Maya > Maya's Quotes

“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

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

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
― Douglas Adams

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
― Joseph Heller

“It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard

“Culture is not something you put on like a ready-made suit of clothes, but a nourishment you absorb to build up your personality, just as food builds up the body of a growing boy; it is not an ornament to decorate a phrase, still less to show off your knowledge, but a means, painfully acquired, to enrich the soul.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Ten Novels and Their Authors

“Большинство людей рождается в таком месте, которое им совершенно не подходит, судьба просто обожает такие шутки.”
― Max Frei, Волонтеры вечности

“отсутствие взаимопонимания с вышеупомянутыми окружающими – это, вероятно, такой специальный сертификат душевного качества: пока вас никто не понимает, можете быть уверены, что вы на более-менее правильном пути”
― Max Frei, Энциклопедия мифов. Подлинная история Макса Фрая, автора и персонажа. Том 1. А-К

“всякий час отличается от прочих, он может оказаться куда короче или, наоборот, длиннее, чем положено, и никогда заранее не знаешь, насколько вместительный час поступил в твое распоряжение”
― Max Frei, Энциклопедия мифов. Подлинная история Макса Фрая, автора и персонажа. Том 1. А-К

“называя тебя «оверсайдером», я имел в виду, что дистанция между тобой и всем остальным настолько велика, словно ты из иллюминатора космического корабля за нами подглядываешь. Без особого, впрочем, интереса…”
― Max Frei, Энциклопедия мифов. Подлинная история Макса Фрая, автора и персонажа. Том 1. А-К

“Если к вам придет ангел с неба, добрая фея с волшебной палочкой, интеллигентный бес с прейскурантом на бессмертные души, золотая рыбка с новым корытом наперевес, или любой другой потенциальный исполнитель желаний, просите вдохновения, мой вам совет. Остальное приложится. А если не приложится, вы и не заметите.”
― Max Frei, НяпиZдинг, Сэнсэе

“Это самое страшное — знать, что может быть лучше, чем есть…”
― Max Frei, Волонтеры вечности