Don't ever let anybody hold you back. I don't care how strong they are or how tough they think they are. You look them straight in the eye and you say: "I'm better than you. I'm stronger than you. And I'm going to win."
Summertime, I think, is a collective unconscious. We all remember the notes that made up the song of the ice cream man; we all know what it feels like to brand our thighs on a playground slide that's heated up like a knife in a fire; we all have lain on our backs with our eyes closed and our hearts beating across the surface of our lids, hoping that this day will stretch just a little longer than the last one, when in fact it's all going in the other direction.
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea ...
Something has changed within me Something is not the same I'm through with playing by rules Of someone else's game, Too far to go back to sleep, Too late for second guessings – It's time to trust my instincts, Close my eyes and leap
Jeder Mensch hat auch seine moralische backside, die er nicht ohne Not zeigt, und die er, so lange als möglich mit den Hosen des guten Anstandes bedeckt.
In diesem Land ist es nur noch nicht zum Krieg gekommen weil wir noch immer die andere Backe hinhalten. Ob das nun ein Segen oder mit Feigheit zu bewerten ist möchte ich offen lassen.
Hans-Joachim SchmidtNichtkommerzielle Verwendung des Spruches mit Autorenangabe ausdrücklich erlaubt
Wie steifleinen, wie hausbacken, wie selbstsüchtig, wie eng, wie englisch!
Heinrich HeineDer Spruch darf mit Autorenangabe frei verwendet werden, da die urheberrechtliche Schutzfrist abgelaufen ist († 17. Februar 1856) Zur Autorenbiographie
Never look back at your past, unless you're going that way.
Henry David ThoreauDer Spruch darf mit Autorenangabe frei verwendet werden, da die urheberrechtliche Schutzfrist abgelaufen ist († -06.05.1862) Zur Autorenbiographie
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back, May the sun shine warm upon your face, May the rains fall soft upon your fields, And, until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.
How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep…that have taken hold.
All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea - whether it is to sail or to watch it - we are going back from whence we came.
Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.
Sometimes you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read that book.
