Fernando Pessoa Quotes
Best 8 Quotes by Fernando Pessoa
“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.”
“Stones in the way? I keep them all. One day I will build a castle.”
The Book of Disquiet Quotes
“I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.”
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
“My past is everything I failed to be.”
“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
“We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept — our own selves — that we love.”
“We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.”
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“I’m not who that guy says I am. I’m not who that girl says I am. I’m not who social media likes and comments say I am. I’m not who the grades, to-do lists, messes, and mess ups say I am. I’m not who the scale says I am or the sum total of what my flaws say I am. I’m going to stop flirting with the unstable things of this world so I can fall completely in love with You. I am loved. I am held. I am Yours. I am forever Yours.” The more intimacy like this that I have with God, the more secure my true identity is.”
