“The Problem with quotes on the Internet is,
(Abraham Lincoln)
that you can’t always be sure of their authenticity”
German Proverbs:
The one who asks questions gets answers!
(Rainbowguardians)
Who searches finds!
Order is half the Life!
Food and Drink keeps Body and Soul/Spirit together!
What must be that must be!
Wat mut dat mut!
Proverbs:
Who abandons friendship out of life,
(Marcus Tullius Cicero)
removes the sun out of the world.
The point is not,
(Cicely Saunders)
to give more days to live,
but to give more life to the days.
To mourn made mistakes is not useful for anything.
(August von Platen)
The beauty of things lives in the soul of the one who contemplates them.
(David Hume)
It needs two years, to learn how to speak,
(Ernest Hemingway)
and fifty, to learn how to be silent.
If we withstand our passions,
(Francois VI., Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
we thank it more to their weakness than to our strength
If a cause is difficult for you to manage,
(Marc Aurel)
you shouldn’t immediately think,
it is impossible for humans to manage,
you should rather believe,
if something is possible at all for humans and it lies within its scope,
that it is also possible for you to reach.
Nothing prevents indulgence more than overabundance.
(Michel de Montaigne)
The beginning and the end of a love announce themselves thereby,
(Jean de la Bruyere)
that oneself avoids being alone with the other.
A ray of sun can make a different person out of me.
(Hugo von Hofmannsthal)
Laughing is the sun,
(Victor Hugo)
that casts out the winter out of the human countenance.
Everything has/takes its time and its place!
(Unknown/Rainbowguardian)
Happiness is a mosaic picture,
(Daniel Spitzer)
that is put together from a lot of inconspicuous little joys.
Before one desires something ardently,
(Francois de la Rochefoucauld)
one should examine the joy of the one,
who owns it already.
To us belongs only the hour.
(Theodor Fontane)
And one hour,
that is happy,
is very much.
If we would get a headache before the inebriation,
(Michel de Montaigne)
we would be careful, to drink too much.
But first comes the desire,
which deceives and doesn’t let us think about, what comes then.
Patience is the art of hoping.
(Luc de Clapier Vauvenargues)
Have patience in all things,
(Franz von Sales)
but especially with yourself.
A heavy door also just needs a small key.
(Charles Dickens)
The wideness of views comes from the heart.
(Jakob Bosshart)
The life force of an era isn’t contained in its harvest but in its sowing.
(Ludwig Börne)
The mountain peak in sight,
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
we promenade gladly on the lowlands.
Imitate the walk of nature.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Her secret is patience.
Summer transforms a human into a dreamer.
(Paul Keller)
Modesty is the beginning of all reason.
(Ludwig Anzengruber)
Serenity is a graceful form of self-confidence.
(Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
I like the dreams of the future better than all the story of the past.
(Thomas Jefferson)
Life is charming,
(Alexandre Dumas)
you merely have to look at it through the right glasses.
The cheerfulness of the heart unlocks,
(Jean-Paul)
like spring,
the blossoms of the inside.
People merely see all that,
(Jimi Hendrix)
what they can have and get,
but don’t appreciate what they already have,
until they lose it.
The superstition,
(Lessing from “Nathan der Weise”)
in which we grew up, loses,
even though we realize it,
therefore after all not its power over us.
One says,
(Denis Diderot)
love robs those the mind,
which have one and gives it those,
who have none.
If we can’t find contentment in ourselves,
(La Rochefoucauld)
it is useless,
to search elsewhere for it.
The safe wealth is the poverty in needs.
(Franz Werfel)
In living nature nothing happens,
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
that doesn’t stand in connection to the whole.
All genuine patterns of flavor are in nature.
(Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
I regard spring,
(Friedrich Hebbel)
as if it came to me,
in order to be thankful for it.
One should not forget,
(Henry Matisse)
to see the world with childs eyes.
Shared memories sometimes are the best peacemakers.
(Marcel Proust)
Who wants to fathom everything immediately!
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
As soon as the snow melts,
it will be found.
What the sunshine is for flowers,
(Joseph Addison)
that are laughing faces for people.
Humour is not a gift of the mind, but a gift of the heart.
(Ludwig Böhme)
The Question is not,
(Henry David Thoreau)
what you look at – but what you see.
If you realize,
(Laotse)
that you lack nothing,
the whole world belongs to you.
No gift acts mightier and more adorable in a human than fantasy.
(Adalbert Stifter)
If you truly love nature,
(Vincent van Gogh)
you will find it beautifully everywhere.
Who has no peace in the heart,
(Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg)
also hasn’t it outside.
Only who can look carelessly into the future,
(Stefan Zweig)
enjoys the present with a good feeling.
You have to give before you take – and build before you reside.
(Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
Everywhere is a flower of joy queued into the collar of life.
(Johann Heinrich Witschel)
Time is a mighty master,
(Pierre Corneille)
it straightens out a lot.
Travelling ennobles the spirit and straightens all our prejudices.
(Oscar Wilde)
The flowers of spring are the dreams of winter.
(Khalil Gibran)
Bright thoughts and a cheerful mind make lovely days.
(Henry David Thoreau)
Indulgence is but a drop into the cocktail of joy,
(Albert Memmi)
but what a flavor it grants.
There exists a silence in autumn as far as into the colors.
(Hugo von Hofmannsthal)
Not the wind determines the direction, but the sail.
(Chinese proverb from Lao Xiang)
The course of events teaches us confidence everywhere.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Anyone,
(Franz Kafka)
who preserves the ability,
to see beautiful things,
will never grow old.
Just like the sun colors the flowers, so art colors life.
(Sir John Lubbock)
In fact,
(Oscar Wilde)
art reflects the viewer,
not life.
You lose the most time with, trying to gain time.
(John Steinbeck)
To get,
(Charles F. Kettering)
what you wished for,
is success.
To wish,
what you can get,
is joy.
Life’s May only blossoms once and never again.
(Friedrich von Schiller)
I love the dance,
(Aurelius Augustinus)
because it frees the human from the severity of things.
Him blows no wind,
(Michel de Montaigne)
who has no harbour to sail for.
Love one another,
(Khalil Gibran)
but don’t make love a fetter.
Spring has a redeeming power.
(Wilhelm Busch)
Only through the winter,
(Gottfried Keller)
the springtide is achieved.
All flowers must pass away,
(Johann Wofgang von Goethe)
so that the fruits will make you happy.
Art might be a game,
(Caspar David Friedrich)
but it is as a serious game.
It forms itself,
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
a talent in silence,
a character in the flow of the world.
Act in such a way
(Immanuel Kant (1724-1804))
that the maxim of your actions
could serve as a principle of general legislation at any time.
“You just have to change the direction,”
(Franz Kafka)
the cat said to the mouse and ate it.
True Friendship is very slow growing plant.
(George Washington)
Endurance will be rewarded sooner or later –
(Wilhelm Busch)
but mostly later.
American Indigenous Proverbs:
That,
(American Indigenous proverb)
which is greater than us,
teaches all creatures, what they should do.
We are like flowers.
We live and we die,
and by ourselves, we know nothing.
But that,
which is greater than us,
teaches us – teaches us,
how we should live.
Grandfather speaks:
(North American Indigenous proverb)
“The weakest step in the direction of the mountaintop,
in the direction of sunrise,
in the direction of hope,
is stronger than the worst storm”
Grandfather speaks:
“In live exist sadness as well as joy,
loss as well as gain,
fail as well as passing,
hunger as well as abundance,
the good as well as the evil.I don’t say that, that you despair,
(American indigenous proverb)
but to show you the reality.
Life is a journey,
which is undertaken sometimes in the light and sometimes in the shadow.
Not to be superior to my brothers, I am seeking strength,
(Wisdom of the Sioux)
but to fight my biggest enemy – myself.
The bad side of life,
(Wisdom of the Sioux)
sometimes teaches me more wisdom,
than the good one.
“Life has two faces,
and the one is not less real than the other.
If everything would always stay the same,
there would be no diversity,
no tension and no balance.
There would be no black as a contrast to the white,
no sundown, to end the day, which started with the sunrise,
and no warmth, to chase away the coldness.That, which takes care of the balance in the journey of your life,
(Old Hawk, Sicangu Lakota)
brings also trouble.
But at the end it also holds a present,
which we often do not see.”
Difficult experiences,
(Old Hawk, “Stay on your path” {The wisdom of an old Indian})
no matter if it is sadness, loss, hunger, poverty, sickness or death,
seldom appear, because you invited them yourself.
But if life enjoins hardship upon your path,
it always offers you the chance, to gain strength.
That is the invisible gift.
Spiritual Proverbs:
The universe gives birth to itself from itself,
(Egyptian book of the dead)
and the divine is contained in everything.
Trust is an oasis in the heart,
(Khalil Gibran)
which is never reached by the caravan of thinking.
Pain is like a holy angel,
(Adalbert Stifter)
and through it,
man learns more than through all success.
We are angels with only one wing.
(Luciano de Crescenzo)
In order to fly,
we must hug each other.
The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high,
(Jean-Paul)
that we cannot see them,
but they always look down upon us.
A little bit of passion fires the spirit,
(Stendhal)
too much extinguishes it.
God wants the people to be happy,
(Martin Luther)
that’s why he shaped everything so beautifully.
The dreamers are the protectors of the world.
(James Allen)
Who steps in front of the mirror, in order to change,
(Lucius Seneca (4 bc – 65 ad))
has already changed oneself.
Clouds pass quickly,
(Rabindranath Tagore)
and the sun shines every day.
The ideal human feels joy if he can render a service to another.
(Aristoteles)
High thoughts originate from the deepness of the heart.
(Eastern Wisdom)
Before God Almighty, there are no secrets!
(Unknown/Rainbowguardian)
Angels are quicker than the speed of light!
(NDE’ers)
What you deal out, will be dealt to you.
(Unknown)
What we know, is a drop,
(Isaac Newton)
what we don’t know, is an ocean.
What you don’t want to be done onto you,
(Anonymous)
don’t do onto others!
Have trust in life – and it carries you lightwards.
(Seneca)
What a heavenly sensation it is,
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
to follow one’s heart.
And in the dark nights,
(Rainer Maria Rilke)
the heavy earth falls out of all the stars,
into loneliness.
The one who knows others is smart,
(Lao-Tse)
the one who knows oneself is wise.
Most people make joy as a requirement.
(Arthur Rubinstein)
But joy finds itself only when you don’t impose any conditions.
Patience is tamed passion.
(Lyman Abbott)
Even more beautiful then the fullest possession,
(Emanuel Geibel)
is the anticipation of joy.
All that happens,
(Johann Gottlieb Fichte)
belongs to the eternal plan of the world,
and is good in it.
The whole life of a human is nothing but an instant.
(Plutarch)
Let’s enjoy it.
Who wants to be faithful to oneself,
(Christian Morgenstern)
can’t always be faithful to others.
The flower lives and loves and talks a wonderful language.
(Peter Rosegger)
The little truth has clear words,
(Rabindranâth Tagore)
the big truth has big silence.
The winter lies upon my head,
(From China)
but eternal spring is in my soul.
In the matter of love,
(Beaumarchais)
too much isn’t approximately enough.
A sunbeam is enough,
(Franz von Assisi)
to enlighten much darkness.
The one is happy,
(Friedrich Schiller)
who breathes in the rosy light.
Happy is not,
(Seneca)
who appears so to others,
but who thinks so of oneself.
Yearning and inkling lay into one another,
(Bettina von Arnim)
one is driving the other.
Intellect and wit can easily amuse,
(Wilhelm Hey)
but alone the heart can fascinate.
One should not fear death,
(Mark Aurel)
but that you never start beginning to live your life.
Fantasy is the gift,
(Jonathan Swift)
to see invisible things.
All treasures of the world don’t compensate the Joy, being loved.
(Pedro Caldéron)
The more we are able to love and to devote us,
(Hermann Hesse)
the more meaningful becomes our life.
You can understand life only backward,
(Sören Kierkegaard)
but you have to live it forward.
With the wings of time,
(Jean de la Fontaine)
sadness flys away.
The highest pleasure is satisfaction with oneself.
(Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
People don’t trip over the mountains but over molehills.
(Konfuzius)
Let us enjoy life,
(Kurt Tucholsky)
as long as we don’t understand it.
Man can do much good,
(Albert Schweizer)
without having to make sacrifices.
It is nice, to be happy with the little things.
(Jeremias Gotthelf)
If you are good to others,
(Benjamin Franklin)
you are best to yourself
Who has no wish,
(Rabindranâth Tagore)
is quite near to happiness.
The miracle is the dearest child of faith.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
A drop of love is more than an ocean of reason.
(Blaise Pascal)
Who desires wine,
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
should press ripe grapes,
who hopes on miracles,
should streangthen his faith.
Wishlessness leads to inner peace.
(Laotse)
To admit,
(Konfuzius)
that you know nothing,
is Wisdom.
No mind is alright,
(Samuel Coleridge)
who’s lacking is in sense of humor.
Light finds its colours wealth,
(Rabindranath Tagore)
foremost in the resistance of clouds.
The greatest people are those,
(Jean Jaurès)
who can give hope to others.
Angst essen Seele auf.
(African Proverb)
Fear eat Soul.
“You big star!
(Friedrich Nietzsche (Also sprach Zarathustra))
What would your joy be,
if you didn’t have the one you shine!”
Be, what you want to appear like.
(Sokrates (470 – 399 B.C.))
There are no miracles for the indifferent.
(Henri Frédéric Amiel)
Everything is in the making,
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
everything is childhood.
There is eternal summer in a thankful heart.
(Celia Layton Thaxter)
A great person is one who does not lose his child’s heart.
(James Legge)
All is Brahma.
(Hermann Hesse/Robi)
Only love is allowed to break loves flowers.
(Friedrich von Schiller)
A dream is all life and the dreams are a dream themselves.
(Pedro Calderón de la Barca)
Do not stick to the past,
(Buddha)
do not lose yourself in the future.
Life is here and now.
The world belongs to those who enjoy it.
(Giacomo Leopardi)
