“it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.”
Muriel Spark, ”The Girls of Slender Means”
feb. 222023
OldSkull
feb. 222023
“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty – it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.”
Mother Teresa, ”A Simple Path: Mother Teresa”
feb. 222023
“Cine vrea să explice totul prin cuvinte ajunge curând să nu poată explica nimic! Sufletul n-are nevoie de cuvinte pentru a înţelege.”
Liviu Rebreanu, Adam și Eva
feb. 222023
“No, no, it’s not all random, if it was really random, the universe would abandon us completely, and the universe doesn’t. It takes care of its most fragile creations in ways we can’t see.”
RJ Palacio
feb. 222023
”Acolo zări Sam, preţ de o clipă, furişându-se licărul unei stele albe, printr-o spărtură a norilor, deasupra unui ţanc întunecat al crestei. Şi cum o privea el din meleagul acela uitat de lume, frumuseţea Stelei îl păli drept în inimă şi brusc i se retrezi speranţa. Ca o suliţă îl străpunse gândul limpede şi rece că, la urma urmei, Umbra era un lucru mărunt şi trecător, nimic altceva; lumina şi frumuseţea supremă aveau să dăinuiască veşnic, fără ca ea să le poată întina. Cântecul lui din Turn fusese mai curând o sfruntare, nu o speranţă; căci atunci se gândea la sine. Dar acum, preţ de o clipă, propria sa soartă şi chiar şi aceea a stăpânului său încetară să-l mai frământe. Se târî înapoi sub rugi, se întinse lângă Frodo şi, dând uitării orice teamă, se cufundă într-un somn adânc şi netulburat.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, ”Stăpânul inelelor”, vol. III, ”Întoarcerea regelui”
feb. 222023
“She sucked up her tears and sniffled one last time. She wasn’t really ready, but she knew she had to be. She wiped her cheeks dry and summoned up all the courage she could muster. This was a matter of life and death. These strangers she was with would sooner leave her behind than risk their lives for her. She had to be tough, at least, for now.”
Jason Medina, ”The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel”
feb. 212023
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
Aristotle
feb. 212023
“Nu-ţi îmbogăţeşti sufletul cu adevăruri mărunte: cine şi-ar face avere adunând praful de aur împrăştiat pe pământ?”
Lucian Blaga
feb. 212023
“When we are no longer children we are already dead”
Constantin Brâncuși
feb. 212023
“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”Dylan Thomas, „Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
feb. 212023
“Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.”
Benjamin Franklin
feb. 202023
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”N-ai nevoie de foarte multe ca să fii fericit
e de-ajuns o mână de prieteni în asfințit
n-ai nevoie de foarte multe ca să fii fericit
e de-ajuns un cântec de-ajuns și puțin infinit.
chiar dacă lumea-i un pic anormală
chiar dacă anii sunt grei
sau cine știe ce războinică yală
nu mai suportă chei.
n-ai nevoie de foarte multe ca să fii fericit
e de-ajuns o mână de prieteni în asfințit
n-ai nevoie de foarte multe ca să fii fericit
e de-ajuns un cântec de-ajuns și puțin infinit.
atâta ispită strălucitoare
atâtea planuri, atâta chin
iar ai uitat că lume-ai făcută
din foarte puțin.
n-ai nevoie de foarte multe ca să fii fericit
e de-ajuns o mână de prieteni în asfințit
n-ai nevoie de foarte multe ca să fii fericit
e de-ajuns un cântec de-ajuns și puțin infinit”
feb. 202023
We were a flower
That never reach full bloom
We never gave our love much chance to grow
Even though the feeling was wonderful
We went on our separate ways
And all we know
It’s what we share is more than most
Chorus
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Cause we came all so very close to love
But we let it slip away
I always wondered why
You never chose to stay
So close to love
Sometimes it seems like it was only yesterday
I find myself dreaming of
How we came all so very close to love
I always remember
The way you care for me
Time after time my life was in despair
Yet somehow I always knew you’ll be right there
At times I did not have a prayer
I’m sure that you and I both know
Chorus
–––-
That we came all so very close to love
But we let it slip away
I always wondered why
You never chose to stay
So close to love
Sometimes it seems like it was only yesterday
And I think I had a lover
And we came all so very close to love
Bridge
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How can I face the fact it’s over
We’re through
I can’t believe it’s true
When I’m alone
Sometimes I wonder if you knew
How much I care for you
So I’m hanging on to the memories
How hard you make sweet love to me
And it’s so hard to let it go
Chrous
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When we came all so very close to love
But we let it slip away
I always wondered why
You never chose to stay
So close to love
Sometimes it seems like it was only yesterday
I find myself dreaming of
How we came all so very close to love
We let it slip away
I always wonder why
You never chose to, chose to stay
So close to love
Sometimes it seems like it was only yesterday
I find myself dreaming
I find myself dreaming of…
Your love… yeah…
So close
So very close to your love
Compozitori: Curtiss Lennard Boone.
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Date de la: Musixmatch
feb. 202023
”Fără-ndoială că vă ziceţi: „Plăcerea de-a face mici răutăţi, ne fereşte să făptuim un rău mai mare”. Dar în acest domeniu nu trebuie s-agoniseşti nimic.
Fapta cea rea e ca o coptură — te doare, te mănîncă, plesneşte; adică-i sinceră zicînd: sunt boală.
Gândul cel josnic, însă, este un mucegai: se chir¬ceşte, se ascunde, până întregul trup e veştejit şi ros de o mulţime de mici ciuperci.”Nietzsche, ”Așa grăit-a Zarathustra”, cap. ”Despre cei milostivi”
feb. 202023
„Noi nu ne întâlnim întâmplător. Noi întâlnim doar acele persoane pe care deja le cunoaştem în subconştientul nostru.”
Sigmund Freud
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