Octavian Paler Quotes

#1. If we are not sensible about this, in our ideas of wealth creation we may completely destroy the planet - which we are already doing in many ways.

Jaggi Vasudev

#2. When I got home from the Second World War, mu Uncle Dan clapped me on the back, and he said, "You're a man now." So I killed him. Not really, but I certainly felt like doing it.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. Because by the time you finally see each other, you're catching up only on the big things, because it's too much bother to tell about the little things. But the little things are what make up life.

Jenny Han

#4. After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.

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#5. Funny enough, I sit on my porch all day, wave and smile at everyone. Some of them aren't sure, some smiles right back, some come back later and say; "This morning you made my day, had the best day all week, thank you for that!" Smile and wave, that's all it takes

Martin R. Lemieux

#6. We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.

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#7. The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying.

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#8. The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'

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#9. Time is a beast who has the immense patience to swallow everything.

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#10. A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

D.H. Lawrence

#11. A life without love is like a year without spring.

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#12. I think God runs the show. Completely. Life proves it every day: He runs the show

Mariska Hargitay

#13. Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#14. Death is the only real thing from life.

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#15. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

Jules Verne

#16. In full light we are not even a shadow.

Antonio Porchia

#17. Next to the highest peak of happiness, there's the deepest gap of pain

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#18. When love, that dandelion fluff, that always comes and goes with the first wind thread, will pass on to your door, then you will know you met me ...

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#19. There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live ...

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#20. Make sure your Belief system leaves room for you to Be Life!

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#21. The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.

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#22. The happiest Christian homes I know are those given to hospitality, where neighbors feel at home, where young people are welcome, where the elderly are respected, where children are loved.

Billy Graham

#23. Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

Jodie Foster

#24. She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.

Cormac McCarthy