Miguel Quotes

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.

Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.

When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.

Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.

When we are asleep, we are all equal.

Other men's pains are easily borne.

Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.

Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.

Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.

Great people create great acts of kindness.

"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.

The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.

Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.

The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.

The little birds have God for their caterer.

She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.

Necessity urges desperate measures.

My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.

There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.

Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.

When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.

One swallow alone does not make a summer.

I shall be as secret as the grave.

There is nothing costs less than civility.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.

May God deny you peace but give you glory!

The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.

All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.

I have teenage boys and I think teenage boys require a father to have eyeballs on them at all times.

You could have all the computer chips ever in the world and you won’t create a consciousness.

Bad things happen, it's your job to overcome them.

Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.

You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

the real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself

when the need is in the mind, you cannot satisfy the need

If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?

Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.

I am awake, I see the sun. I am going to give my gratitude to the sun and to everything and everyone because I am still alive. One more day to be myself.

If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves.

Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.

Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.

When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure.

Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it