама в ръката на Господ и изгубен ключ сред нещата, без смисъл и толкова просто като малко момиче, като халка от верига. Не ти ли стига толкова много да те обичам, а ти мене толкова малко? Не ти ли стига да те обичам, като сън преди вечност и молба без колене. Толкова много да те обичам, а ти толкова малко мене?”
― Мартин Карбовски

“Night does not show things, it suggests them. It disturbes and surprises us with its strangeness. It liberates forces within us which are dominated by our reason during the daytime.”
― Brassai

“My images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality. My only aim was to express reality, for there is nothing more surreal than reality itself. If reality fails to fill us with wonder, it is because we have fallen into the habit of seeing it as ordinary.”
― Brassaï, Brassaï, Paris

“I've always felt that the formal structure of a photo, its composition, was just as important as tje subject itself... You have to eliminate every superfluous element, you have to guide your own gaze with an iron will.”
― Brassaï, Brassaï, Paris

“I don't invent anything. I imagine everything... most of the time, I have drawn my images from the daily life around me. I think that it is by capturing reality in the humblest, most sincere, most everyday way I can, that I can penetrate to the extraordinary.”
― Brassaï, Brassaï, Paris

“If you take your inspiration from nature, you don't invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something. But still, everything passes throught your imagination. What you produce at the end is very different from the reality you started with.”
― Brassaï, Brassaï, Paris

“There are two gifts which every man of images needs to be a true creator: a certain sensitivity to life, to living things, and at the same time, the art which will enable him to capture that life in a certain specific way. I'm not talking about a pure aesthetics...”
― Brassaï, Brassaï, Paris

“When you shoot a lot you stand a better chance, but then you are subjecting yourself to the law of accident―if accident has a law. I prefer to try and if necessary fail. When I succeed, however, I am much happier than I would be if I shot a million pictures on the off-chance. I feel that I have really made it myself, that picture, not won it in a lottery.”
― Brassaï