Each person thinks about his life. Sometimes you need to make the right choice, sometimes to recognize and correct mistakes, or even to summarize. Surely at such moments, quotes and aphorisms come to mind that accurately express a thought. The feast is not complete without them, they sound at weddings and funerals. They concern us all.
Meaning of life
Usually, as a young man grows up, he dreams of the future: who he will become, where he will live, what place he will take in society. Discusses this with friends, keeping cool sayings in his heart.
The Russian proverb says: a person who lives for himself smolders, who lives for a family - burns, and who tries to live for people - glows brightly. Plato is sure: living for the happiness of others, you can find your happiness.
Choosing a life path, it is important not to copy someone's life: parents, idols or friends. To make standard decisions in this matter is to lose oneself. Leonid Martynov calls for breaking stereotypes: long live road seekers, it’s hard to just cross the threshold.
Bulat Okudzhava complains: it is a pity that we are still glad to create an idol and bow to him, considering ourselves his slave.
Friedrich von Logau warns of constant work on oneself in achieving the goal: the most difficult thing is to defeat yourself. Laziness, cowardice, cowardice - enemies sitting inside. Maria von Ebner-Eschenbach adds: be a servant of conscience and a master of will.
Georg Hegel admonishes: the path to perfection is endless. Whoever believes that he has achieved it has killed his personality.
The union of two hearts
Lovers are very sensitive to everything: they are attracted to beautiful speech, funny sayings about the family, about love. Many couples have their own song expressing their feelings.
They all share the thoughts of Vincent Van Gogh, who considered it sinful and immoral to live without love.
It's okay if a man does not say beautiful words. Perhaps he agrees with William Shakespeare, who did not compose laudatory odes, considering praising his beloved before other receptions worthy of a merchant.
Finding love is not enough; it is more important to keep it. Guy de Maupassant, quoting "Song of Songs", compared the strength of love with death, and fragility with glass.
True love will endure. Although a person is gentle, like a flower, he is stronger than stone, ”the Tajik proverb says.
In the declining years
Cool sayings about life can be heard from the elderly. The sage Omar Khayyam gave the rule: it is better to starve alone than to eat what horrible is unknown to anyone.
The golden rule is given by Jesus Christ: in everything, treat people as you want them to do with you. Not to bow down under blows, to love life and hope for the best - this is the key to happiness, - said B. Disraeli, - and sooner or later what you expect will come.
A smile gives us an extension of the century; and anger makes a person old (Popular wisdom).
Old people know for sure: when you live in the past, you occupy the future (Vladimir Lebedev). Popular wisdom warns: while we scold our life, it passes.
Resentment and Forgiveness
Mahatma Gandhi once said that the principle of "an eye for an eye" will leave the whole world blind. Indeed, people constantly offend each other. Sometimes they do it by accident. No reason to be offended by misunderstandings or stupidity.
Francois de Larochefoucauld explains: petty insults comprehend a petty mind, a big mind is not offended.
Mikhail Zhvanetsky always formulates cool remarks and consoles: let people laugh at you better than cry. In fact, while alive - everything does not matter. Miguel de Cervantes compares the word with a weapon, speaking of thoughtless speech as random shooting. William Shakespeare agrees with him: a sharp word leaving marks on clothes would make everyone go dirty.
And Voltaire sums up: weakness on both sides - this is a feature of all quarrels.
Feast
When real friends gather at the table, they cannot talk. Every now and then jokes, jokes, funny sayings about everything in the world sound. This is understandable, communicate from heart to heart, without any tension. Shota Rustaveli claims: he who does not seek friends is his own enemy.
Among friends, they discuss work, children, spouses, relatives, hobbies. And after all, on every topic there is a winged expression. And if something did not work out, someone will simply say: ce la vie. And they will immediately understand him.
And everyone will agree with Indian wisdom: the highest pleasure and a decent lifestyle is to be in joy, to love friends and to be loved yourself (Panchatantra).
Sometimes we don’t notice that we use cool sayings with meaning in our speech. And only by the reaction of the interlocutor we understand - he said well! They become part of our personality, they are exchanged during a conversation. It’s difficult to search for such pearls, but they find us themselves.
Usually people of the same circle cite similar aphorisms taken from books, films and folklore. All the more pleasant is the interlocutor’s speech, they give her colors. Whether our speech is decorated with wise sayings, sprinkled with ridiculous sayings or quotes from books is up to everyone to decide for themselves. But one thing can be said: this is what will be the real Russian language.