"Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on love   

"In trying to be perfect, he perfected the art of anonymity. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on perfection   

"The first wealth is health."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on wealth
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"Every man needs his Siren to check his courage and strength when he hears her song in his travels through the unknown. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on unknown   

"Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on words quotes   

"To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on kisses and kissing   

"To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on valor   

"To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on chivalry   

"To go against the grain is the secret of bravery. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on courage   

"To write good poems is the secret of brevity. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on poetry and poets   

"To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on writing   

"We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on poetry   

"I imagined I was God for a millisecond and became speechless for a long time. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on god   

"Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on beauty   

"It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on love   

"It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on beauty   

"To understand possible means to understand impossible. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on understanding   

"Based on the law of probability, everything is possible because the sheer existence of possibility confirms the existence of impossibility. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on chance   

"I visited many places, some of them quite exotic and far away, but I always returned to myself. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on places   

"When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on stupidity   

"A star needs a star. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on love   

"To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on writing   

"To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on dignity   

"To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on taste   

"Pretense cannot sustain blind power. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on power   

"Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on rain   

"Those who hate rain hate life. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on rain   

"Possible is more a matter of attitude, a matter of decision, to choose among the impossible possibilities, when one sound opportunity becomes a possible solution. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on opportunity   

"Possible impossibility emerges from an impossible possibility, or possibly, impossible possibility blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on potential   

"Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on poetry and poets   

"When there is noise and crowds, there is trouble; when everything is silent and perfect, there is just perfection and nothing to fill the air. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on perfection   

"If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago, he would've thought they were birds or angels from another world or messengers from other planets. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on history and human nature   

"Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on courage   

"Dream by making and make by dreaming. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on dream   

"Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success we forget the easiness of free beauty lying sad right around the corner, only an instant removed, unnoticed and squandered. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on beauty   

"To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on discipline   

"To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on simplicity   

"The most complicated skill is to be simple. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on simplicity   

"There is only as much space, only as much time, only as much desire, only as many words, only as many pages, only as much ink to accept all of us at light-speed hurrying into the Promised Land of oblivion that is waiting for us sooner or later. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on ambition   

"If unjustified, ambition kills value, eats its own life, kills someone else's desire to fly, cuts their wings, sucks their air. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on ambition