Quotes

Oscar Wilde
1. Genius lasts longer than beauty.
2. Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
3. There is no such thing as a good influence. All influence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of view. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul, He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passion, His virtues are not real to him, His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
4. Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul
5. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
6. The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
7. To get back one's youth, one merely has to repeat one's follies.
8. The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
9. Women represent triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
10. The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failure!
11. It is only the sacred things that are worth touching.
12. When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self and one always ends by deceiving others.
13. People are fond of giving away what they need the most. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
14. There are two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
15. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
16. Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
17. Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
18. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
19. All great ideas are dangerous.
20. A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Khaled Hosseini
1. It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
2. Of all the hardships a person has to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
3. Writers, especially the beginners, need to be chain readers. And lastly, write every day. Write about things that get under your skin and keep you up at night.
4. It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.
5. Better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

Rabindranath Tagore (The Victory)
What God builds man adds his own decorations.

Richard Bach
1. To bring anything into your life, imagine that it is already there.
2. You teach the best what you most need to learn.
3. Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a false Messiah!
4. A professional writer is an amateur who did not quit!
5. Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.