“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
Kto neberie pravdu vážne v malých záležitostiach, tomu nemožno veriť ani vo veľkých.
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“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”
Počnúc dnešným dňom sa ku každému, koho stretnete, správajte tak, akoby mal do polnoci zomrieť. Venujte im všetku starostlivosť, láskavosť a pochopenie, ktoré dokážete, a robte to bez nároku na odmenu. Váš život už nikdy nebude rovnaký.
“The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.”
Najväčšie mysle sú schopné najväčších nerestí, ako aj najväčších cností.
“A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.”
Sexsymbol sa stáva vecou. Neznášam byť vecou.
Comment on her sex symbol status, quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 40
Kontext: That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather it be sex than some of the things we've got symbols of... I just hate to be a thing.
“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.”
Schopnosť nikdy nedobehne dopyt po nej.
“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
Možno mali pravdu, keď do kníh vkladali lásku. Možno nemohla žiť nikde inde.
“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”
Ľudstvo neznesie príliš veľa reality.
Zdroj: Four Quartets
“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…”
Nie je taký zmätok ako zmätok jednoduchej mysle...
Zdroj: The Great Gatsby
“The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.”
Najlepšie príbehy nevznikajú z " dobro vs. zlo", ale " dobro vs. dobro".
“Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.”
Láska nie je niečo prirodzené. Ale skôr si to vyžaduje disciplínu, sústredenie, trpezlivosť, vieru a prekonanie narcizmu. Nie je to pocit, je to prax.
Zdroj: The Art of Loving
“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.”
Človek dokáže žiť a byť zdravý bez toho, aby zabíjal zvieratá kvôli jedlu. A preto, ak konzumuje mäso, podieľa sa na zabíjaní zvierat len kvôli svojmu apetítu. Takto konať je nemorálne.
Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence (1886)
“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”
Ak sa pokúsite zlyhať a uspejete - ktoré sa vlastne stalo?
“Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.”
Lásku si nemožno vynútiť a nemožno ju vylákať lichotením. Prichádza nehľadaná, nečakaná, nežiadaná.
“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
Netrápte sa svojimi ťažkosťami s matematikou. Môžem vás uistiť, že moje sú ešte väčšie.
Letter to high school student Barbara Lee Wilson (7 January 1943), Einstein Archives 42-606
1940s
“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
Len tí ľudia, ktorí sú schopní silne milovať, môžu trpieť veľkým zármutkom, ale zároveň tá istá potreba milovať slúži aj na potlačenie ich zármutku a hojí ich rany.
“Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”
Srdce jej našepkávalo, že to urobil pre ňu.
Zdroj: Pride and Prejudice
“I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly”
Vždy som ťa milovala. A ak niekto miluje niekoho - miluje celého človeka, takého, aký je, a nie takého, aký by si želal, aby bol.
Varianta: When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Zdroj: Anna Karenina
“What comes from the heart goes to the heart”
Čo vychádza zo srdca, ide k srdcu.
“Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??”
To, že raz zlyháš, neznamená, že zlyháš vo všetkom. Skúšaj ďalej, vydrž
a vždy si ver. Pretože ak si ty neveríš, tak kto bude?
“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
Nádej je dobrými raňajkami, ale zlou večerou.
No. 36
Apophthegms (1624)
Varianta: Money is a great servant but a bad master.
“All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.”
Love
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
Žiadny človek, ktorý požaduje vaše mlčanie alebo vám upiera právo na rast, nie je vaším skutočným priateľom.
“All great achievements require time.”
Všetky veľké úspechy si vyžadujú čas.
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
Dnes si sám sebou, najviac ako sa dá. Neexistuje nikto, kto by bol viac ako ty, než ty sám.
Varianta: There is no one alive who
is Youer than You!
Zdroj: Happy Birthday to You!
“This is the final test of a gentleman: His respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.”
Toto je posledná skúška džentlmena: jeho úcta k tým, ktorí mu nemôžu byť nijako užitoční.
“A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.”
Skratkou k bohatstvu je odbremeniť sa od svojich túžob.
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
História bude ku mne zhovievavá, pretože som sa odhodlal ju písať.
“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
Pravý pocit zo seba samého mám len vtedy, keď som neznesiteľne nešťastný.
“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
Vynechajte všetky tie výkričníky. Výkričník je ako smiať sa vlastnému vtipu.
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
Vlastníctvo vedomostí nezabíja zmysel pre úžas a záhadu. Vždy je tu viac záhad.
“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”
Čo hľadá veľký muž, je v ňom samom. Čo hľadá obyčajný muž, je v iných.
“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”
Skutočným nebezpečenstvom nie je to, že počítače začnú myslieť ako ľudia, ale že ľudia začnú myslieť ako počítače.
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.”
Ak chcete žiť šťastný život, spájajte ho s cieľom, nie s ľuďmi alebo predmetmi.
As quoted by Ernst Straus in Einstein: A Centenary Volume by A.P. French (1980), p. 32.
Attributed in posthumous publications
Varianta: "if you want to be a happy man, you should tie your life to a goal, not to other people and not to things." A quote from Ernst Straus' memoir of Einstein in Albert Einstein: Historical and Cultural Perspectives edited by Gerald Holton and Yehuda Elkana (1982), p. 420 http://books.google.com/books?id=CNuwE3NL1QgC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA420#v=onepage&q&f=false
“To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero you're the beautiful one it's society who's ugly.”
Pre všetky dievčatá, ktoré si myslia, že sú tučné, len preto, že nemáte číslo nula, ste krásne, to spoločnosť je tá, ktorá je škaredá.
Attributed to Monroe in self-help books and on social media, this quotation is of unknown origin and date.
Misattributed
“Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.”
Šťastie je odmenou za to, že žijeme podľa najvyššieho práva, ktoré poznáme.
Zdroj: Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit
“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
Pevne verím v šťastie, a príde mi, že čím tvrdšie pracujem, tým viac ho mám.
Has been attributed to Stephen Leacock's "Literary Lapses" (1910), but the quote does not appear in the Project Gutenberg edition http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6340/6340.txt of this work.
Misattributed
Varianta: I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Varianta: I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
“The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.”
Strata priateľa je ako strata končatiny; čas môže zahojiť bolesť z rany, ale strata sa nedá napraviť.
“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
Otázka, ktorá ma niekedy doháňa k popletenosti: Som ja alebo ostatní šialení?
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
Najväčším problémom komunikácie je ilúzia, že už k nej došlo.
The attribution to Shaw comes from Leadership Skills for Managers (2000) by Marlene Caroselli, p. 71. But this quote seems more likely to come from William H. Whyte. The Biggest Problem in Communication Is the Illusion That It Has Taken Place, Quote Investigator, 2014-08-31, 2015-11-09 http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/31/illusion/,
Misattributed
“I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.”
Žijem pre úspech, nie pre to, aby som potešil vás alebo niekoho iného.
“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
Ľudia si zrejme neuvedomujú, že ich názor na svet je zároveň priznaním ich charakteru.
The Conduct of Life, Chapter 6, “Worship,” p. 214
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
Tí, ktorí snívajú cez deň, si uvedomujú mnohé veci, ktoré unikajú tým, ktorí snívajú len v noci.
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
Nemôžete obviňovať gravitáciu za to, že ste sa zamilovali.
Varianta: You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
V živote existuje iba jedna dobrá vec, a tou je láska.
"The Love of Long Ago"
Zdroj: The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant
Kontext: There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
“The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.”
Mraky rýchlo mizli a nechávali hviezdy umierať. Noc vyschla.
Zdroj: The Magnetic Fields
“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.”
Dosiahnutie jedného cieľa je východiskom k ďalšiemu.
Zdroj: Democracy and Education
“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”
Môžeš mať mier alebo môžeš mať slobodu. Ale nerátaj s tým, že budeš mať oba naraz.
Time Enough for Love (1973)
“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”
Jesť chlieb bez nádeje znamená pomaly umierať hladom.
"To the Young"
Zdroj: To My Daughters, With Love (1967)
“The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive, is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.”
Najvyšším stupňom morálnej kultúry, ku ktorému môžeme dospieť, je poznanie, že by sme mali ovládať svoje myšlienky.
volume I, chapter III: "Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals — continued", page 101 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=114&itemID=F937.1&viewtype=image
The Descent of Man (1871)
“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
Je oveľa tmavšie, keď svetlo zhasne, ako by bolo, keby nikdy nesvietilo.
Zdroj: The Winter of Our Discontent
“Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.”
Všetko, čo sa deje, sa deje tak, ako má, a ak budete pozorne sledovať, zistíte, že je to tak.
“How is it possible to have a civil war?”
Ako je možné rozpútať občiansku vojnu?
“If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.”
Ak sa raz za čas nepomýlite, znamená to, že nerobíte nič inovatívne.
“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”
Odvážte sa žiť život, o ktorom ste sami snívali. Choďte vpred a zrealizujte svoje sny.
“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”
Neustále úsilie - nie sila alebo inteligencia - je kľúčom k uvoľneniu nášho potenciálu.
First mentioned as "Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking and using our potential." according to Quote Investigator in the 1981 book The Reflecting Pond: Meditations for Self-Discovery by Liane Cordes, Quote Page 89, Hazelden Publishing, Center City, Minnesota. For further research on this quote see: Quote Investigator (August 31, 2013): Continuous Effort — Not Strength or Intelligence — Is the Key to Unlocking and Using Our Potential Winston Churchill? Liane Cordes? Liane Cardes? Apocryphal? Archived http://archive.is/E0M12 on June 2, 2020.
Zdroj: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/08/21/effort/ from the original
“Solitude sometimes is best society.”
Samota je niekedy tá najlepšia spoločnosť.
Zdroj: Paradise Lost
“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”
Nikdy neprekonáš oceán, keď sa budeš báť, že stratíš breh z dohľadu.
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
Človek je odsúdený na slobodu; pretože akonáhle je vrhnutý do sveta, je zodpovedný za všetko, čo robí.
Being and Nothingness (1943)
“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.”
Vedela som, že patrím verejnosti a svetu, nie preto, že som talentovaná alebo dokonca krásna, ale preto, že som nikdy nepatrila nikomu a ničomu inému.
“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”
Žiadny pesimista ešte neobjavil tajomstvo hviezd, nepreplával neznámou krajinou ani neotvoril nové dvere pre ľudského ducha.
“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
Vojny sú slabým dlátom na vytesávanie mierových zajtrajškov.
“But man is not made for defeat... a man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
Ale muž nie je stvorený na porážku... muž môže byť zničený, ale nie porazený.
Varianta: A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Zdroj: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
Priateľstvo poznačí život ešte hlbšie ako láska. Láska sa môže zvrhnúť na posadnutosť, priateľstvo nikdy nie je nič iné ako zdieľanie.
“Without literature, life is hell.”
Bez literatúry je život peklom.
“Perserverence is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”
Vytrvalosť je veľkým prvkom úspechu. Ak len dostatočne dlho a hlasno klopeš na bránu, určite niekoho zobudíš.
“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”
Priateľstvo zlepšuje šťastie a zmierňuje biedu tým, že zdvojnásobuje našu radosť a rozdeľuje náš smútok.
“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”
Rady sú ako sneh; čím jemnejšie padajú, tým dlhšie sa na ne pozeráme a tým hlbšie sa vnárajú do našej mysle.
“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
Osemdesiat percent úspechu spočíva v tom, že sa ukážete.
“We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting”
Sme ako ruže, ktoré sa nikdy neobťažovali kvitnúť, keď sme mali kvitnúť, a je to, akoby sa slnku znechutilo čakanie.
“I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better.”
Nemôžem si predĺžiť dni, preto sa snažím, aby boli čo najlepšie.
“I never consider a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”
Nikdy nepovažujem rozdielnosť názorov v politike, náboženstve či filozofii za dôvod na to, aby som sa od priateľa vzdialila.
As quoted in The Life and Writings of Thomas Jefferson : Including All of His Important Utterances on Public Questions (1900) by Samuel E. Forman, p. 429
Posthumous publications
“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”
Tragédia je nástrojom pre živých na získanie múdrosti, nie návodom na život.
"Conflict in Vietnam and at Home" speech http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rfk/filmmore/ps_ksu.html at Kansas State University on March 18, 1968 as part of the Alfred M. Landon Lectures on Public Issues.
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
Väčšina ľudí v skutočnosti nechce slobodu, pretože sloboda zahŕňa zodpovednosť a väčšina ľudí sa bojí zodpovednosti.
Zdroj: Civilization and Its Discontents
“He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.”
Mal výraz človeka, ktorý vypil pohár života a na jeho dne našiel mŕtveho chrobáka.
“Shallow men believe in luck.”
Povrchní ľudia veria v šťastie.
Worship
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
Musíte zostať opití od písania, aby vás realita nemohla zničiť.
Zdroj: Zen in the Art of Writing
“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”
Som optimista - nezdá sa, že byť niečím iným, by k niečomu bolo.
Lord Mayor’s Banquet, Guildhall, London (9 November 1954) The Unwritten Alliance, page 195, Columbia University, NY (1966),page 195,
Post-war years (1945–1955)
“Things do not change; we change.”
Veci sa nemenia. My sa meníme.
Zdroj: Walden
“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”
“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost”
Ľudia sa pri hľadaní naplnenia a šťastia vydávajú rôznymi cestami. To, že nie sú na vašej ceste, neznamená, že sa stratili.
“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
Hrabajúc sa v našej duši, často vykopávame niečo, čo by v nej malo ležať nepozorovane.
Zdroj: Anna Karenina
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward.”
Najťažšie je rozhodnutie konať. Zvyšok je len o vytrvalosti. Obavy sú papierové tigre. Môžete urobiť čokoľvek, pre čo sa rozhodnete. Môžete konať, aby ste zmenili a ovládli svoj život a jeho napredovanie. Proces je sám osebe odmenou.
The Official Website of Amelia Earhart - Quotes http://www.ameliaearhart.com/about/quotes.html
“There’s an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too many reasons to do so.”
Existuje nevyslovený zákon, že by ste nikdy nemali začať plakať, ak na to máte príliš veľa dôvodov.
Zdroj: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 68
War As I Knew It (1947) "Reflections and Suggestions"
“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.”
Sex-appel je z 50% to, čo máte, a z 50% to, čo si ľudia myslí, že máte.
As quoted in Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984) Leslie Halliwell
Varianta: Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
“Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.”
Prijmite výzvy, aby ste mohli pocítiť radosť z víťazstva.
As quoted in Textbook of Phacoemulsification (1988) by William F. Maloney and Lincoln Grindle, p. 79
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his picture.”
Každý umelec ponorí štetec do svojej duše a namaľuje do obrazu svoju vlastnú povahu.
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
Sand and Foam (1926)
“Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games”
Včerajšie homeruny nevyhrávajú dnešné zápasy.
The earliest quotes similar to this are presented as unattributed folk wisdom, such as this example from 1959:
As Brother Allen of Newsweek indicated, it has been fun, but don't try to rest on your laurels. Always remember, “YESTERDAY’S HOME-RUN DOESN’T COUNT IN TODAY’S GAME,” and today’s game is well under way.
The quote does not begin to be attributed to Babe Ruth until the 1980s, nearly 30 years after its first appearance.
Disputed
Zdroj: F. N. Abbott, "On Your Marks", in [The Palm, vol lxxix, no. 1 (February 1959), Harry L., Bird (ed.), 1959, Champaign, IL, Alpha Tau Omega, 17, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuc.1744313v0079?urlappend=%3Bseq=19]
Zdroj: https://books.google.com/books?id=cQsKAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Yesterday%27s+home+runs%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Ruth
“Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.”
Ešte nechápete, že ak sa slobodný človek spoľahne na svoje inštinkty a zotrvá pri nich, obrovský svet sa k nemu priblíži.
Nature, Addresses and Lectures. The American Scholar
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
Varianta: If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. 6.
“When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.”
Keď je vec hotová, je hotová. Neohliadajte sa späť. Pozerajte sa dopredu na svoj ďalší cieľ.
As quoted in "George C. Marshall and the Marshall Plan: A Model of Transformational Diplomacy" (2005) by Tom Callahan http://web.archive.org/web/20050616023457/http://www.state.gov/r/pa/dc/rks/47848.htm
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
Ťažkosti majú povzbudiť, nie odradiť. Ľudský duch má rásť a silnieť vďaka konfliktom.
“Where there is great love there are always miracles.”
Kde je veľká láska, tam sa vždy dejú zázraky.
Book I, Ch. 4
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
“The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.”
Predstavivosť nie je talent niektorých ľudí, ale je to zdravie každého človeka.
Poetry and Imagination
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
“The pain passes but the beauty remains.”
Bolesť pominie, ale krása zostáva.
As quoted in: Instituto Nacional de Previsión (Spain) (1974). 6.o Congreso Internacional de Medicina Fisica: 2-6 julio 1974. p. 424
Renoir replied to Matisse, who had asked him why he persisted in painting at the expense of such torture.
undated quotes
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.”
Úspešný človek je taký, ktorý dokáže postaviť pevné základy z tehál, ktoré ostatní po ňom hádžu.
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”
Pekný citát je diamantom na prste duchaplného človeka a kamienkom v ruke hlupáka.
Part 1, LXXIV
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)
“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to.”
Ak chcete pochopiť srdce a myseľ človeka, nepozerajte sa na to, čo už dosiahol, ale na to, o čo sa usiluje.
As quoted in Become a Conscious Creator: A Return to Self-Empowerment (2007) by Lisa Ford, p. 44
“Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.”
Súcit a tolerancia nie sú znakom slabosti, ale znakom sily.
As quoted in Words Of Wisdom: Selected Quotes by His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2001) edited by Margaret Gee, p. 71.