Quotes - Nuri (Mexico, 09, Mexico) Showing 1-25 of 25

#1

“Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.”
― Gary Paulsen, Hatchet

tags: living, patience, thinking, waiting

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#2

“The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.”
― Confucius

tags: futility, knowledge, religion

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#3

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

tags: futility, pessimism

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#4

“It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator

tags: day, days, dejan-stojanovic, fleetness, futile, futility, literature, literature-quotes, poetry, poetry-quotes, quotes, quotes-to-live-by, stories, telling, the-creator, thoughts, time, wisdom

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#5

“It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

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#6

“I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented.
“Love does not make you a fool.”
“He didn’t love me back.”
“That does not make you a fool, either.”
“Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?”
“Sometimes never.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

tags: hurt, love

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#7

“Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

tags: inspirational

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#8

“Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said.
Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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#9

“Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.”
― Milan Kundera, Life is Elsewhere

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#10

“The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.”
― Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves

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#11

“I have no mission. No one has.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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#12

“Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: love, metaphors

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#13

“For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: lies, public, truth

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#14

“But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: writing

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#15

“Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare various decisions.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: 241

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#16

“Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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#17

“I have a strong will to love you for eternity.”
― Milan Kundera, Immortality

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#18

“Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.”
― Milan Kundera

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#19

“We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.”
― Milan Kundera

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#20

“The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

tags: guitar, music

73 likes

#21

“Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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#22

“Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.”
― Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves

tags: life

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#23

“Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read its message much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of the cup.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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#24

“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

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#25

“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

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