top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."
People
"But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting."
Experience
"And so too, in later years, when I began to write a book of my own, and the quality of some sentences seemed so inadequate that I could not make up my mind to go on with the undertaking. I would find the equivalent in Bergotte. But it was only then, when I read them in his pages, that I could enjoy them; when it was I myself who composed them, in my anxiety that they should exactly reproduce what I had perceived in my mind's eye, and in my fear of their not turning out "true to life," how could I find time to ask myself whether what I was writing was pleasing!"
Creativity
"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."
Happiness
"Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments."
Nature
"The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity."
Psychology
"People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked."
Emotion
"What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us."
Love
"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."
Time
"And like an aviator who rolls painfully along the ground until, abruptly, he breaks away from it, I felt myself being slowly lifted towards the silent peaks of memory."
Memory
More
"We may fight for the cause of international peace because we are very fond of fighting."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If we fought wars with laughter instead of bullets, you would die laughing instead of just dying."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Hope for peace!Dream for peace!Act for peace!Live in peace!Life is for peace!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Focus on peace not on war.Love, live, share and care."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Fret not, fret not."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The sweetest melody that playson starry nights and wintry days,most soothing to my listening earsand calming to beleaguering fears,I call a symphony on air-the song of sweet, still silence rare."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In silence there is a perfection which any toil injures."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Let us make the earth peaceful to enjoy the joy and beauty of spring."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In the company of ignorance, be silent...or join the suffering."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Peace comes at a price, often only at the end of a hard-fought battle."
Author Name
Personal Development
bottom of page