7 Quotes and Aphorisms 06/21/2017
As the poet absolutely correctly put it, “we did not teach dialectics according to Hegel.” From their school years, the Soviet generation remembered the lines of another mentor, Nikolai Ostrovsky, who insisted: life must be lived in such a way “that there is no excruciating pain...” The textbook phrase ended with a call to give all one’s strength to the “struggle for the liberation of mankind.”
Decades have passed, and many of us remain grateful to Nikolai Ostrovsky for his personal example of perseverance and for his unique aphorisms and quotes about life with meaning. The point is not even that they corresponded to that heroic era. No, similar thoughts were heard in the statements of philosophers, historical figures of the ancient world, and at other times. He just set the highest bar, which is not achievable for everyone.
However, another thinker around the same period advised: “Steer higher, the current will still carry you away.” So figuratively, Nicholas Roerich explained that there must be high goals, and then life and the environment will definitely make their own adjustments. Aphorisms about the life of this great scientist and cultural figure are worth studying separately and in detail.
Today I have prepared for you, my dear readers, a selection of a wide variety of catchphrases that may help us all take a slightly different look at ourselves, our place in the world, our purpose.
The great ones about work, creativity, and other high meanings
We spend at least a third of our working-age lives working. In reality, most of us spend much more time doing things than is outlined in the official daily routine. It is no coincidence that aphorisms and quotes about life with meaning from great people and the statements of our contemporaries are often based precisely on this side of our existence.
When work and hobbies coincide or are at least close to each other, when we choose something we like, it becomes as productive as possible and brings us a lot of positive emotions. The Russian people have created many proverbs and sayings about the role of crafts and a good attitude to business in everyday life. “He who gets up early, God gives to him,” our wise ancestors said. And they joked caustically about lazy people: “They are on the committee for trampling the pavements.” Let's see what aphorisms about life and life values were left to us as a guide to action by the sages of different eras and peoples.
Wise life aphorisms and quotes from great people with meaning about life
“If a person begins to be interested in the meaning of life or its value, this means that he is sick.” Sigmund Freud.
“If anything is worth doing, it’s only what is considered impossible.” Oscar Wilde.
“Good wood does not grow in silence: the stronger the winds, the stronger the trees.” J. Willard Marriott.
“The brain itself is vast. It can be equally the container of both heaven and hell.” John Milton.
“Before you have time to find the meaning of life, it has already been changed.” George Carlin.
“Whoever works all day has no time to earn money.” John D. Rockefeller.
“Everything that does not give pleasure is called work.” Bertolt Brecht.
“It doesn’t matter how slowly you go, as long as you don’t stop.” Bruce Lee.
“The most rewarding thing is to do something that people think you will never do.” Arabic proverb.
Statuses about life with meaning
A simple way to check how dear you are to someone. Stop calling, texting and start counting the days.
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I miss the old days. I'm just bored. Sometimes a wave of memories comes flooding back and gives you goosebumps. I just miss those people who are no longer around.
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- It's a pity that now it's not possible to talk to some people like before. Just at one moment, something changed and it all ended.
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Living alone is much better than living among broken promises and fake love.
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People push away those they need for the sake of those they need. And in the end, they become useless to anyone.
Disadvantages are a continuation of advantages, mistakes are stages of growth
“The whole world can’t beat the sun,” our grandfathers and great-grandfathers reassured themselves when something didn’t work out, didn’t go according to plan. Aphorisms about life do not ignore this topic: our shortcomings, mistakes that can nullify our efforts, but can, on the contrary, teach us a lot. “Troubles torment but teach wisdom” - there are many similar proverbs among different peoples of the world. And religions teach us to bless obstacles, because we grow with them.
“People always blame circumstances. I don't believe in circumstances. In this world, only those who seek the conditions they need succeed and, if they don’t find them, create them themselves.” Bernard Show.
“Don’t pay attention to minor flaws; remember: you also have big ones.” Benjamin Franklin.
“A correct decision made late is a mistake.” Lee Iacocca.
“You need to learn from other people's mistakes. It’s impossible to live long enough to do them all on your own.” Hyman George Rickover.
“Everything that is beautiful in this life is either immoral, illegal, or leads to obesity.” Oscar Wilde.
“We cannot stand people with the same shortcomings that we have.” Oscar Wilde.
“Genius lies in the ability to distinguish the difficult from the impossible.” Napoleon Bonaparte.
“The greatest glory is not to never fail, but to be able to rise whenever you fall.” Confucius.
“What cannot be corrected should not be mourned.” Benjamin Franklin.
“A person should always be happy; if happiness ends, look where you went wrong.” Lev Tolstoy.
“Everyone is making plans, and no one knows whether he will survive until the evening.” Lev Tolstoy.
Proverbs, sayings about life
- Living life is not a field to cross
- It's hard to live and it's not easy to die
- Whoever is born screams; who dies is silent
- Live for two: until the end of the day and until the evening
- It is not he who lives longer who lives longer
- Life is given for good deeds
- You can eat to your heart's content, but you won't make enough money
- If you start crying, God will make you live longer
- What has been lived, what has been spilled, cannot be turned back
- Living life is like swimming across the sea.
- To get rid of life - and to beat and beat others with a bat
- An established tree grows from a poke
- A living bone becomes overgrown with meat
- The needle serves as long as the ears, and people as long as the souls
- The sea of everyday life is full of pitfalls
- Pull the strap until they dig a hole!
- There is no need to live
About the philosophy and realities of money
A lot of beautiful short aphorisms and quotes about life with meaning are dedicated to financial issues. “Without money, everyone is skinny,” “The purchase has become dull,” the Russian people are ironic about themselves. And he assures: “He is wise who has a strong pocket!” He immediately gives advice on the easiest way to achieve recognition from others: “If you want good, sprinkle some silver!” Continuation - in the apt statements of famous and anonymous authors who know exactly the value of money.
“Don’t be afraid of big expenses, be afraid of little income.” John Rockefeller.
“If you buy what you don’t need, you will soon sell what you need.” Benjamin Franklin.
“If a problem can be solved with money, then it is not a problem. It's just an expense." Henry Ford.
“We don’t have money, so we have to think.”
“A woman will always be dependent until she has her own wallet.”
“Money doesn’t buy happiness, but it makes it much more pleasant to be unhappy.” Claire Booth Lyos.
“The dead are valued according to their merits, the living according to their financial means.”
“Even a fool can produce a product, but it takes brains to sell it.”
Friends and enemies, family and us
The theme of friendship and enmity, relationships with loved ones has always been popular among writers and poets. Aphorisms about the meaning of life that touch on this side of existence are quite numerous. They sometimes become “anchors” on which songs and poems are built that gain truly popular love. It is enough to recall at least the lines of Vladimir Vysotsky: “If a friend suddenly turned out to be...”, the heartfelt dedications to the friends of Rasul Gamzatov and other Soviet poets.
Below I have selected for you, dear friends, aphorisms about life with meaning, short and succinct, accurate. Maybe they will lead you to some thoughts or memories, maybe they will help you evaluate familiar situations and the place of your friends in them differently.
“Forgiving your enemies is the best way to make them angry.” Oscar Wilde.
“As long as you are concerned about what other people will say about you, you are at their mercy.” Neil Donald Welsh.
“Before you love your enemies, try to treat your friends a little better.” Edgar Howe.
“The principle of “an eye for an eye” will make the whole world blind.” Mahatma Gandhi.
“If you want to change people, start with yourself. It’s both healthier and safer.” Dale Carnegie.
“Do not be afraid of enemies who attack you, fear friends who flatter you.” Dale Carnegie.
“There is only one way to earn love in this world - stop demanding it and start giving love without expecting gratitude.” Dale Carnegie.
“The world is large enough to satisfy the needs of every person, but too small to satisfy human greed.” Mahatma Gandhi.
“The weak never forgive. Forgiveness is the property of the strong.” Mahatma Gandhi.
“It has always been a mystery to me: how people can respect themselves by humiliating people like themselves.” Mahatma Gandhi.
“I only look for the good in people. I myself am not without sin, and therefore I do not consider myself to have the right to focus on the mistakes of others.” Mahatma Gandhi.
“Even the strangest people can come in handy someday.” Tove Jansson, All About the Moomins.
“I don’t believe that you can change the world for the better. I believe that we can try not to make it worse.” Tove Jansson, All About the Moomins.
“If you managed to deceive a person, it does not mean that he is a fool, it means that you were trusted more than you deserve.” Tove Jansson, All About the Moomins.
“Neighbors should be seen, but not heard.”
“Never exaggerate the stupidity of your enemies or the loyalty of your friends.”
Quotes about the life values of great people
Issue title: Quotes about the life values of great people. Victory begins on the day when only one opinion remains - your own.
Of the two, the most beautiful is the one who did not open her mouth in front of us. Pierre Corneille
An old lover means so little to a woman that he is easily exchanged for a new husband, and the new husband loses his novelty so quickly that he almost immediately gives way to a new lover. Jean La Bruyère
The highest right is often the highest evil. Publius Terence Arf
The heaviest torment is the torment of love. Margaret of Navarre the Elder
It is better to love and lose love than to never love at all. A. Tennyson
Love in its essence is a mystical fire. E. Swedenborg
The soul is like a balloon: if you throw away the ballast, it takes off.
Circumstances change, principles never. Honore de Balzac
He who is lazy is the most dishonest of people, since the creator did not create a single grain for him who is lazy.
Each of us has something to say, it’s just that many use language inappropriately.
It is very easy to change others, but much more difficult to change yourself. Oscar Wilde
We can suppress pain, tears, anger, love... But we cannot contain the wild laugh...
At the stop at Destiny our souls got wet, sometimes we wait half our lives for happiness, but it’s only a step away.
You have to live your life so that those at the top go nuts and say - come on, repeat!
Time, which destroys fortresses, enriches poetry. Jorge Luis Borges
Imitate people in their inclinations, follow their rules, indulge their weaknesses, admire their every action - and make of them what you want. Jean Baptiste Moliere
A man of great passions does not know how to pretend. Romain Rolland
The main reason why Santa is so funny is because he knows where all the bad girls live. George Carlin
It is fitting for a person to have patience in his labors and suffering, and generosity towards human faults and mistakes. Catherine II the Great
We don't need help from friends so much as we need confidence that we will receive it. The worst thing young people can learn is frivolity. For the latter gives rise to those pleasures from which vice develops. Democritus
I want to meet a guy like me who wants to meet a girl like me.
Virtue and wisdom without knowledge of the rules of conduct are like foreign languages, because they are then usually not understood. Francis Bacon
When faced with difficulties, you cannot give up and run. You must evaluate the situation, look for solutions and believe that everything is being done for the better. Patience is the key to victory. Nick Vujicic
I wish you good morning today! I improve your mood! So that the whole day does not pass in vain, I will hug and cling to you passionately!
The all-consuming passion of any woman is to marry someone off. If she is not married - herself. If married, then the woman whom her husband would most likely marry if he were suddenly widowed tomorrow. Henry Mencken
No one has ever been born free from suffering. Friedrich Schiller
Science is not and will never be a finished book. Every important success brings new questions. Every development reveals new and deeper difficulties over time. Albert Einstein
I’m sending you an SMS, because I already miss you very much. Let tomorrow come soon so that we can meet quickly.
Fearlessness is essential for the development of other noble qualities. Is it possible to seek truth or carefully cherish love without courage? Mohandas Karamchand Mahatma Gandhi
Education is the face of reason. Kay-Kavus
Admitting our weakness is a great lesson we learn. Isn’t it better to gain other people’s trust in me by sincerely admitting that I don’t know anything, than to mumble words and cause self-pity by trying to explain everything? He who freely admits ignorance of what he does not know encourages me to believe what he undertakes to explain to me. Denis Diderot
It is easier to bear a blow from a friend than from a debtor. Marcus Tullius Cicero
You are so stupid that I don’t even need to insult you.
Good morning my gentle angel! My heart is filled only with you, I really hope that yesterday’s surprise did not pass without a trace. Just say that you love me and there will be fewer such surprises. Don't joke with me, you're playing with fire.
Just as medicine fails to achieve its goal if the dose is too large, so does blame and criticism when it exceeds the measure of justice. Arthur Schopenhauer
Everything else doesn’t matter... When your favorite miracle is waiting at home and the man with whom you want to live forever!
The problem is that by not taking risks, we risk a hundred times more.
Time and truth are great healers. Winston Churchill
A blind person can travel around the world and not notice anything. Thomas Carlyle
I want to wear your shirts on my naked body and make you coffee in the morning...
Ah, it’s not difficult to deceive me! I'm happy to be deceived myself! Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
There is a right by which we can take away a person's life, but there is no right by which we can take away his death. Friedrich Nietzsche
I wish you a successful day today, and remember at the end of this day that someone is waiting for you!
Justice is manifested in rewarding everyone according to his deserts. Marcus Tullius Cicero
A balanced diet is when you hold exactly the same pieces of cake in each hand.
True friendship is precisely a chosen kinship. Ernest Wilfried Aeguwe
Believe that you can, and half the way has already been passed. Theodore Roosevelt
Children never obeyed adults, but they regularly imitated them.
A person needs free labor in itself, for the development and maintenance of his sense of human dignity.
Sport is life... Years of hard training, when it happens that it is difficult to hold back tears from fatigue... Life would be empty and meaningless without sport.
It is the same in love and war: the fortress that negotiates is half taken. Margaret of Navarre
In general, friendship can only be judged in relation to people of mature age and mature souls. Cicero Marcus Tullius
Let our every day be interesting, fulfilling, bright, beautiful, wonderful, let our feelings glow, but not burn out, give us unique moments!
If youth knew, if old age could.
Of the pleasures, the most pleasant are those that occur most rarely. Democritus
Good morning, my dear man, shine and recharge your energy for the whole day.
The true strength of a person is not in impulses, but in unshakable calm. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
There is decency in grief. And in tears one should know when to stop. Only foolish people are immoderate in their expressions of both joy and sorrow. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Younger)
Diligence overcomes everything! Kozma Prutkov
It is difficult to imagine what power over matter a person can acquire. Benjamin Franklin
Like-mindedness creates friendship. Democritus
When the heart sings from love, it is better for the mind not to sing along, but to conduct.
If you want life to smile at you, give it your good mood first!
Wisdom is of no use to a wise man if he cannot help himself. Marcus Tullius Cicero
After a busy day, relax, hug me, and dissolve in a kiss, light yourself with a hot candle!
The worker's position cannot be improved by making the employer's position worse. William Boatker
Empirical sciences, when pursued only for their own sake, without any philosophical purpose, are like a face without eyes. Arthur Schopenhauer
A true friend is not a bed, but you can rely on him.
He who did not know love was as if he had not lived. Jean Baptiste Moliere
Love cannot exist without respect. Nikolay Leskov
It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and angry wife. Proverbs of Solomon (ch. 21, cm. 19)
To live means to act. Anatole France
I love you more than anyone and anything in the world! You are my soul! The meaning of my existence, when you are not around, I am not there... I love you madly!
Talking about natural justice is nonsense. Karl Marx
Good morning, open the curtains, open your lovely peace to the sun and get a radiant mood!
Who can you tell me who would at least know how to value time? He who has nothing to hope for has nothing to despair of. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Younger)
Everything was fine, and then I had the urge to make sure of it.
Quotes about the life values of great people: Statesman and politician. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Optimism, success, luck
Aphorisms about life and success are the next section of today’s review. Why are some always lucky, while others, no matter how hard they fight, remain outsiders? How to achieve success in life, and not lose your presence of mind in case of failure? Let's listen to the advice of experienced people who have achieved a lot in life, who know the value of themselves and those around them.
“People are interesting creatures. In a world full of wonders, they managed to invent boredom.” Sir Terence Pratchett.
“A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, but an optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” Winston Churchill.
“Three things never come back - time, word, opportunity. Therefore: don’t waste time, choose your words, don’t miss the opportunity.” Confucius.
“The world is made up of slackers who want to have money without working, and idiots who are willing to work without getting rich.” Bernard Show.
“Moderation is a fatal quality. Only extremes lead to success." Oscar Wilde.
“Great success always requires some unscrupulousness.” Oscar Wilde.
“A smart person doesn’t make all the mistakes himself—he gives others a chance.” Winston Churchill.
“In Chinese, the word crisis is made up of two characters—one meaning danger and the other meaning opportunity.” John F. Kennedy.
“A successful person is one who is able to build a strong foundation from the stones that others throw at him.” David Brinkley.
“If you fail, you will be upset; If you give up, you’re doomed.” Beverly Hills.
“If you are going through hell, keep going.” Winston Churchill.
“Be present in your present, otherwise you will miss your life.” Buddha.
“Everyone has something like a dung shovel, with which in moments of stress and trouble you begin to dig into yourself, into your thoughts and feelings. Get rid of it. Burn it. Otherwise, the hole you dig will reach the depths of the subconscious, and then the dead will come out of it at night.” Stephen King.
“People think that they can’t do a lot of things, and then suddenly they discover that they very much can when they find themselves in a hopeless situation.” Stephen King.
“There is a test to determine whether your mission on earth is completed or not. If you’re still alive, it means it’s not finished.” Richard Bach.
“The most important thing is to do at least something to achieve success, and do it right now. This is the most important secret - despite all its simplicity. Everyone has amazing ideas, but rarely does anyone do anything to put them into practice, right now. Not tomorrow. Not in a week. Now. An entrepreneur who achieves success is one who acts, not slows down, and acts now.” Nolan Bushnell.
“When you see a successful business, it means someone once made a bold decision.” Peter Drucker.
“There are three types of idleness: doing nothing, doing poorly, and doing the wrong thing.”
“If you are in doubt about the road, take a travel companion; if you are sure, go alone.”
“Never be afraid to do what you don’t know how to do. Remember, the ark was built by an amateur. Professionals built the Titanic."
Beautiful statuses with meaning
What you think is what you feel. What you feel is what you emit. What you put out is what you get.
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Watch the things that come your way, because one of them may be your future.
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In a person's life, he will meet only 10 people whom he can call his own. But to meet these ten, you need to meet and say goodbye to thousands.
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When they tell you: “just tell me honestly,” you begin to understand that now you have to lie outright
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Don't expect a miracle, create a miracle yourself. And run, run away from pessimists, skeptics, whiners, push them away. They destroy expectations and faith in miracles!
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All our lives we do nothing but borrow from the future to pay the present.
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Drawing dreams is not stupid. Even if they never come true. It's stupid not to dream.
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It seems to me that a copper basin has already sparkled on the horizon, which threatens to cover my entire carefree existence.
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Never tell people about your plans. Just take it and do it. Let them be surprised by the results, not by the chatter.
Love is someone who doesn't want to be happy with you, but someone who just wants you to be happy.
Our life has become so cruel that in every new acquaintance we look for some kind of catch and deception.
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If you really want to do something, you will find a way, if not, you will find an excuse.
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Life has a regular periodicity. If everything goes well then enjoy it, it won't last forever. When everything is bad, don’t despair, it won’t be the same forever.
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A diamond that falls into the dirt will always be a diamond! And the dust that rises to the skies will remain dust!!
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Some girls are not meant to be tamed. They are meant to be free until they meet someone like them, so they can be free together.
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You shouldn't go back to the past, it will never be the same as you remember.
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We always strive to find out the truth and understand some meaning. But maybe this only complicates our lives?
Man and woman – poles or magnets?
Many life aphorisms tell about the essence of gender relations, about the peculiarities of psychology and logic of men and women. We encounter situations where these differences are clearly manifested every day. Sometimes these collisions are quite dramatic, and sometimes they are simply comical.
I hope that these clever aphorisms about living with meaning, describing such situations, will be at least a little useful to you.
“Until the age of eighteen, a woman needs good parents, from eighteen to thirty-five, good looks, from thirty-five to fifty-five, good character, and after fifty-five, good money.” Sophie Tucker.
“It is very dangerous to meet a woman who completely understands you. This usually ends in marriage." Oscar Wilde.
“Mosquitoes are much more humane than some women; if a mosquito drinks your blood, at least it stops buzzing.”
“There is this type of woman - you respect them, admire them, stand in awe of them, but from afar. If they try to get closer, you have to fight them off with a baton.”
“A woman worries about the future until she gets married. A man doesn’t worry about the future until he gets married.” Coco Chanel.
“The prince did not come. Then Snow White spat out the apple, woke up, went to work, got insurance and made a test tube baby.”
“The beloved woman is the one to whom you can cause more suffering.” Etienne Rey.
“All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Lev Tolstoy.
Love and hate, good and evil
Wise aphorisms and quotes about life and love are often born “on the fly”; they are scattered like pearls in all significant literary works. You, dear blog readers, probably have your own favorite phrases about love and other manifestations of human feelings. I suggest you familiarize yourself with my selection of such revelations.
“Of all eternal things, love lasts the shortest.” Jean Moliere.
“It always seems like we are loved because we are so good. But we don’t realize that they love us because those who love us are good.” Lev Tolstoy.
“I don’t have everything I love. But I love everything I have." Lev Tolstoy.
“In love, as in nature, the first cold is most sensitive.” Pierre Buast.
“Evil is only inside us, that is, where it can be taken out from.” Lev Tolstoy.
“Being good wears out a person so much!” Mark Twain.
“You can’t forbid living beautifully. But you can interfere.” Mikhail Zhvanetsky.
“Good always defeats evil, which means whoever wins is good.” Mikhail Zhvanetsky.
Loneliness and crowd, death and eternity
Aphorisms about life with meaning cannot ignore the theme of death, loneliness, everything that frightens us and attracts us at the same time. Man has been trying throughout his centuries-old history to look behind the curtain of life, beyond the edge of existence. We are trying to understand the secrets of space, but we know so little about ourselves! Loneliness helps you look deeper, more closely into yourself, and look detachedly at the world around you. And books and clever phrases from insightful thinkers can also help with this.
“The worst loneliness is when a person is uncomfortable with himself.” Mark Twain.
"Getting old is boring, but it's the only way to live long." Bernard Show.
“If someone appears ready to move mountains, others will surely follow him, ready to break his neck.” Mikhail Zhvanetsky.
“Every person is the smith of his own happiness and the anvil of someone else’s.” Mikhail Zhvanetsky.
“To be able to endure solitude and enjoy it is a great gift.” Bernard Show.
“If a patient really wants to live, doctors are powerless.” Faina Ranevskaya.
“People start thinking about life and money when they come to an end.” Emil Krotky.
Some books about life
- "Life" (Guy de Maupassant)
- “Life and Fate” (V. Grossman)
- “Life on Borrow” (E-M. Remarque)
- "My Life" (Golda Meir)
- “My Life” (L. Trotsky)
- “My life in art” (K. Stanislavsky)
- “People, years, life” (I. Ehrenburg)
- “The Tale of Life” (K. Paustovsky)
- “The Life of Arsenyev” (I. Bunin)
- "An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews" (G. Fielding)
- “The Life and Pirate Adventures of the Glorious Captain Singleton” (D. Defoe)
- “The Life and Death of Manoel dos Santos Garrincha” (I. Goransky)
- “The Life of Klim Samgin” (M. Gorky)
- “The Life of Matvey Kozhemyakin” (M. Gorky)
- “The Life of an Useless Person” (M. Gorky)
- “The Life of Cesare Borgia” (R. Sabatini)
- “The Life of Vasily Kiprianov” (A. Govorov)
- “The Life of Jesus” (F. Mauriac)
- “The Life of Jean Racine” (F. Mauriac)
- “The life and work of Balthasar Cossa” (A. Paradisis)
- “Animal Life” (A. E. Brem)
And this is all about us: different facets, aspects, formats
I understand that the systematization of aphorisms about life with meaning is conditional. Many of them are difficult to fit into specific thematic frameworks. Therefore, I have collected here a variety of interesting and instructive catchphrases.
“Culture is just a thin apple peel above the hot chaos.” Friedrich Nietzsche.
“It’s not those they follow who have the most influence, but those they go against.” Grigory Landau.
“You learn the fastest in three cases: before the age of 7, during training, and when life has driven you into a corner.” S. Covey.
“In America, in the Rocky Mountains, I saw the only reasonable method of artistic criticism. There was a sign above the piano in the bar: “Don’t shoot the pianist—he’s doing the best he can.” Oscar Wilde.
“Whether a particular day will bring you more happiness or more sorrow depends largely on the strength of your resolve. Whether every day of your life will be happy or unhappy is the work of your hands. George Merriam.
“Facts are the sand that grinds in the gears of theory.” Stefan Gorczynski.
“He who agrees with everyone, no one agrees with.” Winston Churchill.
“Communism is like prohibition: a good idea, but it doesn’t work.” Will Rogers.
“When you begin to peer into an abyss for a long time, the abyss begins to peer into you.” Nietzsche.
“In the battle of the elephants, the ants get the worst of it.” Old American proverb.
"Be yourself. Other roles have already been filled.” Oscar Wilde.
Statuses - modern aphorisms for every day
Aphorisms and quotes about life with meaning, short funny ones - this definition can be given to the statuses that we see in the accounts of network users as “mottos” or simply topical slogans, common phrases that are relevant today.
Don’t you want a sediment to appear on your soul? Don't boil!
The only person for whom you are always THIN and HUNGRY is grandma!!!
Remember: good male dogs are still taken apart as puppies!!!
Humanity is at a dead end: what to choose – work or daytime TV programs.
It’s strange: the number of gays is growing, although they cannot reproduce.
You begin to understand the theory of relativity when you stand for half an hour in front of a sign on a store: “Break 10 minutes.”
Patience is the art of hiding impatience.
An alcoholic is a person who is ruined by two things: drinking and the lack of it.
When one person makes you feel bad, you feel sick of the whole world.
Sometimes you really want to retreat into yourself... Taking a couple of bottles of cognac with you...
When you suffer from loneliness, everyone is busy. When you dream of being alone, EVERYONE will visit and call!
My beloved told me that I am a treasure... Now I’m afraid to fall asleep... what if he takes me and buries me somewhere!
Killed with a word - finish with silence.
There is no need to close the mouth of someone who is trying to open your eyes.
You need to live in such a way that it’s embarrassing to tell, but nice to remember!
There are people who run after you, who follow you and who stand for you.
My friend likes apple juice, and I like orange juice, but when we meet we drink vodka.
All guys want to have that one and only girl waiting for them while they sleep with everyone else.
I am married for the fifth time - I understand witches better than the Inquisition.
They say that guys only want sex. Don't believe it! They also ask to eat!
Before you cry into your friend's vest, smell if this vest smells like your boyfriend's perfume!
There is nothing more useful in a household than a guilty husband.
Girls, don't offend guys! They already have an eternal tragedy in their lives: sometimes it’s not to their taste, sometimes they’re too tough, sometimes they can’t afford it!
The best gift for a woman is a gift made by hand... By the hands of a jeweler!
Short stories for the soul - small emotional stories with meaning
Here the end of winter and the end of spring are approximately the same. The first roses serve as a signal. I saw one rose when they were taking me in an ambulance. I closed my eyes, thinking about this rose. In front, the driver and nurse were talking about a new restaurant. There you can eat your fill, and the prices are meager. * * *
At some point I decided that I could become an important person. I felt that death was giving me a reprieve. Then I plunged headlong into life, like a child with his hand in a stocking with baptismal gifts. Then my day came. Wake up, my wife told me. Wake up, she kept repeating.
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It was a fine sunny day. I didn't want to die on a day like this. I always thought that I would die at night, with dogs barking. But I died at noon when a cooking show started on TV.
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They say people most often die at dawn. For years I woke up at four in the morning, stood up and waited for the fateful hour to pass. I opened a book or turned on the TV. Sometimes he went outside. I died at seven in the evening. Nothing special happened. The world has always caused me vague anxiety. And then this anxiety suddenly passed.
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I was ninety-nine. My children came to the nursing home just to talk to me about my centenary celebrations. None of this bothered me at all. I didn't hear them, I only felt my fatigue. And he wanted to die so as not to feel her either. This happened in front of my eldest daughter. She gave me a piece of apple and talked about a cake with the number one hundred on it. The one should be as long as a stick, and the zeros should be like bicycle wheels, she said.
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My wife is still complaining about the doctors who didn’t treat me. Although I always considered myself incurable. Even when Italy won the World Cup, even when I got married.
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By the age of fifty, I had the face of a man who could die any minute. I died at ninety-six, after a long agony.
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What I always enjoyed was the nativity scene. Every year he turned out more and more elegant. I displayed it in front of the door of our house. The door was constantly open. I divided the only room with red and white tape, like when repairing roads. I treated those who stopped to admire the nativity scene with beer. I talked in detail about papier-mâché, musk, sheep, wise men, rivers, castles, shepherds and shepherdesses, caves, the Baby, the guiding star, electrical wiring. Electrical wiring was my pride. I died alone on Christmas night, looking at the nativity scene sparkling with all the lights.
