If it had not been for these things, I might have lived out my life talking at street corners to scorning men. I might have died, unmarked, unknown, a failure. Now we are not a failure. This is our career and our triumph. Never in our full life could we hope to do such work for tolerance, for justice, for man's understanding of man as now we do by accident. Our words — our lives — our pains — nothing! The taking of our lives — lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish-peddler — all! That last moment belongs to us — that agony is our triumph.
Epikur und Montaigne, Goethe und Spinoza, Plato und Rousseau, Pascal und Schopenhauer. Mit diesen muss ich mich auseinandersetzen, wenn ich lange allein gewandert bin, von ihnen will ich mir Recht und Unrecht geben lassen [...]
There ist a saying in Tibetan: "Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength." No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.
If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not to costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case; you may have to fight when there is nohope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.
But even when our hopes give way to reality, and we finally have to surrender to the truth, it just means we’ve lost to today’s battle, not tomorrow’s war.
When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.
Some wars result in complete and total victory. Some wars end with a peace offering. And some wars end in hope... But all these wars are nothing compared to the most frightening war of all. The one you have yet to fight.
Every time she laughs she hopes he's watchig. Not so that he sees she's happy but maybe, just maybe he'll fall for her smile just as hard as she fell for his.
Young people are very cynical now, you know? Very cynical! They've been taught cynicism, they've been - they've been bred cynicism. So, I think it's important to give them hope and realism in the same package, you know? You can be realistic but there should be - there should be hope in it. Because hope's what we're about. If we don't have hope then we don't go on.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge — myth is more potent than history — dreams are more powerful than facts — hope always triumphs over experience — laughter is the cure for grief — love is stronger than death.
For us there is no victory, there are only battles. And in the end the best you can hope for is to find a place to make your stand. And if you're very lucky you find someone willing to stand with you...
Es sind namhafte Philosophen als Vorgänger [meiner Lehre] anzuführen, vor allem der große Denker Schopenhauer, dessen unbewusster "Wille" den seelischen Trieben der Psychoanalyse gleichzusetzen ist. Derselbe Denker übrigens, der in Worten von unvergesslichem Nachdruck die Menschen an die immer noch unterschätzte Bedeutung ihres Sexualstrebens gemahnt hat.
Sigmund FreudDer Spruch darf mit Autorenangabe frei verwendet werden, da die urheberrechtliche Schutzfrist abgelaufen ist († 23. September 1939) Zur Autorenbiographie
Ich weiß nur noch einen Schriftsteller, den ich betreff der Ehrlichkeit Schopenhauer gleich, ja noch höher stelle: Das ist Montaigne. Dass ein solcher Mensch geschrieben hat, dadurch ist wahrlich die Lust, auf dieser Erde zu leben, vermehrt worden.
Friedrich NietzscheDer Spruch darf mit Autorenangabe frei verwendet werden, da die urheberrechtliche Schutzfrist abgelaufen ist († 25. August 1900) Zur Autorenbiographie
Just realize that things aren't ever what you hoped they'd be. Not ever. For anybody. The only thing that separates one kind of person from another is that there are some who stay angry about it and there are some who accept what comes their way.
This is the way you left me I'm not pretending Nohope, no love, no glory No happy ending This is the way that we loved Like it was forever Then live the rest of our lifes But not together
I hope that mankind will at length, as they call themselves responsible creatures, have the reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats
Benjamin FranklinDer Spruch darf mit Autorenangabe frei verwendet werden, da die urheberrechtliche Schutzfrist abgelaufen ist († 17. April 1790) Zur Autorenbiographie
I wish you the best, I wish you nothing less Than everything you've ever dreamed of I hope that you find love along the way But most of all, I wish you'd stay.
Orange and green, it doesn't matter, United now, don't shatter your dream. Scatter the seeds of peace over our land, so we can travel, hand in hand, across the bridge of hope.
