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“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.”
― Charles Dickens

“Sooner or later...one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation.”
― Graham Greene

“Rooms don't change, ornaments stand where you place them: only the heart decays.”
― Graham Greene

“I couldn't resist the temptation to tease Pyle - it is, after all, the weapon of weakness and I was weak.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
― Mark Twain

“Той се боеше само от честни и неподкупни хора.”
― Димитър Димов

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

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

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

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“Днес бихме бродили из пейзажа на нашата младост като пътници. Ние сме обгорени от фактите, преценяваме различията като търговци и потребностите като касапи. Не сме безгрижни вече - а страхотно безразлични. Ще бъдем там - но ще има ли живот в нас?

Изоставени сме като деца, а имаме опита на стари хора, станали сме сурови, тъжни и повърхностни - струва ми се, че сме загубени.”
― Ерих Мария Ремарк, All Quiet on the Western Front

“Financial bitterness could not eat too deeply into Mack and the boys, for they were not mercantile men. They did not measure their joy in goods sold, their egos in bank balances, nor their loves in what they cost.”
― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

“Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“Rincewind trudged back up the beach. "The trouble is," he said, "is that things never get better, they just stay the same, only more so.”
― Terry Pratchett, Eric

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

“We grew up together, which is the only reason we’re friends. He’s actually got a lot of other acquaintances, too, for a few reasons. The first is that he plays soccer in winter and has mates from there. The second and main reason is that he carries on like an idiot. Have you ever noticed that idiots have a lot of friends?
It’s just an observation.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“It's not the place, I think. It's the people. We'd have all been the same anywhere else.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Again, it is for the sake of the soul that goods external and goods of the body are eligible at all, and all wise men ought to choose them for the sake of the soul, and not the soul for the sake of them.”
― Aristotle, Politics

“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
― Anton Chekhov

“I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens.
I've been knocking from the inside.”
― Rumi

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“It's a privilege to love someone, to truly love them; and while it's paradisaical if she or he loves you back, it's unfair to demand or expect reciprocity. We should consider ourselves luck, honored, blessed that we possess the capacity to feel tenderness of such magnitude and be grateful even when that love is not returned. Love is the only game in which we win even when we lose.”
― Tom Robbins, Tibetan Peach Pie