Boris Pasternak

"Everyone experiences the present moment, but few truly live in it."

"Consciousness is a disease."

"I could show you fear in a handful of dust."

"The world has forgotten how to dream with open eyes."

"To love someone means to accept them as they are, without seeking to change them."

"History is not what happened, but what is recorded."

"There is no greater poetry than the poetry of weather and seasons."

"The measure of a life is the measure of one's love."

"Talent is a function of character, not the reverse."

"In art one must speak the language of the age."

"Patience is not the absence of action, but action with purpose."

"The past is written, the future is unwritten, we live only in now."

"Winter becomes spring through constant small renewals."

"To be alive is to feel the weight of joy and sorrow equally."

"Education should make us wise, not merely knowledgeable."

"The greatest truth is often hidden in silence."

"A person is, like space, mostly nothing."

"Real poetry comes from the deepest parts of our being."

"What makes love grow is sharing common purpose."

"Strength comes not from hardness but from flexibility."

"The pursuit of perfection often prevents the creation of anything good."

"Memory shapes us more than any current circumstance."

"To understand another person is the beginning of wisdom."

"Life does not repeat, yet history does, in patterns."

"The freedom to speak is worthless without something worth saying."

"Gardens teach us that growth requires both sun and rain."

"Music without emotion is mathematics; emotion without structure is chaos."

"To write is to live twice."

"Power over others is nothing compared to power over oneself."

"Kindness is the only currency that never devalues."