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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"I have been wounded like this since about half past eight this morning and I will tell you how it happened."
"Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is."
"When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something."
"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it."
"Find the portals to harmony and moments of balance on what you love to do and what you choose not to do."
"Camouflage with a defensive grace and bounce back with joy."
"The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself."
"The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons."
"You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that."
"True sense of humour and true, deep happiness never depend on the after effects of destructive vices."
"Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive."
"As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions."
"How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole."
"When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it."
"Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me."
"But so far I have the feeling that the chances are there to repeat last year's season."
"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers."
"The unparalleled truth shall always outlive the lies. Goodness can prevail depending on the unwavering courage of those who hold the unparalleled truth.In a very corrupt culture, I am not so sure that justice can always prevail because the power lies on who is manipulating and who are being manipulated by the most powerful hand that can destroy you, kill you or spare your life."
"Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree."
"How often do we truly feel accepted?Are we aware of the collateral effects inflicted when we reject someone or something? How do we move on from a state of constant rejection?How do we gratefully accept rejection?With acceptance, we grow not in a constant state of rejection."
"Have a heart which does not trample down simplicity and humility."
"I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of."
"Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices."
"Have the capacity to adapt to change, it's your healthy growth, intelligently and emotionally.Our life can be full of extrinsic surprises, your flexibility is a key when you accept changes."
"The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects."
"I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch."
"Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts."
"A heart has its multiple facets of daily music. Respect a genuine good heart."
"I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?"
"True closeness respects each other's space.You can never get any measuring instrument to compare and set on a pedestal how one truly cares for you in any kind of relationship.There is a big difference between closeness and dependency, compassionate, honest, generous, humble heart thanprejudiced, jealous, insecure heart.Each one should respect the growth of a relationship as we all evolve in a world interconnected with many hearts, minds and souls."
"I have had only two men in four years while he appears every week on the newspapers with another woman."
"Be a gift, a light, a blessing as far as the eye can see to answer a call as well as a genuine, compassionate heart can reach."
"One says also, it is one of the most faithful men in Hollywood, and makes again more interesting it equal."
"There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell."
"Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films creates & encourages labelling, discrimination & racism."
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