Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
CESARE PAVESEGive me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
CESARE PAVESEIf you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
CESARE PAVESEThere is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
CESARE PAVESEThe world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
CESARE PAVESEWill power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
CESARE PAVESENot believing in anything is also a religion .
CESARE PAVESEWe care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
CESARE PAVESEThe richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
CESARE PAVESEThe only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
CESARE PAVESEAll our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
CESARE PAVESEWhen writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
CESARE PAVESEThe only joy in the world is to begin.
CESARE PAVESEWe do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
CESARE PAVESEA corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
CESARE PAVESEA man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
CESARE PAVESEI am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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