Ilze Vilks > Ilze's Quotes

Showing 1-18 of 18
sort by

  • #1
    Giorge Leedy
    “A WATERY BLISS

    As busy as an ice cream freezer,
    On a Sunday getting hotter,
    Happy is the honey eater-
    The busy ocean otter,
    Floating alongside Teter,
    On a sea full of water.”
    Giorge Leedy, Uninhibited From Lust To Love

  • #2
    S.J. Watson
    “I am floating, I thought, completely without anchor, at the mercy of the wind.”
    S.J. Watson

  • #3
    “living only for the moment, savouring the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms, and the maple leaves, singing songs, drinking wine, and diverting oneself in simply floating, unconcerned by the prospect of imminent poverty, buoyant and carefree, like a gourd carried along with the current of the river...”
    Asai Ryoi, Tales of the Floating World

  • #4
    Criss Jami
    “Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.”
    Criss Jami, Killosophy

  • #5
    Erik Pevernagie
    “Comes the tipping point in life, when we decide to a ‘stop and search’ and our emotional police bring us to a standstill. This allows us to scan all the little details in the spectrum of our being; scour all fuzzy or cryptic elements that are floating around in our mind and restore the fault lines in the cluttered tale of our life. ("The world was somewhere else")”
    Erik Pevernagie

  • #6
    Lao Tzu
    “Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #7
  • #8
    Charles Reznikoff
    “I will walk by myself
    and cure myself
    in the sunshine and the wind.”
    Charles Reznikoff, The Poems Of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975

  • #9
    Terry Pratchett
    “If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”
    Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

  • #10
    Terry Pratchett
    “Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them.”
    Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

  • #11
    Neil Gaiman
    “I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #12
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly.
    The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation.
    "I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!”
    Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

  • #13
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied.
    'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently.
    'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!”
    Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

  • #14
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick!”
    Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

  • #15
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!”
    Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

  • #16
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “But here is a question that is troubling me: if there is no God, then, one may ask, who governs human life and, in general, the whole order of things on earth?
    – Man governs it himself, – Homeless angrily hastened to reply to this admittedly none-too-clear question.
    – Pardon me, – the stranger responded gently, – but in order to govern, one needs, after all, to have a precise plan for a certain, at least somewhat decent, length of time. Allow me to ask you, then, how can man govern, if he is not only deprived of the opportunity of making a plan for at least some ridiculously short period, well, say, a thousand years , but cannot even vouch for his own tomorrow? And in fact, – here the stranger turned to Berlioz, – imagine that you, for instance, start governing, giving orders to others and yourself, generally, so to speak, acquire a taste for it, and suddenly you get ...hem ... hem ... lung cancer ... – here the foreigner smiled sweetly, and if the thought of lung cancer gave him pleasure — yes, cancer — narrowing his eyes like a cat, he repeated the sonorous word —and so your governing is over! You are no longer interested in anyone’s fate but your own. Your family starts lying to you. Feeling that something is wrong, you rush to learned doctors, then to quacks, and sometimes to fortune-tellers as well. Like the first, so the second and third are completely senseless, as you understand. And it all ends tragically: a man who still recently thought he was governing something, suddenly winds up lying motionless in a wooden box, and the people around him, seeing that the man lying there is no longer good for anything, burn him in an oven. And sometimes it’s worse still: the man has just decided to go to Kislovodsk – here the foreigner squinted at Berlioz – a trifling matter, it seems, but even this he cannot accomplish, because suddenly, no one knows why, he slips and falls under a tram-car! Are you going to say it was he who governed himself that way? Would it not be more correct to think that he was governed by someone else entirely?”
    Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

  • #17
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “Свежесть бывает только одна - первая, она же и последная.”
    Bulgakov M.A., Мастер и Маргарита. Белая гвардия

  • #18
    Hermann Hesse
    “But every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again.

    That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of every consideration. In each individual, the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.”
    Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend



Rss
All Quotes



Tags From Ilze’s Quotes

bliss
eater
floating
freezer
honey
hot
ice-cream
ocean
otter
sea
sunday
water
mercy
sadness
wind
drinking
nature
pleasure
ukiyo
gloating
humility
idle
movement
paralysis
pride
silence
success
superficial
victory
allow
being
cluttered
cryptic
decide
details
emotional
fault-lines
fuzzy
life
mind
police
restore
scan
scour
somewhere-else
spectrum
standstill
stop-and-search
tale
tipping-point
world
emotions
feelings
reality
attitude-of-gratitude
attitude-of-gratitude-grateful
being-happy
being-positive
being-real
being-realistic
broaden
broaden-horizons
broaden-the-mind
broadening-of-knowledge
broadening-the-mind
broadens
changes
changes-in-life
changes-in-thought
changes-in-your-life
changes-of-our-lives
contentment
emotions-and-attitude
emotions-and-control
emotions-communication
emotions-control-people
emotions-inspiration
emotions-quotes
emotions-that-bind
enough
expressed
germany-kent
germany-kent-quote
germany-kent-quotes
grateful
grateful-attitude
grateful-heart
grateful-outlook
grateful-quotes
grateful-soul
gratefulness
gratefulness-quotes
gratitude
gratitude-attitude
gratitude-happiness-inner-peace
gratitude-is-a-choice
gratitude-life-happiness-success
gratitude-quotes
gratitude-works
hope-guru
human
human-being
human-condition
human-development
human-emotions
human-nature
humanity-and-society
living-with-joy
more-than-enough
outlook
outlook-and-attitude
outlook-in-life
peace
peace-of-mind
perspective
perspective-on-life
perspectives
perspectives-on-gratitude
powerful
powerful-people
powerful-quotes
powerful-women
powerful-words
the-hope-guru
the-moment
inspirational
poetry
self-improvement
self-love
sunshine
cats
humor
witch
chaos
cooperation
organization
persuasion
pets
willfullness
alcohol
bulgakov
vodka
dostoevsky
fame
immortality
reputation
mortality
eyes
lies
tongue
truth
death
destiny
god
demian
journey-of-life
self-awareness