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Pericles:
  • Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

    • Francis Bacon:
  • Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

    • Mayakovsky:
  • Art is not a mirror which reflects the world, but a hammer with which we give it shape.

    • Jim Morrison:
  • A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

    • Ella Fitzgerald:
  • Just don't give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

    • Gabriela Mistral:
  • You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.

    • Foscolo,:
  • The glory of mighty men is given one quarter by their boldness, two quarters by luck and a quarter by their crimes.

    • Henry Miller:
  • The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.

    • Nizami:
  • What we are and what we possess is but a loan- and that not for long! Do not clutch what has been given to you, for joy and desire to possess are but nails fastening you to the perishable world.

    • Violeta Parra:
  • Thanks to life, for what has given me

    • Erich Fromm:
  • Man’s main task is to give birth to himself.

    • Francis Bacon:
  • He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

    • Gandhi:
  • The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

    • Pittacus:
  • Forgiveness is better than revenge

    • Horace:
  • Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. ---- Whatever advice you give, be short.

    • Talleyrand:
  • A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.

    • Hector Berlioz:
  • Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

    • Panait Istrati:
  • The mind was not given to us for understanding the inexplicable, but to avoid stumbling upon the trees.

    • Truman Capote:
  • Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

    • Levi-Strauss:
  • The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

    • Nino Rota:
  • I do what I can to give everyone a moment of happiness. This is at the heart of my music.

    • Sartre:
  • There is only one day left, always starting over. It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

    • Laozi:
  • Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

    • Pindar:
  • Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.0.99

    • Ella Fitzgerald:
  • Forgive me if I don’t have the words. Maybe I can sing it and you’ll understand.

    • John Steinbeck:
  • What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

    • Lorca:
  • The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.

    • Walt Whitman:
  • Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

    • Dickens:
  • Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

    • Plotinus:
  • “I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.”

    • Talleyrand:
  • Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

    • Virginia Satir:
  • So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

    • Dostoevsky:
  • Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

    • Montessori:
  • At some given moment it happens that the child becomes deeply interested in a piece of work; we see it in the expression on his face, his intense concentration, the devotion to the exercise.

    • Truman Capote:
  • There is only one unpardonable sin- deliberate cruelty. All rest can be forgiven.

    • Nadine Gordimer:
  • People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

    • Viktor Frankl:
  • What is to give light must endure burning

    • Raymond Queneau:
  • Time is money, so give me some money to think.

    • Novalis:
  • Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

    • Goethe:
  • Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment.

    • Exupery:
  • Give yourself; you will receive more than you give.

    • Antonio Porchia:
  • I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received.

    • Graham Bell:
  • Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

    • Jane Austen:
  • They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

    • Umberto Eco:
  • Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

    • Edna Milley:
  • My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.

    • Elytis:
  • “If a separate personal Paradise exists for each of us, mine must be irreparably planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars, by people who see their confiscated justice given back, and by birds that even in the midst of truth of death insist on singing in Greek and saying eros, eros, eros.”

    • Saadawi:
  • I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

    • Emma Goldman:
  • Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

    • Montessori:
  • When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, ’I want to do it!’ But in our schools, which have an environment adapted to children’s needs, they say, ‘Help me to do it alone.

    • Spinoza:
  • The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.

    • Paul Eluard:
  • Your eyes in which I travel, Have given to signs along the roads A meaning alien to the earth.

    • Jesus:
  • Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

    • Viktor Frankl:
  • Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

    • Norman Mailer:
  • Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

    • Aeschylus:
  • It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

    • Hippocrates:
  • If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

    • Voltaire:
  • God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

    • Robespierre:
  • To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

    • Skinner:
  • A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

    • Montessori:
  • The satisfaction which they find in their work has given them a grace and ease like that which comes from music.

    • Schopenhauer:
  • Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

    • Freddie Mercury:
  • Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

    • Akhmatova:
  • Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to you in waking dreams.

    • Tagore:
  • Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

    • Benjamin Franklin:
  • The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

    • Heinrich Heine:
  • God will forgive me. It's his job.

    • Calderon:
  • What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

    • Thomas Paine:
  • A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.

    • Thomas Mann:
  • Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

    • Thales:
  • It's easy to give advice to others
    It's difficult to know yourself .

    • Aristotles:
  • Pleasure in the job gives perfection in the work.

    • Plato:
  • We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark, the tragedy is when a man is afraid of the light.

    • Erich Fromm:
  • Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

    • Valery Paul:
  • The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

    • Washington:
  • Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

    • Khalil Gibran:
  • It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.

    • Georges Braque:
  • It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible

    • George Eliot:
  • “It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.”

    • John Milton:
  • Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

    • Lamartine:
  • If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

    • Alexander Pope,:
  • To err is human; to forgive is divine.

    • Maria Kallas:
  • There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

    • Jack Kerouac:
  • I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

    • Omar Khayyam:
  • As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others.

    • Vonnegut:
  • I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

    • Henry Thoreau:
  • Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

    • Thomas Mann:
  • In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius

    • Dorothy Parker:
  • But I don't give up; I forget why not.

    • Pericles:
  • The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

    • Cicero:
  • Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

    • Ovid:
  • Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

    • Anne Frank:
  • Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

    • Lenin:
  • Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

    • Alfred Adler:
  • Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

    • Krishnamurti:
  • In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

    • Durant Will:
  • Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

    • John Keats:
  • I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

    • Khalil Gibran:
  • You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

    • Maxim Gorky:
  • Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

    • Machiavelli:
  • The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

    • Shakespeare:
  • God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

    • de Sade,Marquis:
  • “What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.”

    • Buddha:
  • Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

    • Khalil Gibran:
  • Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself, Love possesses not nor would it be possessed: For love is sufficient unto love.

    • Bertrand Russell:
  • Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give

    • Anton Chekhov:
  • Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

    • Jane Austen:
  • Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

    • Goethe:
  • There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

    • Ovid:
  • Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

    • Shakespeare:
  • When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

    • Napoleon:
  • “If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.”

    • Unamuno:
  • We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

    • Nietzsche:
  • He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

    • Igor Stravinsky:
  • What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

    • Rochefoucauld:
  • One forgives to the degree that one loves.

    • Michelangelo:
  • A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

    • Pablo Picasso:
  • Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

    • Hermann Hesse:
  • I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

    • Oscar Wilde:
  • Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

    • Jane Austen:
  • I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

    • Chanel:
  • Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.

    • Michelangelo:
  • As you give out so shall toy receive.

    • Benjamin Franklin:
  • “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

    • Sartre:
  • Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.

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