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Selma Lagerlöf

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Biography - Selma Lagerlöf:

Swedish author and teacher. Nobel Prize in Literature (1909).
Born: 1858 - Died: 1940
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Sweden
Sweden

If you want to live in peace with yourself, you have to accept yourself as you are.


If you want to live in peace with yourself, you have to accept yourself as you are.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Pour vivre en paix avec soi-même, il faut s'accepter tel qu'on est.

German
Wer mit sich selbst in Frieden leben will, muss sich so akzeptieren, wie er ist.




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He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.




Quotes for: to live


Quotes

Quotes for: to live


True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.





To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.





My trade and art is to live.





You can't live at all, unless you can live fully now.











Quotes for: oneself


Quotes

Quotes about oneself:


It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.





Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.





Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.











Quotes for: peace


Quotes

Quotes about peace:


Perhaps peace is more than happiness.





There was never a good war, or a bad peace.





If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.





Better than a thousand hollow words
Is one word that brings peace.






If you want to make peace there must be two people, you yourself and the neighbor opposite.





Thoughts at peace. That is the goal someone who philosophizes longs for.











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Selma Lagerlöf also said...


Culture is what remains when one has forgotten everything we had learned.












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