music and other languages, people, reading, travelling, going for long walks, swimming, all kinds of ball-sports, cute furry animals

"the world by night", "coffee & cigarettes" and everything else by jim jarmusch; pretty woman, the holiday, amélie, richter- the enigma, moscow doesn't believe in tears, pulp fiction, star wars II, love actually, a christmas story, monty python, the big lebowski, the 5th element, fanfan & alexandre, buster keaton, charlie chaplin

Der Meister und Margarita, Winnie the Pooh, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Dostoevskiy, Pushkin, Gogol, Solschenizyn, Hesse, Schiller, Aitmatow, The Legend of King Arthur, Harry Potter, siri hustvedt, kafka, sophie's world, le petit prince

mad men, how i met your mother, big bang theory, simpsons, black books, shaun the sheep, friends

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness, of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. (Benjamin Britten)

You can do anything, but not everything.
(David Allen)

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
(Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
(Ambrose Redmoon)

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
(A. A. Milne)

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
(Aristotle)
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
(Lao-Tze)

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
(John Ruskin)

Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching.
(an old Irish saying)

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
(Oscar Wilde)

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
(Oscar Wilde)