Quotations/Lyrics/Maxims

This page contains a collection of some of my favorite quotes, lyrics, maxims, aphorisms, etc that are for one reason or another important to me.

In situations like these, it's sometimes useful to think of life as one, long, continuous evening, that never turns into night.

open la pini li kama

ale li pona

That the natural state of the human spirit is ecstatic wonder! That we should not settle for less!

Every card ever turned over remains in play.

You will always have been here once.

Maybe this is Heaven, and Heaven is scary.

The first thing you learn is that there's always a clock ticking somewhere.

Moriré de cara al sol.

O doblegarse, o luchar.

The safe way isn't the only way to go.

The traditions of all the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the brains of the living.

The bourgeosie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.

The past isn't dead. It's not even past.

Hic Rhodus, hic salta!

Spring does not come with the blossoming of a single flower; When one hundred flowers blossom, spring permeates the orchard.

It is possible that every morning God says "Do it again" to the Sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the Moon.