G.s.gabriel Quotes

The most wonderful thing in life is to do something for a child because they're children for such a short time. We can't allow ourselves to let them live a miserable childhood.

Do not allow me to forget you

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.

Nobody knows anybody. Not that well.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.

The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write.

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

I don't believe in anything, only in myself, but I respect all people who believe in something.

Life is measured by how you lived it, not by the years.

With all the classes they offer at school, how come they don't have one for common sense?

Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

People have the strength to overcome their bodies. Their beauty is in their minds.

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

"Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls."

It is life, more than death, that has no limits.

Beauty without the beloved is a like a sword through the heart.

When you go to Hawaii, it's all about "Aloha." It means hello, goodbye and I love you.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

When I was 15, all I knew was that I had to be somebody and that I could be somebody. So I exploited the only thing I knew, which was singing and songwriting.

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep it under control.

You live by the cake, you die by the cake.

Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather sympathy we learn to feel for the pain of others.

Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

I had to travel half way across the world to be called an American.

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell.

Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

I hold the line, the line of strength that pulls me from the fear.

Surround yourself with brilliance.

You have been mine before - How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar, your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, - I knew it all of yore.

I not only have a body; I am this body.

With the proper diet, no doctor is necessary. With the improper diet, no doctor can help

Anything is possible as long as you're focused, determined and you really want to do it.

She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.

Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.

There is always something left to love.

Places that are empty of you are empty of life.

Some people can handle alcohol. You know who you are. Some people can't handle alcohol. The police know who you are.

It is beautiful, the world, and life itself. I am glad I have lived.

opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.

If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.