Quotes to inspire and reflect

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

The revolution is not a tea party.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

Let the coming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.

I am Cuban, Argentine, Bolivian, Peruvian, Ecuadorian, etc... You understand.

Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers. W.

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

He is able who thinks he is able.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it.

The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number.

Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.

The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops? No, but the kind of man the country turns out.

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.

Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief. A.

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life, and to help you release your happiness to others.

Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.

In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind. J.

We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important. J.

If you lose money you lose much, if you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around the middle.

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds...

Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of all fears.

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.