To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not…

Fernando Pessoa
216 citations
To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.
Humanity
17

More Author Quotes

The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own
I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist. ✨ Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). Book of Disquietude, Carcanet Press Limited
My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have no-one but themselves to whom they can tell their dreams and show what woul … ▶
We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never do. A work that’s finished is at least finished. It may be poor, but it exists, like the miser … ▶
I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner. ✨ The Book of Disquiet. Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 79, 1982.

To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes