Daniel Pomian > Daniel's Quotes

“When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action which produces further confusion, further misery. We fill our hearts with blueprints for world reform and do not look to that one resolving factor which is love.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“In the pairs of mothers and their adult children that I have seen, mothers who cared for their children out of obligation are then cared for in their elderly years by their adult children out of a similar obligation.”
― Jasmin Lee Cori, The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed

“Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.'
'How pleasant then to be insane!”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories

“We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the useful, the one we end up by being put in a coffin.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“Când te aștepți cel mai puțin, în viață apare un eveniment sau ceva ce te schimbă radical pentru câteva zile, poate săptămâni sau, poate, pentru toată viața. Ceva ce vine de nicăieri, se îndreaptă tot spre nicăieri și lasă o dâră de melancoie în sufletul tău.”
― Elena Druță, Fiind imagine. Eseuri din adolescență

“Ceaiul s-a răcit, amărăciunea din el a devenit mai intensă. Dar îmi place. E ca în viață...”
― Elena Druță, Fiind imagine. Eseuri din adolescență

“Pentru că doar tu poți aprecia adevărata valoare a tăcerii care se instaurează în interiorul tău.”
― Elena Druță, Fiind imagine. Eseuri din adolescență

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“To love someone means to see them as God intended them.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“To start on the road of heart cleansing, acknowledge your disappointments and give them expression. Take time with your grief, past and present. As you meditate on the heart chakra, old images and feelings will come up. Live through them again. Fall apart. Your body will tell you when you are ready to open up again.”
― Fay Simpson, Lucid Body: A Guide for the Physical Actor

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

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

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“It’s a luxury to be the owner of one’s time. I think it’s one of the greatest luxuries human beings can afford themselves.”
― Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers

“You're no longer where you were, but you are everywhere that I am.”
― Valérie Perrin, Cambiare l'acqua ai fiori

“You must learn to be generous with your absence to those
who haven’t understood the importance of your presence.”
― Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

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