Paul Gauguin Quotes

Tomorrow! - Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday's sev'n thousand years.

It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.

To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.

The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.

The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought.

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

May the optimism of tomorrow be your foundation for today.

We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.

For tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun...

To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.

Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.

I think the person who has the experience, the depth and the values to take us forward is Theresa May who I think will be absolutely outstanding.

The politics of our society are a conversation in which past, present and future each has a voice; and though one or other of them may on occasion properly prevail none permanently dominates, and on this account we are free.

While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there's no reason to believe you'll succeed at it tomorrow.

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.

Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.

Somebody said you have to love what you do, but that's not necessarily true. What is true is that you have to love the opportunity. The opportunity to build life, future, health, success and fortune. Knocking on someone's door or making that extra call may not be something you love to do, but you love the opportunity of what might be behind that door or call.

What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.

Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.

Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.

[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]

Not that which is inspires the creation, but that which may be; not the actual, but the possible.

It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found: by being ever kept, it is ever lost. ’Tis too cold a companion: away with ’t!