“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” 
 ―Dalai Lama XIV

“You never fail until you stop trying.” 
 ―Albert Einstein

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.” 
 ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I’d tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts ‘to be like the rest’ –and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I’d give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again – in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment 

(Wilkie COLLINS, The Woman in White)

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
― Oscar WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray

кървава и многоръка,

и по цигулката старческа тя

тегли полекичка лъка."
- Христо Смирненски, Старият музикант