Archive for category Quotes

CAST OFF FOR HAPPINESS

Posted by Ozer Senturk on Friday, 9 April, 2010

These tall and handsome ships, swaying imperceptibly on tranquil waters, these sturdy ships, with their inactive, nostalgic appearance, don’t they say to us in a speechless tongue: When do we cast off for happiness?
–Charles Baudelaire

LIFE

Posted by Ozer Senturk on Wednesday, 24 March, 2010

Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if life tortures you at times. There is only one thing that counts: to live one’s life well and happily…
–Wilhelm Reich

IMMATERIAL

Posted by Ozer Senturk on Tuesday, 9 March, 2010

The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
–Victor Hugo

MANY OF LIFE’S FAILURES

Posted by Ozer Senturk on Tuesday, 9 March, 2010

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
–Thomas Edison

HOW LONG?

Posted by Ozer Senturk on Tuesday, 9 March, 2010

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life. This is our modern danger — one of the waxen wings of flight. It may cause our civilization to fall unless we act quickly to counteract it, unless we realize that human character is more important than efficiency, that education consists of more than the mere accumulation of knowledge.
–Charles Lindbergh