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ADDICTION

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. Carl Jung

I have a writing addiction. Prince

I think I have an adrenaline addiction, no question about that.Tom Waits

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about. Keith Richards



ADULTERY

Adultery is the application of democracy to love. H. L. Mencken 

There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering. Helen Fisher

Chaste love happens all the time, far more frequently than adultery. A. Aciman

ADVICE

It's funny how I'm good at giving advise to others but when it comes to helping myself, I just don't know what to do.

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway. Erma Bombec

AGE

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Mark Twain

As I grow older / wiser, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do (with their time). Andrew Carnegie 

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. Kurt Vonnegut

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford

ALCOHOL

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. George Bernard Shaw

I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful. Jim Carrey

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled. Ovid 

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy. Frank Sinatra

AMBITION

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. Friedrich Nietzsche

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child. Tim Burton 

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. Bill Bradley

AMERICAN DREAM

The American dream is dead for the majority of America. Suze Orman

For many, the American dream has become a nightmare. Bernie Sanders

The American dream is still to own your home. Barry Sternlicht

Everyone must have a shot at the American Dream. Howard Schultz

ANIMALS

God looks after children, animals and idiots. Lou Holtz 

Anyone who has never owned a dog can't know what loving and being loved mean. Arthur Schopenhauer

ARMY

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. Alexander the Great

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better. Winston Churchill

ART

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. Vincent Van Gogh 

We have art in order not to die of the truth. Friedrich Nietzsche

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. George Bernard Shaw

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. Oscar Wilde

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. Friedrich Nietzsche

ARTISTS

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. Oscar Wilde 

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way; things I had no words for. Georgia O'Keeffe



ATTITUDE

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. Epictetus 

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. William James

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. Joel Osteen

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery




ATTRACTION

Men aren't attracted to me by my mind. They are attracted by what I don't mind. Gypsy Rose Lee.

Other versions:

Men are not attracted to me by my mind, but by what I don't mind.




BACHELORS


Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. H. L. Mencken

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.Finley Peter Dunne

BEAUTY

The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows and the beauty of a woman only grows with (the) passing years. Audrey Hepburn

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.  Waldo Emerson

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. Albert Camus

Beauty is the promise of happiness. Edmund Burke

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. Aldous Huxley

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. Anne Frank

Orher versions:

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. 

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman. Chanakya

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. David Hume

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. H. G. Wells

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. A. Bierce



BELIEFS

It is easier to fight for your beliefs than live up to them.

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean. Tony Robbins

I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs. Richard Dawkins
There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. Frank A. Clark

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking. Wayne Dyer

Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.' Zig Ziglar

BOREDOM

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way. Hedy Lamarr

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. Arthur Schopenhauer

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. Soren Kierkegaard

Boredom: the desire for desires. Leo Tolstoy

For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom.Sushant. Singh Rajput

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. Richard Bach

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. Arthur Schopenhauer

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. Thomas Szasz

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering. Madame de Stael

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. Jean Baudrillard

BORROWING & LENDING

Neither A lender nor a borrower be. Shakespeare. 

CALIFORNIA

I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.' Kamala Harris

CAREER

Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career. Jada Pinkett Smith

I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work. Maria Sharapova

It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do. Holland Taylor

CARE

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. Earl Wilson.

CHARACTERS

CHARITY

Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity. A. Camus.

Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived. Simon Wiesenthal

CHARM

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer "yes" without having asked any clear question. Albert Camus. 

If you have charm, you don't need to have anything else and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. 

CHILDHOOD

Genius is childhood recalled at will. Charles Baudelaire

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. Sigmund Freud

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.J. Robert Oppenheimer

CINEMA

CLASSICS

CONFIDENCE

CRITICISM


No matter how well you do, no matter how successful you are, they're always going to criticize you. Todd Bridges ...

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. Benjamin Franklin

CYNICISM

DATING

DEATH

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. Woody Allen 

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. Mark Twain

DIFFICULTIES

DIVORCE

DRUGS 

DUTY

I know of only one duty, and that is to love. A. Camus.

EGO

FAILURE

FAME

FAMILY



FEAR

FEMINISM

FEMININITY

FREEDOM

What's the point of / in fighting for freedom if we're not free enough to know whether we're being lied to or not?

FRIENDS

FUTURE

GENIUS

GOALS

I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.



GOD

GOSSIP

GUILT

HAPPINESS

The happiness of your life depends on / upon the quality of your thoughts. Marcus Aurelius

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius

A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for. Marcus Aurelius

I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint. Frida Kahlo

HATES



HATERS


I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life. Michelle Obama

HEDONISM

HISTORY

HUMOR

HUSBANDS

IGNORANCE

What if I don't know what apocalypse means? It's not the end of the world. 

IMAGINATION

This world is but a canvas to our imagination. Henry David Thoreau

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. Blaise Pascal

IMPORTANCE

Nothing matters very much and very few things matter at all.

Other versions:

Nothing matters very much and most things don't matter at all. 

No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. Mary Kay Ash



IMPOSSIBLE

It always seems impossible until it is done.  Nelson Mandela



INJURY

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. Marcus Aurelius

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. Marcus Aurelius

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing. Muhammad Ali

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember. Khalil Gibran

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him. Henry James

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is a point at which even justice does injury. Sophocles



INTERRUPT

Please don't interrupt me when I'm interrupting. 

JUDGEMENT

Don't wait for the last judgement. It takes place every day. A. Camus
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa



KNOWLEDGE

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche

LIFE

(It is) true: We love live, not because we're used to living but because we're used to loving. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). Thus Spake Zarathustra.

Other versions of this quote:

It is true, we love life; not because we are wont to live, but because we are wont to love.

It is true, we love life, (but) not because we want to live, but because we want to love. 
 

We live as we dream, alone. Joseph Conrad. (Heart of darkness).

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is what happens to you / us while we're (busy) making other plans. Beautiful boy (the Beatles)

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny. Stephen Hawking.



LIFE-CHANGING



LIVING ALONE

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame. Mason Cooley 



LONELINESS LOOKS

LOVE

Love and do what you want / will - St Augustine (A sermon on love).

Love is three quarters curiosity. Giacomo Casanova


Love yourself no matter what! Betty W. Phillips, Ph.D., Psychology

LOVE & HATE

Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. G.  William Russell

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. ... People will either love you for it or hate you for it. Eminen

MARRIAGE BY MEN

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway. Joey Adams

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. Abraham Lincoln

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. Oscar Wilde

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. Henny Youngman

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. Clint Eastwood

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. Alexander Pope

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to  converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. Friedrich Nietzsche

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. Franklin



MARRIAGE BY WOMEN

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. Zsa Zsa Gabor.

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. Marilyn Monroe.

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of. Mae West


Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. Mae West

MEN & WOMEN

MEN BY MEN

MEN BY WOMAN

I don't mind living in a men's world as long as I can be a woman in it. M.M.

MONEY

To be clever enough to have all that money one must be stupid enough to want it. The wisdom of father brown.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. James Baldwin

Doctor, I keep getting these pains in my wallet. 

PERSONALITY

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. Oscar Wilde.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Bruce Lee

Humility is no substitute for a good personality. Fran Lebowitz

PEOPLE

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die. Plato

PHILOSOPHY

Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.' Zig Ziglar 

Our philosophy is that we care about people first. Mark Zuckerberg

My philosophy in life is, decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for. Lou Holtz

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. Anton Chekhov 

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. Albert Camus 

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. Plato 

PLEASURE

It's a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain. 

POLITICIANS 

A politician is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a (tactful) way that you’ll look forward with pleasure to making the trip.

Other versions:

A politician / diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell and leave you looking forward to the trip.

POLITICS

POWER



PRINCIPLES

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. Oscar Wilde 

Those are my principles, (and) if you don't like them... (well), I have others. Groucho Marx 

I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not. Gavin Newsom

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do. John C. Maxwell

PSYCHOANALYSIS
In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be. Mason Cooley 

I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis. Diane Keaton 

I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem. John Malkovich



PSYCHOLOGY

Just because you're are paranoid does not mean they are not out to get you.

— Kurt Cobain, Song lyrics, Nevermind (1991), Territorial Pissings.

Zdroj: https://citaty.net/citaty/1131535-kurt-cobain-91-just-because-youre-paranoid-does-not-mean-t/

Kurt Cobain, Song lyrics, Nevermind (1991), Territorial Pissings.
Other versions of this quote:
... doesn't mean you're not being followed  / they are not after you.

— Kurt Cobain, Song lyrics, Nevermind (1991), Territorial Pissings.

Zdroj: https://citaty.net/citaty/1131535-kurt-cobain-91-just-because-youre-paranoid-does-not-mean-t

QUARREL

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves. William Hazlitt,

It's understandable and almost touching that we should expect our partners to understand us without us having explain what's up / going on. 

Why does there always have to be a loser / winner / because / end to everything? 

Does there always have to be a "because" (to everything)?

REBELLION

La rebeldia es la virtud original del hombre.

RECOGNITION
I'm very, very happy with my recognition / lack of recognition in England in terms of my life. The public's memory is very short, luckily. Rufus Sewell

Everything we do in our growing up has been done before. But it needs recognition and validation each time for each one of us - public, private, and secret. Robert Fulghum
REGRET

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, and so few that we feel like doing today.

Other versions:


So many things we wish we'd done in the past, so few we feel like doing today. 

What if everything was an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. Woody Allen. 

RELIGION

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. W. Churchill

REPUTATIONS

RETIREMENT

SCHOOL

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything / what he learned in school. Albert Einstein

SCHOOL DAYS

SELF-PORTRAIT (male)

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed. Vincent Van Gogh

SELF-PORTRAIT (female)

I am not a has-been. I am a will be. Lauren Bacall

I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it. Naomi Campbell

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. Marilyn Monroe

SEX

Sex without using someone is as difficult as eating without chewing. 

I think same sex couples should be able to get married. Barack Obama

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't! George Bernard Shaw

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered. Marilyn Monroe



SEX APPEAL. 



SKEPTICISM

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy. Denis Diderot

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. Napoleon Bonaparte



SOLITUDE



STARDOM

STARS

SUCCESS

Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it. Voltaire

SUFFERING

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. Bob Marley

That which does not kill us makes us stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche.

Other versions:

What doesn't kill you (only / just) makes you stronger. I really believe that.
I strongly believe that what doesn't kill / destroy you makes you stronger. 



TACT

Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip. Winston Churchill  

TALENT

TAXES


If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. Earl Wilson 

Other versions: 

If you ever feel like nobody thinks you exist, try stopping paying your taxes. 

TELEVISION

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx



TIME

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. Steve Jobs

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. Albert Einstein

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves. Jawaharlal Nehru

So many things to do (and yet) so little time!. David Deejay

Other versions:

So many books, so little time. Frank Zappa



VALIDATION

I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation. Denzel Washington

Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that's a need of the human condition - to look for affection or recognition or validation. Alejandro G. Inarritu VIOLENCE

WAR

WISDOM

It's the people who think they're clever who never are. The people who are clever never think of trying to be.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!  Homer

Old age and the passage of time teach all things. Sophocles

WISH

So many things we wish we had done yesterday, (and yet) so few we feel like doing today. 

WIVES

[ ] WORK

• Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. 

WRITER
As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

[ ] WRITING
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. Stephen King