life

Make mistakes, just don't make them permanent.

If you went back and fixed all the mistakes you've made, you'd erase yourself.

The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain.

There is a saying that wisdom comes with age, but sometimes, age comes alone.

Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.

Negde sam pročitao pitanje i odgovor iz intervjua Vitolda Gombroviča pred kraj njegovog života. – Kakvi su vam planovi u budućnosti? – Grob!

Pisan ima dramu u kojoj kaže oduzmi običnom čoveku životnu laž i oduzeo si mu životnu sreću.

Maxims of George Washington

• It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
• The most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it.
• Good company will always be found less expensive than bad.
• By acting reciprocally, heroes have made poets and poets heroes.
• When there is no reason for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent.
• It is easy to make acquaintances but very difficult to shake them off.
• Too much zeal creates suspicion.
• Ridicule begets enmity not easy to be forgotten but easily avoided.
• Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.
• Nothing is more useful for the formation of correct habits than the turning of our comments upon others, back upon ourselves.

He who is not satisfied with little, is satisfied with nothing.

The best advice I ever got was Jim Watson, who co-discovered DNA. Jim is brilliant, and as many brilliant people are a little bit crazy, and Jim has this admonishment which is double meaning, three words: ‘Avoid boring people.’ I love it, because what he’s saying is, ‘Stay away from people who are not interesting,’ avoid boring people, and, ‘Avoid boring people. Don’t be boring to people. Be interesting.’”