Erich Kastner Quotes

#1. You can spend your whole life planning. But once you're ready, get out there and start doing it.

Taylor Momsen

#2. Researchers from Britain's Keele University have found that swearing after an injury may help alleviate pain. Evidently, the pain that you feel is inversely proportional to the number of middle names you give Jesus.

Stephen Colbert

#3. Lisa had confessed and Mommy had forgiven her. It had been a long, complicated confession, followed by a brief absolution for all the sins committed--a look, a kiss--nothing more was needed...Oh how wonderful it was to have told the truth at last! How free she felt, as free as air!

Erich Kastner

#4. You can build something beautiful from stones that are put in your way.

Erich Kastner

#5. I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.

Camille Claudel

#6. I used to live in a box until I remembered that I wasn't born in a box...

Daniela Nikolova

#7. Determination is all very well if you want to jump off a tower. But will power is not enough when it comes to cooking beef and noodles.

Erich Kastner

#8. no matter how many wrong choices we've made in the past, we can always decide to make the right ones today. The past need not determine one moment of the future. The

Lisa Wingate

#9. Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#10. But the drawings are not created only to be sold.

Christo

#11. It is always the same. Whether you are walking or going by train, the way always seems shorter the second time than the first. (And that is true of distances that are not to be measured in miles and yards.)

Erich Kastner

#12. The only people who attain power are those who crave it.

Erich Kastner

#13. It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.

Maria Edgeworth

#14. If life has hit out at you, and you weren't prepared for it, a little housefly has only to cough and it will knock you flat

Erich Kastner