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“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”

“Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.”

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
É uma das bênçãos dos velhos amigos que você pode se dar ao luxo de ser estúpido com eles.

“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”

“In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.”

“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.”

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”

“It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.”

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”

“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”
Aprecie as tuas visões e os teus sonhos, pois são os filhos da tua alma, as plantas das tuas últimas realizações.

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
E assim prosseguimos, botes contra a corrente, impelidos incessantemente para o passado.

“Beauty is not caused. It is.”

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”

“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”

“The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there.”

“You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.”

“It is easy to live for others; everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.”

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”

“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”

“It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.”
Não é suficiente que façamos o nosso melhor; às vezes temos que fazer o que é preciso.

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”

“I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.”

“Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.”

“Isn't it pretty to think so.”
Não é bonito pensar tanto.

“My best friend is one who brings out the best in me”

“we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”

“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.”

“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.”

“You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.”

“Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.”

“It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.”

“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him”

“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but… life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”

“Reason is immortal, all else mortal.”

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn”

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”
A distância mais curta entre dois pontos é muitas vezes insuportável.

“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.”

“Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.”

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”
É um pensamento curioso, mas é só quando você vê pessoas parecendo ridículas que você percebe o quanto você as ama.

“Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.”

“There is always something left to love.”

“Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.”

“He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.”

“It takes two to make an accident.”

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
Talvez todos desta porcaria de mundo estejam com medo do outro

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”
Qual a razão de viver se não for para tornar a vida menos difícil para os outros?

“The simplest things are often the truest.”

“People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.”

“To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.”

“Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.”

““I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one."
— George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)
"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
— Churchill's response”

“If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.”

“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”
Meu médico me disse para parar de ter jantares íntimos por quatro. A não ser que hajam três outras pessoas.

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”

“I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.”
Eu não queria te dar um beijo de despedida - esse era o problema - eu queria te dar uma boa noite - e há muita diferença.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
A injustiça num lugar qualquer é uma ameaça à justiça em todo o lugar.

“Our chief want in life, is somebody who shall make us do what we can.”
A principal necessidade de nossas vidas é alguém que nos obrigue a fazer o que podemos fazer. Eis a tarefa do amigo.

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”

“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!”

“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”

“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”

“I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.”

“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic?… Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”
Você se orgulha de sua mágoa? Isso faz você parecer grande e trágico? ... Bem, pense nisso. Talvez você esteja atuando em um bom palco com apenas você de público.

“I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.”

“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”

“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”

“Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”
Nada me cansa, a não ser fazer o que não gosto.

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”
Apesar de viajarmos o mundo para encontrar a beleza, devemos carregá-la conosco ou nós não a encontraremos.

“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
Toda a minha vida olhei para as palavras como se as estivesse a ver pela primeira vez.

“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”

“There are two ways of spreading light.. to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”

“Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.”

“Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.”

“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”

“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”

“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”
A paz não pode ser alcançada pela violência, ela só pode ser alcançada através do entendimento.

“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”

“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.”

“The human spirit must prevail over technology.”

“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”

“A girl doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her”
Nenhuma mulher deve esquecer que ela não precisa de ninguém que não precise dela

“I cannot live without books.”

“What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course”

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
Sem ambição, ninguém começa nada. Sem trabalho, ninguém termina nada. O prêmio não será enviado a você. Você tem que vencer para recebê-lo.

“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”

“Art is the magic mirror you make to reflect your invisible dreams in visible pictures. You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.”

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”