"Sometimes people don't wanna hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."
"One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power."
"No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone."
"There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one let's go, one soon loses control of the head too."
"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than whose who think differently."
"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."
"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
"Man is the cruelest animal."
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
"Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders."
"Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire."
"Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you."
"The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell."
"You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?"
"He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures."
"I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses."
"So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's."
"The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man."
(Man as in humans. I know because I am German like him and know the original German quote)
"Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tender towards others. In both ways it improves our character."
"Everything the state says is a lie and everything it has, it stole."
"To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence."
"I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; the third, a good deed."
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Quotes
RandomI will as the title states write in different Quotes I have collected over the years in my little mental notebook. I wrote them down to read them when I need them, like when I feel sad. most of them are motivation and some because I really like them.
