40 interesting phrases that will make you reflect
There are many reflections that we hear throughout the day, and innumerable that the millions of people who have existed throughout history have spoken. All of them have had or have their importance, as an expression of a thought or feeling or attempt to communicate what they are. And many of them are the product of deep thoughts, remaining in history for some reason.
In this article we are going to see justly a series of interesting phrases that are pronounced or written throughout history .
Interesting phrases that invite you to think
Below you will find a selection of several interesting phrases that many personalities have made throughout history, along with others from tradition and popular wisdom.
1. Fall seven times, get up eight
Motivating phrase coming from a Japanese proverb that pushes us to not let ourselves be defeated and to not give up.
2. Fantasy never draws madness; what drives madness is precisely the reason. Poets do not go crazy, but chess players do
The writer Gilbert Keith Chesterton tells us that it is the fact that wanting to control and rationalize everything is harmful and dangerous, the expression of our fantasy and desires being healthy.
3. Words are full of falsehood or art; the look is the language of the heart
William Shakespeare tells us how easy it is to manipulate language to fit our intentions, but that our gaze will tend to be sincere and to express what we really feel.
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4. The words wax, steel works
Phrase of Góngora that reflects that what really counts are the acts, not the words.
5. There is no tree that the wind has not shaken
Curious Hindu proverb that reminds us that we have all suffered, suffer and will suffer throughout our lives when facing reality.
6. Unexpressed emotions never die. They are buried alive and come out later in worse ways
This phrase of Sigmund Freud reflects that what we keep silent is still valid within us since we can not get it out. And this can lead to a worsening of the situation and internal malaise.
7. Today is the day of tomorrow that worried you so much yesterday
This phrase of Dale Carnegie tells us that little by little we are overcoming situations and that everything is coming, not being concern for tomorrow something that should distress us and limit us.
8. The greatest empire is the empire of oneself
Seneca tells us with this phrase that it is the fact of knowing ourselves and knowing how to manage ourselves and our lives is what allows us to be happy.
9. A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step
This sentence attributed to Lao Tsé tells us that to get far we must start walking .
10. The greatest declaration of love is that which is not made, the man who feels a lot speaks little
Although it may be debatable, this phrase of Plato reflects that we rarely say everything we feel and everything that we care about the people we love.
11. Challenges make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful
Facing challenges and valuing them as something positive is fundamental for us to enrich our lives by daring to act to achieve what we want, as the writer, poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson reminds us.
12. If the whole year were partying, having fun would be more boring than working
Most of us like to enjoy our leisure time. This phrase of William Shakespeare that does not indicate the boredom that ends up by supposing the monotony for the majority of people.
13. The hardest thing is to know ourselves; the easiest is to speak ill of others
Reflection of the philosopher Tales of Miletus, who already in antiquity saw that human beings find it easy to criticize the rest of the world without seeing their own characteristics, seeing the straw only in the eye of others.
14. Feeling pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional
Well-known phrase sometimes attributed to Buddha and others to M. Kathleen Casey. This phrase points out that although the things that happen to us can be painful, our attitude plays a major role in determining how we are going to react to them and how they will affect us.
15. It is crazy to hate all roses because one pricked you. Give up all your dreams because one of them was not realized
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is the author of this phrase, and in fact appears in The little Prince, and reminds us that we can not generalize a single situation or specific element to the rest of situations or elements that may occur.
16. Who with monsters fight take care of becoming a monster. When you look for a long time at an abyss, the abyss also looks inside you
Phrase of Nietzche in which he says that we must bear in mind that in the fight for what we consider fair or right, there does not come a point where we will do precisely what we wanted to fight.
17. Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future
Oscar Wilde phrase, which tells us that not all good are so good or all the bad are so bad. We can all change.
18. If you are looking for different results, do not always do the same
Einstein phrase that indicates the need to risk experimenting new options if we want to achieve things different from the usual ones.
19. We must not lose faith in humanity, since it is like the ocean: it does not get dirty because some of its drops are corrupted
We often tend to lose faith and believe that everyone is selfish and will pretend to achieve their goals by stepping on others and hurting us. But the truth is, as this phrase of Gandhi reflects, that the fact that it happened to us on some occasion does not imply that everyone is the same.
20. Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would disintegrate, I would still plant my apple tree
Martin Luther King offered us this phrase as a symbol of the need to maintain hope and bet on the future, no matter how bad we see it.
21. There is always some madness in love, but there is always a little reason in madness
Phrase of Nietzche in which he expresses the sensations and actions that appear or are carried out for love.
22. A today is worth two mornings
This phrase of Benjamin Franklin tells us that the present is much more valuable than the future, since it is only the now that we are living, without being able to know what may be to come.
23. I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave is not the one who does not feel fear but the one who conquers that fear
Phrase Nelson Mandela in which we are told that courage is not to be afraid but to dare to face it.
24. Holding a grudge is like holding a hot coal with the intention of throwing it at someone else; it is one that burns
Phrase attributed to Buddha that tells us that hate, hold a grudge against someone and want revenge in the end only harms us.
25. Who transforms himself, transforms the world
The Dalai Lama indicates that it is the change of the person himself that will generate a change in the world or in our way of perceiving it.
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26. Life is a magnificent spectacle, but we have bad seats and we do not understand what we are witnessing
This phrase of Georges Clemenceau makes reference to that often we are not able to understand the beauty of life or to appreciate the things that are really worthwhile.
27. Do not laugh at anything is fools, laugh at everything is stupid
Groucho Marx phrase that reminds us of the need to find a balance between seriousness and humor. Hemo to take our lives with some humor, but without trying to do everything comedy.
28. Whoever wants this life all things to his liking, will have many troubles
One of Quevedo's most interesting phrases that expresses the need to accept that not everything will go as we would like.
29. Neither a sublime intelligence, nor a great imagination, nor the two things together form genius; love, that's the soul of genius
Amadeus Mozart pronounced this phrase to indicate that what makes us stand out is not the ability , but love what we do.
30. The least frequent in this world is to live. Most people exist, that's all
This phrase of Oscar Wilde makes us see that most people are limited to survive, without striving to achieve their dreams and denying or fearing to struggle to get them. It also tries to impel us to try to live as we are and believe.
31. Experience is not what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you
Huxley reminds us that what matters and what defines us is what we do with our life and what happens, not the things that happen in it.
32. The important thing is not to do new things, but to do them as if no one had ever done them before.
Possibly most of the things we have thought and done have been done and thought of before. What matters is not being the first, but doing them with the maximum enthusiasm and for ourselves.
33. Ask yourself if what you are doing today will take you where you want to go tomorrow
Walt Disney also made great reflections like the present. It pushes us to fight to achieve our dreams and act towards them.
34. Kisses are like cherries: one leads to another
This phrase is an Italian proverb that reflects the reciprocity and the desire of more before the fact of kissing someone who attracts us and / or who we love.
35. All the variety, all the charm and all the beauty that exists in this world is made of lights and shadows
Tolstoy reminds us that everything has its good and bad side , its lights and shadows, and that we should be able to appreciate it.
36. The only person you should compare to is the person you were yesterday. That is the person you have to overcome and in which you must look to be better
Attributed to Freud, this phrase criticizes the fact that we tend to continually compare ourselves and want to overcome others, when the only being we should aspire to overcome is our past self.
37If it is good to live, it is even better to dream, and best of all, to wake up
Beautiful phrase of Antonio Machado, reminds us that having dreams and fantasies and not just dream but fight to achieve them is what allows us to get to live our lives in a happy way.
38. We can complain that the roses have thorns, or happy that the thorns have roses
Attributed to Abraham Lincoln, this phrase reminds us that everything depends on the perspective from which we see things.
39. Nothing happens until something moves
Albert Einstein tells us the need to act: things do not just happen.
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40. The measure of love is to love without measure
Work of St. Augustine, this phrase lets us see that love is something that is not measured or calculated, it is simply felt in all its intensity.
