Книга I Случайные мысли на английском языке

CHANCE THOUGHTS         



A chance thought does not aspire to be true, just as the truth does not claim to be permanent.






Do not stand in the way of a dreamer. His dream may end up being much more powerful than its owner.






It really isn’t frightening to start something new. No one will notice your mistakes.







Behind every excuse follows regret.









If your dream comes true, it becomes your friend. If not, it becomes your enemy.






A truly lovely girlfriend doesn’t always say lovely words.






Forgiveness is asked for more often than it’s given.







In all societies, there are people who need food but not sympathy, and those who need sympathy but not food.







My purpose in writing is most definitely not to make you think. For your purpose in thinking is not to make me write.






People take the most offence at what they believe in least.






No one falls out of love unchanged. But everyone goes back to their old mistakes.






Fear and joy sleep in the same bed.






When you roam around someone else’s dreams, you never know where you will awake.







Desire attracts. Enthusiasm repulses.









Sometimes, things don’t happen as we would like them to. But we could also see that as luck.







A loving thought’s aim is the heart.







Our mistakes are always a disappointment. But our disappointments are not always a mistake.






Style is a personal reality.








The more you understand, the less others understand you.






If a woman doesn’t joke back, it means she doesn't want it.






Goodness, how long I have been mistaken! It turns out that I’m good.







A person who deceives himself is most afraid of being deceived by someone else.







It is harder than anything to deceive a sincere person -  he knows what openheartedness is.







However healthy your lifestyle is, the worst possibility remains – that people might not like you.





Nothing good will happen until you believe in it.







Alcohol allows you to love what you fear, and makes you fear what you most love.







Sometimes we know whom to phone, but don't know where there are; sometimes we love someone, but don't know whom.








To go beyond limits, you must first come to them.







There's only one way to change your life. Make it better.







No science of survival will replace the love of life.






Whatever sort of falsity we could make out of the meaning of life, life itself will be always wonderful.







When people fear loss much more than they wish to find something, there begins great mundanity.






The power of every government depends on its attitude towards its own culture.






My words cost a lot, but for those who understand me, they are free.







If you are sad because you know a lot, then nothing that you know is good.







The purpose of kind words is to alleviate pain. The target of cruel words is to aggravate joy.






When you laugh at unhappy people, happy people laugh at you.







Ultimately, whatever you have achieved, it will only be the beginning.







If someone immediately agrees to something, it might mean that he will give up just as quickly.






Forgive before saying farewell.






It's not worth going mad. If you do, you will never know about it.






When you’re not in love, you're in balance; but when you are, you’re weightless.





The thread of love intertwines the desire to possess and fear of losing at the same time.






Beauty without pain doesn’t exist.






A girl who smiles from a photograph isn’t smiling at you, but at the photographer.






To become great, you must first be brave enough to believe that you can be.






The rules of seduction are thought up by those who are seduced.






Choice is not either this or that. Choice is whether you want to or not.






The one who cries and the one who laughs will never part company.




A great master always seeks what everyone has, and finds it in every single person.






If life starts changing your plans, then it’s time to change your life.






You will only fully realize your strength after you have defeated something stronger than you.






Confidence in your talent is worth as much as the talent itself.






If you strive for joy, meaning will follow. If you strive for meaning, joy will go in a different direction.




Success comes when your own confidence becomes your credibility.






In any love story, there is more fiction than reality.






Patience is the longest word in the dictionary.






For some people, feeling unhappy is much more important that being happy.





The best evidence for the existence of independent thoughts is ability to express them.






A woman who gives evasive answers is much more attractive that one who asks direct questions.




Love produces fruit. Passion produces ashes.






You will only find out where your dream will take you after you have done all you can for it.






Discoveries are only made by open-minded people.







Let your fantasies melt into reality, but do not let reality melt into your fantasies.








Looking at a worm, every fish thinks: here is my last chance.




If you are not understood, it means that there’s something you don't understand.






In love, no one owes anyone anything.






The one who considers kindness as weakness will also consider weakness as kindness.






Innocence is not lack of experience. It is lack of ignorance.







A good teacher teaches how to gain advantage. A great teacher teaches how to give joy.




Regret about the past will not make you happy in the future.








Style is instinct; imagination; taste.







Sometimes, to get what you most want, you must give away what you most need.






When love is gone, pain remains. When pain is gone, emptiness remains. But how can emptiness be filled with any things worse?





All change for the better, which you have been awaiting such a long time, has long since been dwelling somewhere in the depth of your thoughts.




Books, like women, do not appear out of nowhere.





Some people go where they are expected, others go wherever they want to.





Fear of loneliness is visible in the eyes of every person.




Some people look for the same thing in different places. Others look for something different in the same place.





There are so many books which teach us how to be successful in life. But sadly, they do not know where to get the strength for it.




A woman can be anything. She can have many different sides. But she cannot be simply good or bad.




In order to see all the people circling around you, all you need to do is stop for a moment. But to make all people circle around you, merely to stop is not enough.
 



Nothing is as entrancing in a woman as her inner sexual confidence.





A beautiful person seems clever. A clever person seems beautiful.





We have less than we want because we are given more than we can cope with.





Before satisfying your desire, take a little advice from your object’s air.





If you can't enjoy your own company, then what satisfaction will others find in it?






Don’t trouble yourself with someone else's stupidity.




Good people help each other. Bad people use each other.





Life and art continually change according to unchanging laws.






It seems perfectly logical that those who don't believe in miracles lack imagination and a sense of humour.






The road is not to blame when you lose your way.






Love is when a man and woman don't understand each other.





The less you hide, the more you find.




When I look into the eyes of someone I love, I feel there's something more important in life than reason.





Sometimes it's much more difficult to ask a question than to answer it.






More achievement doesn't in the slightest mean better achievement.






Passion is the riskiest game because it doesn't have any rules.







Punishment for one’s thoughts comes first. The act itself is merely penance.






Fate doesn't laugh at those who smile.





Preconception and presentiment are two blades of one razor.






One can only be perfect in his own genre.






The stronger one’s desires are, the more interesting he is.







In their original form, all prayers resound in one language.





Fate steps in to help only after one has used the last of his strength.




Of course, I would love to like the dream which is going to come true.





As soon as one understands what he fears, he will immediately stop fearing what he doesn't understand.





The first mistake in love begins from the second try.





Women who love drunken passion but prefer a sober mind are left with unintelligible frugality.







A predator is always in the claws of its prey.





Our weaknesses are often hidden precisely in our strength.




If you have a choice, then you are wrong.





Our own hands are the instruments of fate, and yet we heap everything onto fate itself.






The art of living is first of all the art of enjoying life.





Youth is when you can do everything, but know nothing. Age is when you know everything, but can do nothing.






We must go not towards God, but with God.






A real man is always favoured by fate, but a real woman is fate herself.





Everyone lives in their own way. Some collect life, others manage it.






Only magicians make us truly happy; everyone else is merely a feeble conjurer.






The joy of life is – well, the truth to which one must aspire.







Sex is worthy of respect, because, at the very least, it was where we all came from.






If you don't understand the answer to your question, then you didn’t ask it in the right way.



Great love is for people with aspiration. It has no place for the vain.






There's no such thing as unlucky love, there are just unlucky people.






Order in life doesn't mean that life is in order.






I would like the things that I consider as best to be so in reality.






A wise person will not tell your life story to anyone else. He will not even tell it to you.






Sometimes even the smallest card can win the biggest prize.




A wise tree does everything in time, as it’s not in any hurry.




Even the creation of artificial intelligence does not enable man to rid himself of his own stupidity.



Only someone who knows how to enjoy himself can give someone else joy.




Some things can only be seen with closed eyes.





A dream is not what you will one day reach, but what you always have with you.




Talent thinks only as he wants to think.




God doesn't change people's point of view, He changes people.




A clear conscience is dirty work.





False feelings are the most difficult ones to hide.






We all dream of honesty, but prefer dancing with strangers.





Good girls often do what bad girls only dream of.





All social phenomena can be found in the soul of every person.






The doors to success and the doors to failure both have the same key. The catch is – they’re different doors.






It’s better not to think about what will hinder us, but about what will help us.






Very often, the point of expectation is in realizing that nothing is worth expecting.






Even the most thrilling drugs lead to the point at which you are only thrilling to yourself.





What we want to hear is always more interesting than what we actually hear.






If you want to see the truth, conciliate good and evil.






When the ground crumbles from beneath your feet, and there is nothing to rely on, all that is left is to hold on to the stars.






One who treats a relationship like a discussion is doomed from the very beginning to the very end.





For the sake of those who die at crossroads, only one ascended to a cross.





Since I got lost, who hasn’t found me?





If lack of a woman leads to sorrow, then lack of sorrow leads to a woman.






The only thing in this life that is really compelling is endless change for the better.





In most cases, a woman leaves a man not because he is bad, but because she is better.




Someone who only wants to be no worse than other people doesn't become better.





You can only make others happy if you are happy yourself.





Only the best people refuse good in favour of the best.





One hides, another isn't searching.




If you don’t assign value to what you don't have, then you will not have anything valueless.




We must be ready for luck.





We desire people with desires, and daydream about people with daydreams.




Happiness can't exist without a sense of humour.





And, secondly, I like women for their ability to tell both lies and the truth at the same time.







There are some people who are given and taken. And there are people who give and take.




The ideal woman is beautiful, wicked and devoted.





I haven’t always received, but I've never been had.





First, one tries to excuse what he hasn't done. Then he tries to amend what has happened.






If you can see your shadow, then you’ve turned your back on the sun.





Some love stories finish before the acquaintance is made.





Mostly we don’t miss the things that happened, but the feelings we had.





A good past is born in a good future.





The one who doesn't strive for anything will eventually have to pursue something.





If all world religions talk about love for life, then why don’t we make love our religion?





If your smile doesn't tell of your happiness, then it tells of your strength.




What you are ready for will always be somewhere in the faraway past.





There are situations when you know what to do, but it's better to ask. But sometimes, you don't know - and it's better not to ask.





When you love, you want to believe. When you believe, you want to love.





If things aren’t going as you’d like them to, then you’re not doing what you should.






Getting rid of past experiences is much harder that finding new ones.





Every cigarette has the potential to be the last.





The secret of an illusionist is in making you miss something. The secret of a magician is in making you see something.




Humanity can live only for its culture. All other goals will inevitably lead to disaster.





It is better not to switch on what can’t be switched off.




Passion is the only law of success.




Intuition is when you know what the answer is to a question that you haven't yet asked.




Bad people do not bring good news.





People put on an honest face in vain. Lies can usually be detected aurally.




Life is as far from perfection as you are from life.





We learn useful  lessons not when something bad happens, but when something good comes. 




A sense of humour is a good sign of virtue and a resilient cover for shortcomings.




The truth is not what women and men say to each other. The truth is what they will never say.




Don't allow pleasure to try your patience. Take control of pleasure yourself.





A person’s path will be as straight as he can think with flexibility.




If you are happy, it doesn't matter in the slightest whether it’s real.




The power which we use to bridle our ambitions is strong enough to overcome our weaknesses.




Our problems often take the place in which our desires had once been.




If you don't say what you wanted to, then don't get offended when the reply isn’t what you wanted to hear.




If you have no faith, then what are dreams for?





People will gladly forgive your shadowy past, but they will never forgive your bright future.



What is expressed in tears is hidden in a smile.




If fate doesn't give us what we want, then it gives us what we need.




Do not look for what you have lost; do not lose what you are looking for.




When your dreams come true, the adventure is just beginning.




You won’t come to the right conclusions from wrong arguments.




The future is not seen by those who look into it, but by those who are living in it.





A dream is the destiny of the strong.




What you are unable to achieve will be achieved by your smile.




It is hard to please someone who only wants to please himself.




The more you enjoy things, the faster you come up with something.




Some appreciate what they will never achieve. Others strive for what they will never appreciate.





If life had reason, it wouldn't have us.





May our desires remain strong, even if strength no longer remains.





Sometimes it's harder to want than to achieve.





Today, I wanted to buy a gun, but only had enough money for a bottle of champagne.






Someone looking out of a window can see more than someone looking into it.




The worst crime is being a victim.





Great disappointment is better than long-lasting regret.





If you don't know what you want, then luck becomes a mistake.





Fantasies are thoughts without fear.




Unintelligibility doesn’t count as a hint.




True freedom is being free of your own prejudice.




The one who knows the rules of the game doesn’t always know which game he’s playing.





Most of the time, people tell lies silently.





The person who tears apart our present and doesn't accept our future will sooner or later end up in our past.





If love doesn’t see us, it doesn't mean that she’s blind.





If people like you because they understand you, it's kindness. But if they like you because they don’t, it’s love.







If you think that you’ve fallen in love, I don't believe you. When you fall in love, you don't even think any more.





Finding pleasure in life is the greatest art.






To ensure that you dream comes true, it is absolutely necessary to dream.





Only two obstacles exist on the road to success: when a person doesn't believe in himself, and when he doesn't believe in others.






If someone deceives you, but you’re not taken in, then that’s just entertainment.






After every unexpected loss follows a long-appointed finding.





Sometimes, to fulfil a dream, you must reach for the sky. But to fulfil others, you must come down to earth.




The most beautiful girl always lives where your heart longs for.






If you bought love and it turned out to be fake, then your money was forged.





The higher your dream, the deeper your secret.






Imagination is a cunning joke. If it doesn’t overcome obstacles, then it creates them.





What you secretly dream about is secretly dreaming of coming true for you.




Most of the time people are jealous not of what you have, but of what you feel.






People with separate dreams are happy to leave each other. But those who share a dream must stay together.





As soon as we rid ourselves of the things we don’t want, the things we dream of immediately show up.





A fatal woman is not one that you love, but the one you can’t forget.






Those who lack a sense of humour overflow with feelings of offence.





You are loved not by the one who dreams about you, but by the one who knows that he is in your dreams.





A strong person doesn’t lose, he merely defers.






No pain leaves without footprints. And its footprints inevitably lead to our loved ones.






A clown that is feared becomes a tyrant; a tyrant that is laughed at becomes a clown.





The one who loves life isn't afraid of himself.






Anger is pain that hasn't yet been suffered.




A minute of happiness costs as many years of expectation as you are ready to pay for it.




If problems do not change people, then people will not change their problems.






Sometimes, the most important thing is not what you will become, but what you will remain.




Vision is not a merely a dream that decorates our lives. It is a life that fills your dreams with peace.





Before being able to speak beautifully, you must think beautifully.







Only the rules that we follow really exist. All the rest are exceptions.





If you don’t know how to day-dream, someone else will exploit your imagination.





Unhappy love is requital for indifference.




If you don't love to care, then you don't love at all.




An elegant phrase packs a stronger punch.




Some people understand us better than we understand them.




Sometimes, one tries to understand how something could have happened, and completely forgets to understand what actually happened.




The power of our imagination sometimes brings us more trouble than actual problems.




Talent is not given without purpose.





If love is not like a comedy, that means it's a comedy which is like love.




One day, you’ll find that there's nothing to lose.




If you feel more than you understand, then you’re either frightened or in love.




Fear can make a person false, even if he says what he thinks.




Love is fair, in that it is unfair to everyone at least once.




In this world, you fill exactly the same amount of space as your imagination.




A woman who doesn't see herself in your plans will never confide in you with hers.



We have less than we are given because we want more than we can get.




You must know your future better than your past.




People who tell their friends about their pets most likely tell their pets about their friends.





If love has forgiven, that means it’s gone.




Mostly, a person falls from a place he hasn’t yet got to.




Fear of tomorrow takes away our strength of today.





If what you dream about with closed eyes doesn't disappear when you open your eyes, that means your dream has come true.




Humanity’s problem is not in his constant desire, but in his constant desire for something different.




Love loves it when we laugh. But it doesn't love it when we laugh at her.




In order to find pleasure in your foolishness, you must learn to think very soberly.




Some people hide from the past in their future. Others hide from the future in their past.



To talk about what will be done is much easier than to do what will be talked about.



Your beauty and strength shouldn’t depend on what people say. Let what they say depend on your beauty and strength.



Sometimes people prevaricate when they give answers. But no one ever prevaricates when they ask questions.




If you stop rejoicing, your problems will never go away.




Those who love to be afraid are afraid of loving.




Living in a false relationship is much easier than facing up to the truth on one’s own.




Wisdom is not when you know a lot, but when you don't know anything unnecessary.



It’s not worth worrying that others have what you don’t. If you have what nobody else does, you’re a lucky one.



A beautiful thought sounds beautiful in any language.



Logic only answers questions that are left far in the past.



Most of the time, the reason for misfortune is precisely because we look for the reason.



Life is what you rejoice in when you have nothing.




If tomorrow will be just like yesterday, it means that once again, nothing has happened today.




If you know where a thought has come from, then you know how it will go.




If you are liked by many, that doesn’t mean that you are liked by the best.



The stepping stones towards a goal can only be given by the goal itself.



Our merits are not always to our benefit.



Necessary things happen only at the right time, in the right place and to those who really need them.



When dreams do not come true, they turn into nightmares.



The most unbelievable thing can become something you believe in more than anything.




A clever person knows how to choose the best. A wise person knows how not to choose.







It’s not worth being afraid that something bad will happen. It’s only worth being afraid that something good won’t.



First and foremost, do not believe those who don't believe in themselves.





Only those who can inspire and those who can be inspired live beautifully.




No one reaches success by constantly putting off defeat.





The thought in your head when you fall asleep isn’t important. It’s important which thought you wake up for.