Mário Quintana Quotes IV – Life, happiness, pleasure

Published by Editor 3 de March de 2021

I never let my hopes be shattered by pessimistic words.

The longing of one’s beloved” is far better than her actual presence.

It is not enough to just live a lifetime, it must also be dreamed.

To live is to cherish dreams and hopes, making faith our greatest inspiration. It is to search in the little things for a great reason to be happy!

To know the mystery of the body is perhaps more important than knowing the mystery of the soul.

Life is not a game where only those who test their limits are the ones who take the prize. Let’s not be naive victims of such competitiveness. If the goal is too high, reduce it. If you do not agree with the rules, resign. Invent your own game.

Who says that I’ve changed? It doesn’t matter that they demolished it: we still go on living in the old house we were born in.

Coffee is so grave, so exclusive, so definitive that it will admit no solid accompaniment. But I get around it, savoring together with it, the smell of buttered toast that someone ordered at the next table.

You bring your philosophy with you at birth.

The reasons? These follow afterwards,

Just as you choose, in a hat store,

The shape that most suits you…

Do whatever it takes to be happy. But do not forget that happiness is a simple feeling and that you can find it and let it go for not realizing its simplicity.

Why hold life down in concepts and standards?

The Beautiful and the Ugly… Good and the Evil… Pain and Pleasure…

Everything, after all, is just forms, not rungs of Being!

The art of living is simply the art of living together…

simply, said I? But how difficult it is!

ONE DAY….

…we discover that … to kiss a person in order to forget another, is silly.

You not only do not forget the other as well as you think even more of her…

…we discover that…. falling in love is inevitable…

…we realize that the best proof of love is the simplest…

…we realize that the common does not attract us…

…we know that to be classified as a “nice guy” is not good…

…we realize that the person who doesn’t call you is the one who most thinks about you…

…we know the importance of the phrase: “You become forever responsible for what you have captivated…”

…we realize that we are very important to someone but do not assign value to this…

…we realize how much a friend is missed, but alas it is too late…

Anyway…

one day we discover that despite having lived for almost 100 years, it is not enough time to accomplish all of our dreams, to say everything that needs to be said…

The way is: or we conform to the missing things in our life or we strive to realize all of our craziness…

Who does not comprehend a look of the eyes will hardly understand a long explanation.

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