Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Famous Quotes
"As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness."
"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance."
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotations
"The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is Don't screw around, and don't smoke."
Edwina Currie
"It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens."
Baha u llah
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E B White
Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann von Goethe
"The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us."
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
Arab Proverb
"The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision."
Robyn Davidson
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
J PetitSenn
"Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are."
Robert J Ringer
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
John Maynard Keynes