One of my best friends, Celina, hand-made me an Oscar Wilde-quote advent calendar.. We both love Oscar Wilde, and she saw me going through a rough time in my personal life in November and early December. She picked out the quotes in a way she thought would help me most. This is the collaged version… I added each quote to it each day of advent. In hindsight, I should have collaged them altogether in the end! haha. It was particularly exciting for me, because I’d never celebrated advent before.
I want to share this here mainly because this gesture and gift from her really touched my heart, but also because some of the good advice would be of better use to others 😉
Ich bin so dankbar für dich, Celina 🙂
The Quotes:
I always pass on good advice – it is never of any use to oneself.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
There are only two tragedies in life – one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
I have the simplest taste – I am always satisfied with the best.
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.
If you… …are not too long… … … … … … … I will wait for you my whole life.
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much!
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Experience is one think you can’t get for nothing.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
A true friend stabs you in the front.
The truth is rarely pure – and never simple.
Ordinary riches can be stolen. Real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
One can survive anything nowadays, even death. And live down anything but a bad reputation.
I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which require strength and courage to yield to.
When good Americans die, they go to Paris.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being?
This was the quote for the 24th:
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden where the flowers are dead.
