“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
Vďačnosť je nielen najväčšou cnosťou, ale je aj rodičom všetkých ostatných cností.
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“Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”
Mlčanie v pravý čas je múdrosť a je lepšie ako akákoľvek reč.
“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed”
Požehnaný je človek, ktorý nič neočakáva, pretože sa nikdy nesklame.
Letter, written in collaboration with John Gay, to William Fortescue (23 September 1725).
A similar remark was made in a letter to John Gay (16 October 1727): "I have many years magnify'd in my own mind, and repeated to you a ninth Beatitude, added to the eight in the Scripture: Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
Varianta: Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Kontext: "Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth Beatitude which a man of wit (who, like a man of wit, was a long time in gaol) added to the eighth.
“Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady”
Tvoje oblečenie by malo byť dosť priliehavé, aby ukázalo, že si žena, ale dosť voľné, aby ukázalo, že si dáma.
“O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!”
Ó, akú zamotanú sieť utkáme,
keď sa najprv snažíme klamať!
Canto VI, st. 17.
Varianta: Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
Zdroj: Marmion (1808)
“If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.”
Ak A znamená v živote úspech, potom A = x + y + z. Práca je x, zábava je y a z znamená držať hubu.
Said to Samuel J Woolf, Berlin, Summer 1929. Cited with additional notes in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice and Freeman Dyson, Princeton UP (2010) p 230
1920s
Varianta: If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
“Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.”
Ryšavé vlasy, pane, sú podľa mňa nebezpečné.
Zdroj: Very Good, Jeeves!
“The covers of this book are too far apart.”
Obálky tejto knihy sú príliš vzdialené od seba.
“Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one… I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity.”
Prosím, nerobte si zo mňa srandu. Ukončíte rozhovor s tým, v čo ja verím. Nevadí mi robiť vtipy, ale nechcem vyzerať ako jeden … Chcem byť umelcom, herečkou s integritou.
Kontext: Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity... If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.
Her last taped interview, with Richard Meryman, published in LIFE magazine a few days before her death. (3 August 1962); quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) <!-- p. 42 -->
“And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.”
A budem ďalej stáť na oceáne, kým sa nezačnem potápať.
“The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”
Vzdialenosť nič neznamená, keď má človek motív.
Zdroj: Pride and Prejudice
“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
Sny sú mierkou našich charakterov.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Wednesday
“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”
Na pochopenie múdrosti je potrebná múdrosť: hudba nie je ničím, ak je publikum hluché.
A Preface to Morals (1929)
“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”
Ak sú ľudia dobrí iba preto, že sa boja trestu a dúfajú v odmenu, potom sme naozaj úbohá spoločnosť.
“Friends show their love in times of trouble.”
Priatelia prejavujú svoju lásku v ťažkých chvíľach.
“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
Keby každý bojoval za svoje vlastné presvedčenia, neexistovala by vojna.
Zdroj: War and Peace
“Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.”
Intuícia je skutočne náhle ponorenie duše do univerzálneho prúdu života.
Zdroj: The Alchemist
“Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.”
Pred svadbou, dievča musí pomilovať muža, aby ho mohla držať. Po svadbe ho musí držať, aby sa s ním mohla milovať.
Varianta: Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
Chytrý človek vyrieši problém. Múdry človek sa tomu vyhýba.
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
To, čo získate dosiahnutím svojich cieľov, nie je také dôležité, ako to, kým sa stanete ich dosiahnutím.
Original from Zig Ziglar https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zig_Ziglar
Misattributed
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
Za každú minútu hnevu, strácate šesťdesiat sekúnd šťastia.
No known source in Emerson's works; first found as a piece of anonymous folk-wisdom in a 1936 newspaper column:
: Every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.
:* Junius, "Office Cat" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/85995624/, The Daily Freeman [Kingston, NY] (30 December 1936), p. 6
Misattributed
“It's a match made in heaven… by a retarded angel.”
Je to vzťah stvorený v nebi ... retardovaným anjelom.
“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”
Vábenie vzdialených a ťažkých vecí je klamlivé. Veľká príležitosť je práve tam, kde sa nachádzate.
“In a controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.”
Vo chvíli, keď pociťujeme hnev, sme sa už prestali usilovať o pravdu a začali sme sa usilovať o seba.
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Každý priateľ v nás predstavuje svet, ktorý sa zrodil až po jeho príchode, a len vďaka takýmto stretnutia sa rodia nové svety.
March 1937
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Zdroj: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
“The beautiful is always bizarre.”
Krása je vždy bizarná.
Varianta: The Beautiful is always strange.
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
Ak máte záhradu a knižnicu, máte všetko, čo potrebujete.
To Varro, in Ad Familiares IX, 4
“I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoy the process.”
Neverím v neúspech. Nie je to zlyhanie, ak si ten proces užívate.
“There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.”
Existujú dva spôsoby, ako ľahko prekĺznuť životom: všetkému veriť alebo o všetkom pochybovať. Oba spôsoby nás zachránia pred premýšľaním.
“You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”
V živote sa k vám správajú tak, ako ich naučíte, aby sa k vám správali.
“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.”
Svet je guľatý a miesto, ktoré sa môže zdať ako koniec, môže byť tiež len začiatkom.
“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”
Pýtate sa ma, čo ma núti hovoriť? zvláštna vec; moje svedomie.
Zdroj: Les Misérables
“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
Ak myšlienka nie je spočiatku absurdná, potom nemá nádej.
“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
Byť skvelý znamená byť nepochopený.
Zdroj: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
Život nenapodobňuje umenie, ale špatnú televíziu.
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
Hrdina nie je udatnejší ako obyčajný človek, ale je udatnejší päť minút dlhšie.
“Never, never, never give in!”
Nikdy, nikdy ale nikdy sa nevzdávajte.
Varianta: Never, never, never give up.
“If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?”
Ak sa niekto s viacerými osobnosťami vyhráža zabitím, považuje sa to za rukojemnícku situáciu?
“Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.”
Našou úlohou je oslobodiť sa, a to rozšírením nášho kruhu súcitu, aby sme prijali všetky živé tvory a prírodu v celej jej kráse.
“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
Prvou metódou, ako odhadnúť inteligenciu vládcu, je pozrieť sa na mužov, ktorých má okolo seba.
Zdroj: The Prince
“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”
Žiadny človek v skutočnosti nepozná ostatných ľudí. Môže jedine predpokladať, že tí ostatní sú jemu podobní.
Zdroj: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Chapter III
“My friends are my "estate."”
Moji priatelia sú mojím "majetkom".
Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.
Letter to Samuel Bowles (August 1858 or 1859), letter #193 of The Letters of Emily Dickinson (1958), edited Thomas H. Johnson, associate editor Theodora Ward
Varianta: My friends are my "estate." Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.
“Sex without love is an empty experience. But as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.”
Sex bez lásky je prázdny zážitok, ale zo všetkých prázdnych zážitkov, je to jeden z najlepších.
Love and Death (1975)
“Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.”
Základom hojnosti v živote je robiť to, čo milujete.
“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”
Ale keď silní boli príliš slabí na to, aby ublížili slabým, slabí museli byť dosť silní, na to aby odišli.
pg 71
Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body
“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
Zlo neprestáva byť zlým len preto, že sa na ňom podieľa väčšina.
Zdroj: A Confession
“God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.”
Boh mlčí. Teraz len aby človek stíchol.
“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”
Je viac hanebné nedôverovať priateľom, ako sa nimi nechať oklamať.
Reportedly in: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Mistrust, Conspiracy, and Lack of Internet Ethics (1980) Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninety-second Congress. p. 32
Attributed
“Life is a gift and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”
Život je dar a ponúka nám privilégium, príležitosť a zodpovednosť vrátiť niečo späť tým, že sa staneme niečím viac.
“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”
Ten, kto pozná všetky odpovede, nedostal všetky otázky.
“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”
Žiadna armáda nevydrží silu nápadu, ktorého čas nastal.
Varianta: No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come
“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
Ak hľadáte dokonalosť, nikdy nebudete spokojní.
Zdroj: Anna Karenina
“Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”
Milosrdenstvo je zlatá reťaz, ktorou je spoločnosť spojená.
“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
Chceš vedieť, kým naozaj si? Nepýtaj sa. Konaj! Tvoje skutky ťa charakterizujú a vymedzia.
Varianta: Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
Nebol som v skutočnosti zamilovaný, ale cítil som akúsi zvedavosť.
Zdroj: The Great Gatsby
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
Ak by ste boli skutočným hľadačom pravdy, je potrebné, aby ste aspoň raz v živote pochybovali, pokiaľ je možné, o všetkom.
Original Latin: Veritatem inquirenti, semel in vita de omnibus, quantum fieri potest, esse dubitandum
Variant translation: If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Principles of Philosophy (1644)
Varianta: In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life, to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
Ľudia ma chápu tak zle, že ani nepochopia moju sťažnosť, že mi nerozumejú.
Varianta: People understand me so little that they do not even understand when I complain of being misunderstood.
Zdroj: The Journals of Kierkegaard
“To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.”
Ak chcete letieť tak rýchlo ako myšlienka, teda kamkoľvek, musíte začať s vedomím, že ste už dorazili.
Zdroj: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
Amatéri sedia a čakajú na inšpiráciu, zvyšok nás sa jednoducho zdvihne a ide pracovať.
Zdroj: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.”
Niekedy nevedela, čoho sa bojí, po čom túži: či sa bojí alebo si želá, čo bolo alebo čo bude - a presne to, po čom túži, nevedela.
Zdroj: Anna Karenina
“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.”
Každý človek sa stane prekliatym bláznom aspoň na päť minút. Múdrosť spočíva v neprekročení limitu.
The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)
Zdroj: The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days
“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”
Najbolestivejším stavom bytia je pripomínanie si budúcnosti, najmä tej, ktorú nikdy nebudete mať.
“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”
Miloval som ťa ako muž miluje ženu, ktorej sa nikdy nedotkne, len jej píše a uchováva jej malé fotografie.
Zdroj: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.”
Chcem, aby si bol slabý. Taký slabý ako ja.
Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
na čom najviac záleží, je spôsob akým prechádzate ohňom
“Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.”
Keď sa na to pozriem spätne, myslím, že som sa neustále pretvarovala. Jednak to znamenalo, že som mohla žiť v zaujímavejšom svete, než je ten okolo mňa.
“Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?”
Ktorú zo všetkých mojich dôležitých hlúpostí vám poviem ako prvú?
“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”
Buďte vždy múdrejší ako ľudia, ktorí vás zamestnávajú.
“Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.”
Sebadôvera je to, čo máte ešte pred tým, než pochopíte problematiku.
“Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”
Nezožierajte sa v odmietaní, ani nehromžite proti zlým ľuďom, ale ospevujte krásu dobrých.
Success
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)
“If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.”
Ak začnete sľubovať to, čo ešte nemáte, stratíte chuť pracovať na tom, aby ste ho dosiahli.
Zdroj: The Alchemist
“You really can change the world if you care enough.”
Ak vám na tom dostatočne záleží, naozaj môžete zmeniť svet.
“When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.”
Ak je priateľstvo skutočné, nie je to sklenené vlákno alebo mráz, ale najsilnejšia vec, akú poznáme.
Zdroj: Essays: First Series
“A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.”
Osoba, ktorá túži opustiť miesto, kde žije, je nešťastná osoba.
pg 27
Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight
“Life is a traveling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.”
Život je cesta na okraj poznania a potom skok z neho.
“I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.”
Nikdy v živote som neurobil chybu, aspoň nie takú, ktorú by som potom nemohol vysvetliť.
Zdroj: Under The Deodars
“In times of war, the law falls silent.”
V čase vojny zákon mlčí.
“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
Najbežnejšou formou zúfalstva je nebyť tým, kým ste.
“The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”
Prvá a posledná vec, ktorú musíte na tomto svete spraviť, je vydržať a nenechať sa ním zničiť.
“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
Buď zlý, ale aspoň nebuď klamár, podvodník!
Zdroj: Anna Karenina
“If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.”
Ak chcete, aby sa veci zmenili, možno je riešením, aby ste sa sami zmenili.
“Love is a better master than duty.”
“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”
Choďte na to hneď. Budúcnosť nie je nikomu sľúbená.
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.”
Väčšina tieňov života je spôsobená tým, že stojíme na svojom vlastnom slnku.
“I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.”
Na stretnutia vždy meškám - niekedy aj dve hodiny. Snažil som sa zmeniť svoje praktiky, ale veci, ktoré ma nútia meškať, sú príliš silné a príliš príjemné.
“I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.”
Som rozhodne žena a užívam si to.
“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
Zmeňte svoj život ešte dnes. Nehazardujte s budúcnosťou, konajte teraz a bezodkladne.
Attributed
Zdroj: As quoted in The Book of Positive Quotations (2007) by John Cook, p. 548
“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”
Zriedka, veľmi zriedka si ľudia niečo medzi sebou objasnia úplne pravdivo alebo otvorene; len málokedy sa stáva, že niečo nezostane skryté alebo že nedôjde k nejakej drobnej chybe.
Zdroj: Emma
“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”
V Amerike nemáme vládu väčšiny. Máme vládu takej väčšiny, ktorá sa na vláde podieľa.
“There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.”
Sú chvíle, keď sa tie oči vo vašom mozgu pozerajú späť na vás.
Zdroj: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.”
To, že raz zlyháte, neznamená, že zlyháte vo všetkom.
“Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure”
Šťastie spočíva v častom opakovaní vecí, ktoré vám spôsobujú radosť.
“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
Najväčší kompliment, ktorý som kedy dostal, bol, keď sa ma niekto spýtal na môj názor a vypočul si moju odpoveď.
Life Without Principle (1863)
Kontext: The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. I am surprised, as well as delighted, when this happens, it is such a rare use he would make of me, as if he were acquainted with the tool.
“Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.”
Smejte sa často, dlho a hlasno. Smejte sa tak silno, kým vám nedôjde vzduch.
“Joy came always after pain.”
Radosť prichádzala vždy až po bolesti.
“If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”
Keby sme sa prestali snažiť byť šťastní, mohli by sme sa mať celkom dobre.
“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.”
Sny prechádzajú do reality činov. Z činov opäť vychádza sen a táto vzájomná závislosť vytvára najvyššiu formu života.
“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.”
Nikto z nás nevie, čo sa stane o minútu, no napriek tomu sa uberáme ďalej. Pretože dôverujeme. Pretože máme vieru.
Zdroj: Brida
“Those who do not weep, do not see.”
Kto neplače, ten nevidí.
Zdroj: Les Misérables
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
Nápady sú ako králiky. Zopár ich dostaneš a naučíš sa, ako s nimi naložiť... a čoskoro ich budeš mať za tucet.
Interview with Robert van Gelder (April 1947), as quoted in John Steinbeck : A Biography (1994) by Jay Parini