Boris Pasternak

"Inspiration strikes when we are ready to receive it."

"Relationships are where we learn to love ourselves."

"In solitude, we find our truest selves."

"Kindness costs nothing but enriches everything."

"Patience is the greatest act of strength."

"Hope is the final, most powerful weapon against despair."

"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."

"In any creative work, the artist must be willing to sacrifice everything for the truth of the moment."

"The most important thing is not to think yourself into a corner, but to live yourself into understanding."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent oneself from being driven into the street, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"Art has two constant, two unending concerns: it always meditates on death and thus always meditates on style."

"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth; there always remains something left over, aside, forgotten."

"To be modern is to be anxious about being modern, and this anxiety is the price of consciousness."

"When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than an ordinary, quiet moment."

"A man might spend his whole life building castles in the air, but the moment he stops dreaming, he ceases to be truly alive."

"The riddle of life cannot be solved by a few clever words spoken well."

"In every century there are a few events that suddenly illuminate the whole course of history and its meaning."

"To love another person is to see the face of God."

"The soul is constantly created by the body and the senses rather than the reverse."

"One thing must be loved to understand the rest of them."

"Talent is a marvelous thing, but it won't carry a quitter."

"The more honest one is, the more one is abandoned by one's friends."

"There is no such thing as a simple thing in the universe. Every atom contains multitudes."

"Life is not something that is completed; it is something that happens to you while you are busy making other plans."

"The writer is the Faustus of modern times. His heart is his fortune and his ruin."

"Beauty is mysterious and inexplicable in the same way as music is."

"Immortality will come to such an artist as reproduces in his work a likeness not his own, but of the world."

"I am a prisoner of time, its slave and its tool."

"In love, one must believe in the possibility of complete transformation and renewal."

"Courage is the acceptance of pain and suffering without whimpering."