Stefan Zweig
View AuthorOld age means nothing more than ceasing to suffer for the past.
Stefan Zweig
View AuthorSometimes it is nothing more than a very thin door that separates children from what we call the real world, and a little wind can open it.
Stefan Zweig
View AuthorThe surest measure of all strength is the resistance that overcomes.
Stefan Zweig
View AuthorThe first sign of genuine political vocation is, at all times, that a man renounces from the beginning to demand what is unattainable for him.
Stefan Zweig
View AuthorIt is not until we realize that we mean something to others that we feel there is an aim or purpose in our existence.
Stefan Zweig
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Stefan Zweig
View AuthorOnly those whom destiny has struck can truly be helped with love. Only they know how to love and be loved as it should be loved: with gratitude and humility.
Stefan Zweig
View AuthorThere are two kinds of compassion. One, the weak and sentimental [...] which is not exactly compassion, but rather an instinctive defense of the soul against the pain of others. And the other, the only one that matters, is devoid of sentimentality [...] willing to endure with patience and resignation until its last strength and even beyond.
Stefan Zweig
View AuthorEvery shadow is, after all, a daughter of light and only those who have known the clarity and the darkness, the war and the peace, the rise and the fall, only they have truly lived.
Joseph Addison
View AuthorReading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Mariano Aguiló
View AuthorForget what you have given to remember what you have received.
Alain
View AuthorNothing takes as long as that which is never started.