Van Nguyen > Van's Quotes

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”
― Toni Morrison

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“Nhưng cô đơn là sự tối cần của người viết, nó là một điều kiện hàng đầu của nhà văn. Không một người viết hay nào tôi biết mà không cô đơn. Không một thần tượng văn chương nào của tôi mà không bị cô đơn dày vò. Và để chạy trốn nỗi cô đơn trong giao tiếp đơn thuần mặt nhìn mặt, tay nắm tay, việc viết văn đã dẫn tôi đến sự cô đơn khác, đó là ở giữa đám đông mà họ không thấy tôi, hoặc họ thấy một cái gì đó giống tôi, họ tưởng là tôi, nhưng tôi đang đứng ở một chỗ khác, một mình, chờ một nhịp tim đồng cảm. Khi người ta bằng mọi cách chạy trốn sự cô đơn thì tôi, và những đồng nghiệp của tôi lại nuôi cô đơn, cho nó ăn để duy trì sự cô đơn tồn tại trong người mình cho cái gọi là sáng tạo văn chương.”
― Nguyễn Ngọc Tư

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

“Society lives by faith, and develops by science.”
― Henri-Frédéric Amiel

“Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve,
I want to tie the two arms together,
And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.”
― Robert Bly, The Night Abraham Called to the Stars: Poems

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.”
― Marsha Norman, The Fortune Teller

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

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis

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

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”
― Audrey Hepburn

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche