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bernandii.bsky.social
"Just a professional procrastinator trying to make it in a world that moves way too fast for my liking.”
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“When the debate is lost, slander becomes to tool of the loser.”

“A man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.”

“Excellence is never an accident.”

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? “

“Politics have no relation to morals.”

“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established; that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while; you could miss it.”

“Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it.”

“A silent frog catches the most flies.”

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”

“People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over.”

“A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere.”

“I have noticed that when people are joking, they are usually dead serious, and when they are serious, they are usually pretty funny.”

“The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone’s comfort.”

“I was horrified at life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank, the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.”

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least ones in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you’re special too.”

“Do not compare. Do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.”

“Race has been a constant arbiter of difference, as have wealth, class and gender - each of which is about power and the necessity to control.”

“The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do for a man? What else can you do for anyone but inspire them?

“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”

“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torment of a man.”

“Some people see things that are and ask, why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.”

“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at anytime.”

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”

“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”

“So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labours, my sufferance’s, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.”

“I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.”

“The finest souls are those who gulped pain and avoided making others taste it.”

“There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.”

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”

“To burn with desire and to keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I long to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. But I’m horribly limited.”

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy will lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

“One of the most tragic thing I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses the are blooming outside our windows today”

After certain things happen, you don’t feel the same way about people anymore, no matter who they are.