The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.
– Jos Saramago
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- The instant is gone, time has carried us into the realm of memory, it was like this, no, it was not, and everything becomes what we choose to invent. – Jos Saramago
- To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon. – Idries Shah
- Reading is probably another way of being in a place. – Jos Saramago
- how often fears come to sour our life and prove, in the end, to have no foundation, no reason to exist – Jos Saramago
- Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are. – Jos Saramago
- … that destiny has to make many turnings before arriving anywhere, destiny alone knows what it has cost … – Jos Saramago
- Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas. – Jos Saramago
- but the effort of setting the table, heating up the food and then washing the dishes seemed to him tonight a superhuman one. – Jos Saramago
- Dignity has no price, when someone starts making small concessions, in the end, life loses all meaning. – Jos Saramago
- The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do. – Jos Saramago
- what is right and what is wrong are simply different ways of understanding our relationships with the others, not that which we have with ourselves – Jos Saramago
- Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us. – Jos Saramago
- There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close. – Jos Saramago
- We’ve all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we’ll be sure to have some tomorrow. – Jos Saramago
- There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs – Jos Saramago
- …the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily. – Jos Saramago
- Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered. – Jos Saramago
- If I’m sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow? – Jos Saramago
- doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time, – Jos Saramago
- Everyone wants to save Man, but no one wants to know about men. – Jos Saramago
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- You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future. – Madeleine LEngle
- Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time – Paulo Coelho
- A hole is a space where everything has been moved out so that opportunity has space to move in. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- When you start to make things happen, you really begin to believe that you can make things happen. And that makes things happen. – David Allen
- Earthquakes just happen. Tornadoes just happen. Your tongue does not just happen to fall into some other girls mouth! – Gemma Halliday
- Family is not limited by blood or marriage. It’s limited to love and bond to one another in one’s heart – Joyce Guo
- A limited mind will have a limited world! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Mirrors have three purposes. To show you who you are. To show you who you were. And to show you who you want to be. – Dan Pearce
- The reason why nothing happens is because nothing was done. Something will happen when something is done. Leaders take actions! – Israelmore Ayivor
- I understand true life doesn’t happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others. – Mary E DeMuth
- God invented space so that not everything had to happen in Princeton. – Martin J Rees
- Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue – perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one. – Milan Kundera
- Power does not justify sin. Power is not virtue. Virtue is that which lasts inspite of power – Sweety Shinde
- Virtue of prayer, virtue of patience. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence. – Adam Smith
- virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue. – Plato