All Quotes By Tag: Life

“At the point where he, today’s Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so real melted away now before his eyes and turned into something trivial and often disgusting.And the further he was from childhood, the nearer he got to the present day, the more trivial and dubious his pleasures appeared. It started with law school. That had retained a little something that was really good: there was fun, there was friendship, there was hope. But in the last years the good times had become more exceptional. Then, at the beginning of his service with the governor, some good times came again: memories of making love to a woman. Then it became all confused, and the good times were not so many. After that there were fewer still; the further he went the fewer there were.Marriage. . .an accident and such a disappointment, and his wife’s bad breath, and all that sensuality and hypocrisy! And the deadlines of his working life, and those money worries, going on for a year, two years, ten, twenty – always the same old story. And the longer it went on the deadlier it became.’It’s as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That’s how it was. In society’s opinion I was heading uphill, but in equal measure life was slipping away from me…And now it’s all over. Nothing left but to die!”

“Your greatest regrets in life will not come from your past failures; they would come from remembering the amount of time you spent in pursuing vain things.”

“When you stand on top of that mountain and you look out, you will know that you will never again look back.”

“What are the four ‘D’ steps that ensure success?1) DREAM2) DESIRE3) DETERMINATION4) DESTINATIONFollow these four ‘D’ steps, never giving up or doubting yourself along the way, and you will become the person you were meant to be. And that’s YOU!”

“Tyrants don’t become a success.They become obsessed!”

“The more risk you can take upfront in life, the better off you will be later.”

“Le persone che ho incontrato, quelle con cui sono entrata in contatto… Tutti quanti, anche se hanno paura, anche se soffrono e non trovano una via d’uscita, cercano qualcosa. Un passo alla volta, con determinazione, facendosi coraggio, spronandosi a vicenda e sostenendosi tentano di andare avanti.Solo io non riesco a muovermi di un passo.Per me, il tempo si è fermato.”

“Never again the music blown as brightlyOff of my heart as foam blown off a wave;Never again the melody that lightly Caressed my grief and healed the wounds it gave.Never again–I hear my dark thoughts clashingSullen and blind as waves that beat a wall–Age that is coming, summer that is going,All I have lost or never found at all.”

“Avanti! Devo fare un passo avanti! M… Muoviti, tempo della mia vita!”

“A weakness is a strength on overdrive!”

“The Best Things In Life Aren’t So Sweet But Their Results Are Sweeter!”

“If God would help any man, He will make him know and understand what vanity is early in life.”

“But I can sit here with my dwindling days and look at what I think is important in life. I have both the time – and the reason – to do that.”

“She must be rich who can foregoAn hour so jewelled with delight,She must have teasuries of joyThat she can draw on day and night,She must be very sure of heaven–Or is it only that she feelsHow much more safe it is to lackA thing that time so often steals.”

“If you want your life to be successful, you must look inward. You must change how you think before your life can change. You change your thinking. You change your actions. You change your life.”