Great people about poetry, poets. Quotes from great writers about life

Well-known English writer. Years of life: from 1812 to 1870. Many of his novels were subsequently filmed. It was thanks to his works that the concept of “English humor” was born as an expression of sharp, sarcastic humor with subtle shade aristocracy.

American by birth, Jack London is the author of hundreds of adventure novels and short stories. In terms of the power of depicting nature, animals and human actions at a critical moment in life, he has no equal. The writer took his compelling stories from his own difficult life.

A native of Ireland, the son of rich and famous parents. Playwright, poet, outrageous esthete, talented playwright, author of numerous essays and fairy tales. All of his plays in the late 1890s were staged on theater stages London. In his works he ridiculed the immorality and vices of aristocratic society.

Famous Kyrgyz writer who wrote in Kyrgyz and Russian languages, Hero of the Kyrgyz Republic (1997), people's writer Kyrgyz USSR (1974), Hero Socialist Labor(1978), member of the CPSU since 1959. Every person should listen to the quotes of Aitmatov Chingiz, because these are very smart phrases.

Popular American writer and philosopher, creator of the philosophical movement of objectivism. Your first story on English language- “The Husband I Bought” - Rand wrote in 1926, this was the first year of her life in the United States. Ayn Rand's quotes show her attitude towards life values and people.

Popular German writer XX century, most of his works were published posthumously. His unique works are capable of evoking strong disturbing feelings in readers, which is a unique phenomenon in world literature. Franz Kafka's quotes are riddled with various criticisms and teachings.

Famous Colombian writer and journalist. Laureate Nobel Prize in literature 1982. Representative literary direction « magical realism" In 2012 he was awarded the “Order of Honor” for his contribution to strengthening friendship between peoples Russian Federation and Latin America. Quotes from Gabriel Garcia Marquez can really be taken into account by anyone.

Cult Brazilian writer. In total he wrote 16 books, total circulation which exceeds 300 million. He gained popularity in Russia after the book “The Alchemist,” which was in the top bestsellers for a very long time. Quotes by Paulo Coelho encourage you to act in life with optimism and not be afraid to look for something new.

Mikhail Nikolaevich Zadornov is a popular satirist writer, born in 1948, in Jurmala. Playwright, accepted and a member of the Russian Writers' Union. Is the author large quantity books. Among them are works of diverse genres - essays, notes and plays, stories.

Russian writer, literary critic, worked as a censor for a significant part of his life, contributing to the publication of works by Turgenev, Nekrasov, and Pisemsky. A native of Siberia, his parents were merchants, he traveled a lot around the world. Working all his life as an official, he devoted everything free time literary creativity.

Modern Russian writer, philosopher, author of numerous essays, novels, novellas and short stories, awarded literary prizes. He is engaged in Buddhist practices, leads a very secluded lifestyle, and often travels around the East. He communicates with the public via the Internet, never appears at fashion events, being a native resident of Moscow. In 2001, he was recognized as the best foreign writer in Germany.

Main character novel by F.M. Dostoevsky. Being a strong and proud person, under the pressure of difficult life circumstances he commits a double murder, which he justified with the theory of “saving 100 lives at the cost of one life of a harmful pawnbroker.” Romantic and man with pure soul, deeply worried about violence even against animals, he takes what happened hard.

World-famous Russian writer, author of psychologically profound works that people read in different countries. A great expert on the human soul, passions and weaknesses of people. Lived a life full of trials, but all the time I believed that human soul will triumph over violence and sinfulness.

Popular Russian writer, Japanese scholar, literary critic, translator, public figure. Your artistic literary works publishes under the pseudonyms Boris Akunin, Anna Borisova and Anatoly Brusnikin. Akunin's quotes will be interesting to any person, as they are very wise and truthful.

You should write either about what you know very well, or about what no one knows.
Strugatsky Arkady Natanovich and Boris Natanovich

Poems are successful if they are created with spiritual clarity.
Ovid

A beautiful verse is like a bow drawn through the sonorous fibers of our being. The poet makes our thoughts sing within us, not our own. By telling us about the woman he loves, he delightfully awakens in our souls our love and our sorrow. He's a magician. By understanding him, we become poets like him.
Anatole France

Philosophy is not poetry, but poetry in its highest manifestation is philosophy.
Ilya Shevelev

Poetry is the only thing that makes me purer and more courageous.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A true poet dreams in reality, but it is not the object of his dreams that controls him, but he, the object of his dreams.
Charles Lamb

The source of poetry is beauty.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

Poetry has one amazing property. She returns the word to its original, virgin freshness. The most erased, completely “spoken” words by us, which have completely lost their figurative qualities for us, living only as a verbal shell, begin to sparkle, ring, and smell fragrant in poetry!
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky

Our sacred craft has existed for thousands of years... With it, even without light, the world is bright. But no poet has ever said that there is no wisdom, and there is no old age, and maybe there is no death.
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova

A poet is a philosopher of the concrete and a painter of the abstract.
Victor Hugo

Those who write darkly either unwittingly betray their ignorance or deliberately hide it. They write vaguely about what they vaguely imagine.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov

Young poets pour a lot of water into their ink.
Johann Goethe

For many people, writing poetry is a growing pain of the mind.
Georg Lichtenberg

Poetry is like painting: some works will captivate you more if you look at them closely, and others if you move further away.
Horace

Poetry is not only in verses: it is poured out everywhere, it is all around us. Look at these trees, at this sky - beauty and life emanate from everywhere, and where there is beauty and life, there is poetry.
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Not everyone who can write poetry is a poet.
Ben Jonson

The historian and the poet differ from each other not in speech - rhymed or unrhymed; They are distinguished by the fact that one speaks about what happened, the other about what could have happened. Therefore, poetry is more philosophical and serious than history, for it shows the general, while history shows only the individual.
Aristotle

Analysis is not the poet's business. Its calling is to reproduce, not to dismember.
Thomas Macaulay

Not the poet who knows how to weave rhymes.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

Poetry is a play of feelings into which reason introduces a system; eloquence is a matter of reason, which is enlivened by feeling.
Immanuel Kant

Poetic perception of life, everything around us - greatest gift, inherited from childhood. If a person does not lose this gift over many sober years, then he is a poet or writer

WRITERS AND POETS ABOUT CREATIVITY

Know, artist, that simplicity and unity are needed in everything.
Horace (8 December 65 BC - 27 November 8 BC), ancient Roman poet

Art is about not being noticeable in a work of art.
Ovid (20 March 43 BC - 17 AD) - ancient Roman poet

Words that are born in the heart reach the heart, but those that are born on the tongue do not go further than the ears.
Ibrahim Al Husri (c.990 - 1022), Arabic poet and philologist

He who thinks clearly speaks clearly.
Nicolas Boileau (November 1, 1636 - March 13, 1711), French poet and critic

They write vaguely about what they vaguely imagine.
Mikhail Lomonosov(November 19, 1711—April 15, 1765), Russian scientist and poet

What is beautiful does not need additional adornment - what makes it most beautiful is the absence of adornment.
Johann Gottfried Herder (25 August 1744 – 18 December 1803), German writer and cultural historian

Johann Wolfgang Goethe(28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832), German poet

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

In the depths of man lies a creative force that is capable of creating what should be, which will not give us peace and rest until we express it outside of us in one way or another.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

No one knows what his powers are until he uses them.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Nature is always right. Errors and misconceptions come from people
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Why do you have to wait so long for inspiration? The poet is the ruler of inspiration. He must command them.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Every artist contains a germ of daring, without which no talent is conceivable.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

In any work of art, great or small, everything down to the last detail depends on the design.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Art is a mediator of what cannot be expressed.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Anyone who wants to reproach any author for incomprehensibility must first look inside himself to see if he is bright enough inside. At dusk, the most distinct handwriting becomes illegible.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Art is a mirror where everyone sees themselves.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Every artist has courage, without which talent is unthinkable.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Technology combined with vulgarity is the most terrible enemy of art.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Beauty cannot be known, it must be felt or created.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Becoming a person is an art.
Novalis (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801), German writer and poet

Genius is, as it were, the soul of the soul; this is the relationship between soul and spirit. It would be appropriate to call the substrate or scheme of genius an idol; an idol is the likeness of a person.
Novalis

To play is to experiment with chance.
Novalis
Theories are like nets: only those who cast them catch them.
Novalis

Such are the poets, these rare migratory birds among us; they sometimes pass through our villages and everywhere renew the old great cult of humanity and its first gods, stars, spring, love, happiness, fertility, health and joy.
Novalis

Poetry, on the contrary, does not create anything externally tangible. Moreover, she does not produce anything with her hands or external tools. Sight and hearing do not perceive poetry, for hearing words does not yet mean experiencing the spell of this mysterious art. It is all concentrated inside.
Novalis

I want to say that in every poetic work there must be chaos through a smooth haze of coherence. The richness of creative invention becomes understandable and attractive only with light presentation, while mere uniformity has the unpleasant dryness of arithmetic. Good poetry is that which is close to us, and often its favorite content is something very ordinary.
Novalis

In all forms of art, you yourself need to experience the sensations that you want to evoke in others.
Frederic de Stendhal (23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), French writer

I have never separated the artist from the thinker, just as I cannot separate artistic form from artistic thought.
Frederic de Stendhal

The third ability of the soul after mind and will is creativity.
Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky (January 29, 1783—April 12, 1852), Russian poet, translator, critic

To become a poet, you need to be in love or unhappy
Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), English poet

Each type of creativity has its joys: the whole point is to be able to take your goodness where you find it.
Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850), French writer

Each type of creativity has its joys: the whole point is to be able to take your goodness where you find it.
Honore de Balzac

The task of art is not to copy nature, but to express it. We must grasp the mind, meaning, appearance of things and beings.
Honore de Balzac

Serving the muses does not tolerate fuss
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin (June 6, 1799 - February 10, 1837), Russian poet and prose writer

Inspiration is not for sale, but you can sell the manuscript
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

As for the syllable, the simpler it is, the better it will be... The main thing: truth, sincerity.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

To express all of yourself in your creation - is there a greater triumph for the creator?
Victor Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885), French writer

Music - universal language peace.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882), American poet

Once you understand the character of the writer himself, understanding his works will not be difficult for you.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is hardly the highest of pleasures than the pleasure of creating.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (April 1, 1809 - March 4, 1852), Russian and Ukrainian writer

You can't learn creative techniques. Does every creator have his own techniques? One can only imitate higher techniques, but this leads nowhere, and one cannot penetrate into the work of the creative spirit.
Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov (June 18, 1812—September 27, 1891), Russian writer

The life of nature is continuous creativity, and although everything that is born in it dies, nothing perishes in it, is not destroyed, for death is birth.
Nikolai Stankevich (October 9, 1813 – July 27, 1840), Russian writer and poet

When love and craftsmanship come together, you can expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900), English writer and artist

Life without work is shameful; work without creativity is not worthy of a person.
John Ruskin

Creativity... is an integral, organic property of human nature... It is necessary accessory human spirit. It is as legitimate in a person, perhaps, as two hands, like two legs, like a stomach. It is inseparable from man and forms a whole with him.
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky(November 11, 1821 - February 9, 1881), Russian writer and thinker

The need for beauty and creativity, which embodies it, is inseparable from a person, and without it a person, perhaps, would not want to live in the world.
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Art is such a need for a person as eating and drinking. The need for beauty and creativity, which embodies it, is inseparable from a person, and without it a person, perhaps, would not want to live in the world.
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

The greatest skill of a writer is the ability to cross out. He who knows how and who has the strength to cross out his own will go far. All great writers wrote extremely concisely. And the main thing is not to repeat what has already been said or is already clear to everyone.
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

If you start thinking about how to profit from your writings, you are lost. You only need to think about art as such and about improving your own skills. Everything else is secondary.
Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880), French writer

You can't live by inspiration alone. Pegasus walks more often than gallops. The whole talent is in making him walk at the gait you want.
Gustave Flaubert

The main advantage of a writer is knowing what not to write.
Gustave Flaubert

Every soul is measured by the enormity of its aspiration...
Gustave Flaubert

Art requires either solitude, or need, or passion.
Alexandre Dumas fils (July 27, 1824 – November 27, 1895), French playwright and novelist

To have every reason for creativity, you need your life itself to be meaningful.
Henrik Ibsen (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906), Norwegian playwright

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910), Russian writer and thinker

Life is an ongoing creativity. The difference is that it was created there, but it is being created here. The weapon is love. His point is the mind.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

All art has two deviations from the path: vulgarity and artificiality.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Great objects of art are great only because they are accessible and understandable to everyone.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

A lot is needed for art, but the main thing is fire!
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

The main property in any art is a sense of proportion.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Any human creation, be it literature, music or painting, is always a self-portrait.
Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902), English writer and artist

Art has two most dangerous enemies: a craftsman not illuminated by talent and a talent who does not master the craft.
Anatole de France (16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924), French writer

A wonderful imagination is as necessary for the historian as for the poet, for without imagination nothing can be seen, nothing can be understood.
Anatole France

A sense of proportion in art is everything.
Anatole France

Criticism requires much more culture than creativity.
Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900), English, Irish writer and poet

Those who are able to see the highest meaning in beauty are cultured people. They are not hopeless. But the chosen one is the one who sees only one thing in beauty: Beauty.
Oscar Wilde

In all art there is something that lies on the surface and a symbol. Anyone who tries to penetrate deeper than the surface takes risks. And whoever reveals the symbol takes a risk.
Oscar Wilde

In essence, Art is a mirror that reflects whoever looks into it, and not life at all.
Oscar Wilde

The true secret of happiness is in the search for beauty.
Oscar Wilde

As one witty Frenchman said, women inspire us to do great things, but always prevent us from doing them.
Oscar Wilde

The benefit that art gives us is not in what we learn, but in what we become, thanks to it.
Oscar Wilde

I never need to think in what form to express this or that thought; the words themselves come to me along with the thought; but very often I am forced to carefully consider a thought in order to express it more accurately; and as soon as I form a definite opinion, everything immediately turns out to be said by itself... And when I try to play with words like bells, they stop coming.
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), English and Irish writer

My only policy is to forgive evil and do good. The most tragic thing in the world is a genius without honor
George Bernard Shaw

Where there is no will, there is no way.
George Bernard Shaw

If you have an apple and I have an apple, and if we exchange these apples, then you and I each have one apple left. And if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw

Life is not a melting candle for me. It's like a wonderful torch that fell into my hands for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before passing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you want; you desire what you imagine; and finally, you create what you desire.
George Bernard Shaw

You'll never write a good book without writing a few bad ones first.
George Bernard Shaw

A reasonable person adapts to the world; the unreasonable one tries to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, progress always depends on the unreasonable.
George Bernard Shaw

My fame grew with every failure.
George Bernard Shaw

Many great truths were at first blasphemy.
George Bernard Shaw

Development is a subconscious process that immediately stops when people start thinking about it.
George Bernard Shaw

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

People who succeed in this world are not lazy and look for the circumstances they need, and if they don’t find them, they create them.
George Bernard Shaw

You see things and you ask, "Why?" And I dream about things that never happened, and I say: “Why not?”
George Bernard Shaw

The last thing I care about is whether I get published or not. Only the creative process matters. Everything else is just literature.
Arthur Rimbaud (20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891), French poet

Whoever has experienced the pleasure of creativity, for him all other pleasures no longer exist.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (January 29, 1860 – July 15, 1904), Russian writer

A true writer is like an ancient prophet: he sees more clearly than ordinary people.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

IN good story, like on a warship, there should be nothing superfluous.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The art of writing is the art of abbreviation.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Brevity is the soul of wit.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

To always remain unsatisfied is the essence of creativity.
Jules Renard (22 February 1864 – 22 May 1910), French writer

Truth is not always art, and art is not always truth, but truth and art have common ground.
Jules Renard

To create means to kill death.
Romain Rolland (29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944), French writer

To create is nothing other than to believe.
Romain Rolland

Only the one who creates lives.
Romain Rolland

There is only one happiness: to create.
Romain Rolland

Creativity is the beginning that gives a person immortality.
Romain Rolland

To create - whether new flesh or spiritual values ​​- means to break free from the captivity of your body, it means to rush into the hurricane of life, it means to be the One who Is. To create means to kill death.
Romain Rolland

Only the one who creates lives. The rest are shadows wandering the earth, alien to life. All the joys of life are the joys of creativity: love, genius, action - these are discharges of power born in the flame of a single fire.
Romain Rolland

The fruits of true science and true art are the fruits of sacrifice, not of material gain
Romain Rolland

Life is not a burden, but wings of creativity and joy; and if anyone turns it into a burden, then he himself is to blame.
Vikenty Vikentyevich Veresaev (January 16, 1867—June 4, 1945) - Russian writer

A person may have many different moods, but he has one soul, and he subtly puts this soul into all his creativity.
John Galsworthy (14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933), English writer

Don't lose your sense of humor. Humor is to a person what fragrance is to a rose.
John Galsworthy

No one can force a writer to feel and see life one way and not another. After he learns to read and write, the only thing he can learn from others is how not to write. The true mentor of a writer is life itself.
John Galsworthy

Painting allows you to see things as they once were, when they were looked at with love.
Paul Valéry (30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945), French poet and essayist

Inspiration is a hypothesis that assigns the author the role of observer.
Paul Valéry
The painter must depict not what he sees, but what will be seen.
Paul Valéry

You need to be as light as a bird, not as light as a feather.
Paul Valéry

A person is more complex, infinitely more complex, than his thought.
Paul Valéry

Creativity is a passion that dies in form.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin (February 4, 1873 - January 16, 1954) - Russian Soviet writer

Creation - special kind activity, it brings satisfaction in itself.
Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965), English writer

The world consists of me, my thoughts, my feelings; everything else is a mirage, pure imagination. Life is a dream where I myself create the images that pass in front of me.
Somerset Maugham

Good style should show no trace of effort. What is written should seem like a happy accident.
Somerset Maugham
Dreams are not an escape from reality, but a means to get closer to it.
Somerset Maugham

Great truths are too important to be new.
Somerset Maugham

Life is ten percent what you do in it, and ninety percent how you receive it.
Somerset Maugham

Writing simply and clearly is as difficult as being sincere and kind.
Somerset Maugham

The whole difference between creation and creation comes down to this: a creature can only be loved by something that has already been created, and a creation can be loved by something that has not yet been created.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 16 June 1936), English writer and Christian thinker

Loneliness gives rise to the original, bold, frighteningly beautiful - poetry.
Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955), German writer

Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924), Austrian writer

He who retains the ability to see beauty does not grow old
Franz Kafka

Art is always a matter of the whole person. Therefore, it is fundamentally tragic.
Franz Kafka

When humanity is destroyed, there is no more art. Unite beautiful words- this is not art.
Bertolt Brecht (February 10, 1898 – August 14, 1956), German playwright, poet

All types of arts serve the greatest of arts - the art of living on Earth
Bertolt Brecht

Epochs without great goals do not have great art.
Bertolt Brecht

An unmistakable sign that something is not art or someone does not understand art is boredom... Art should be a means of education, but its goal is pleasure.
Bertolt Brecht

All types of arts serve the greatest of arts - the art of living on earth.
Bertolt Brecht

Art requires knowledge.
Bertolt Brecht

famous statements by writers on various topics:

Whether life events are good or bad largely depends on how we perceive them. Michel Montaigne

Shura, how much money do you need? - One hundred rubles! - No, how much do you need for complete happiness? I. Ilf and E. Petrov

Killing time is suicide. D. Pekk

What makes a man rich is his heart. Wealth is determined not by what a person has, but by what he is. Henry Ward Beecher

Tact is good taste in behavior and demeanor, and good manners - good taste in conversation and speeches. Nicolas-Sebastian Chamfort

The human heart contains true chivalry: it is capable of love. Chivalrous behavior grows from the depths of the heart. Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Drunkenness does not give birth to vices: it reveals them. Happiness does not change morals: it emphasizes them. Socrates

You can always find enough time if you use it well I. V. Goethe

In addition to the producing person, there are also higher species. Friedrich Nietzsche

Even cruel hearts are overcome by a kind request. Albius Tibullus

But what should I do if I probably know that the deepest egoism lies at the basis of all human virtues? And the more virtuous the deed, the more egoism there is. Love yourself is one rule that I recognize. Life is a commercial transaction... Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

A friendship that ended never really began. Publilius Syrus

Our life is one wandering shadow, a pathetic actor who swaggers on stage for an hour, and then disappears without a trace; a tale told by a madman, full of sound and fury and making no sense. William Shakespeare

The only happiness in life is constant striving forward. Emile Zola

We care most about life as it loses its value; old people regret it more than young people. Jean Jacques Rousseau

If there is no further growth, then sunset is near. Seneca

Shout - anyone will hear, whisper - the closest one will hear, and only the lover will hear what you are silent about.

Life is not a melting candle for me. It is something like a wonderful torch that fell into my hands for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before passing it on to the next generation. H.G. Wells

From birth, everyone was given exactly the same thing: laughter and tears, Just know, choose your craft, as it happened, as it happened... K. Kinchev “Alice”

Life is better lived in dreams than in reality. Marcel Proust

Some people climb to a high position in life as chimney sweeps, crawling through dark, suffocating and dirty canals and becoming completely covered with soot and soot. Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Life creates order, but order does not create life. Saint-Exupery A.

It is customary for everyone to live and burn, But then you will only immortalize life, When you draw a path for it to light and greatness with Your sacrifice. Boris Pasternak

The idea and its embodiment must arise simultaneously and inseparably from each other. Ralph Vaughan Williams

Life is ten percent what you do in it, and ninety percent how you receive it. William Somerset Maugham

True love in itself feels so much holiness, innocence, strength, enterprise and independence that for it there is no crime, no obstacles, or the whole prosaic side of life. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Life has only the meaning that we give it. Thornton Wilder

When you love, you want to do something in the name of love. I want to sacrifice myself. I want to serve. Ernst Miller Hemingway

There is a special breed of people who specifically make fun of every phenomenon in life. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Better let me be ashes and dust! It would be better for my flame to dry up in a blinding flash than for mold to choke it out! Jack London

If you were guaranteed absolute success at one thing, what goal would you set for yourself? Brian Tracy

That’s why youth is given to be ebullient, active, life-affirming. Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov

The soul is born old and gradually becomes younger. This is the comedic side of life. The body is born young and gradually ages. And this is the tragic side. Oscar Wilde

There is no point where you can say, “Well, now I’m successful. You can also take a nap. Carrie Fisher

A truly polite person is always full of love. He loves the person he wants to know in order to save him. Max Frisch

a very small degree of hope is enough to bring love to life. After two or three days, hope may disappear; nevertheless, love has already been born. Frederic Stendhal

Totally fuller and life is more interesting when a person struggles with what prevents him from living. Maksim Gorky

Remember that happiness does not depend on who you are or what you have; it depends entirely on what you think about it. Dale Carnegie

You don't have to be better than others, just be better than you were yesterday. From Andrey Yashurin’s course “Be confident in yourself!”

The meaning of life is that it has its end. Franz Kafka

Jealousy is one part of love and ninety-nine parts of self-love. F. La Rochefoucauld

You won't learn to skate if you're afraid to be funny. The ice of life is slippery. George Bernard Shaw

Without labor one cannot be clean and joyful life. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The bread that you store in your bins belongs to the hungry; the cloak lying in your chest belongs to a naked man; the gold that you buried in the ground belongs to the poor man. Basil the Great (Basily of Caesarea)

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