Peter Altenberg famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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For a man the whole world is his love. For a woman love is her whole world.
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Art is life, life is life, but to lead life artistically is the art of life.
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I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed only of being a little pocket mirror, the sort that a woman can carry in her purse; one that reflects small blemishes, and some great beauties, when held close enough to the heart.
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It is sad to be an exception. But not to be one is even sadder.
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There are only two things that can destroy a healthy [hu]man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more.
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God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us.
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God thinks in the geniusses, he dreams in the poets and slumbers in the rest of humanity.
-- Peter Altenberg
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.
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The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
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It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
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Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
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Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
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The Cross is not responsible for God's love; rather it was His love that conceived the Cross.
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God is unchanging in His love. He loves you. He has a plan for your life. Don't let the newspaper headlines frighten you. God is still sovereign; He's still on the throne.
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The seasons change and you change, but the Lord abides evermore the same, and the streams of His love are as deep, as broad and as full as ever.
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The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love.
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