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Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion...

Quote by Charles W. Eliot about opinion, evolution, happiness, contentment, thinking

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

Quote by John Millington Synge about language, word, music, contentment

My poem is you.

Quote by Razvan Tupa about aphorisms, contentment

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Quote by Charlie Chaplin about life, people, contentment

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Quote by Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord about life, contentment

Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere.

Quote by Yasunari Kawabata about god, contentment

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Quote by Audrey Hepburn about attitude, eyes, knowledge, word, good, good luck, contentment

I am happy and content because I think I am.

Quote by Alain Rene Lesage about happiness

The less you know, the more you believe.

Quote by Paul David Hewson about faith, contentment

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

Quote by Stevie Wonder about opinion, life, people, contentment

You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.

Quote by Giuseppe Garibaldi about revolution, children, beauty, contentment

Star Star, my only star, in the poverty of the night, alone, for me, alone, you shine, in loneliness you shine; But, for me, star that never will stop from lighting, a too short time is granted you, you lavish me a light that...

Quote by Giuseppe Ungaretti about poetry, celebrity, solitude, despair, poverty, contentment, night, light, nothing, time

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Quote by Irwin Allen Ginsberg about poetry, lie, thinking, night, public, poets, world, time, contentment

All you've known of communism hurts here. And we make fun of it.

Quote by Razvan Tupa about communism, contentment

Seek not good from without, seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Quote by Bertha von Suttner about good, good luck, contentment

What would we humans be without a soul? Bound in a material life, deprived of dream journeys, of the beauty of hope, deprived of love and enthusiasm, we would become vague, rigid and cold objects, walking shadows trying to communicate by words...

Quote by Silvia Cinca about soul, contentment, beauty, word, people, objects, enthusiasm, dream, hope, life

When you are eliminating the vanity, you can exist in literature, because you find other arguments for the fact that you are existing, less vanitous and the things are then back to normal, in a more acceptable order.

Quote by Dinu Flamand about writing, proudness, vanity, literature, contentment, order, things

And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday

Quote by Alfred Doblin about rightness, justice, being, world, contentment, time

Speaking about poetry you never know if you will write after a week or never.

Quote by Alexandru Musina about poetry, contentment

The small gifts Small gifts of air and tired light, Of a more distant God. Vague signs On the back of his graphs. When everything you have love is sinking slowly In air, light, in the mud of brain... And remain... What remain? Small...

Quote by Alexandru Musina about gifts, air, light, astrology, word, brain, god, contentment, things, dream