Allison, Dorothy.

• My family of friends has kept me alive through lovers that have left, enterprises that have failed, and all too many stories that never got finished. That family has been a part of remaking the world for me.

Angelou, Maya.

• You may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lies. You may tread me in the very dirt, but still like dust I rise.

Auden, W.H.

• In those whom I like I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love, I can:  they all make me laugh.

Augustine.

• No one is really happy merely because he has what he wants, but only if he  wants things he ought to want.   

Basho.

• Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Bentley, Eric.

• If one has truly lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

Bonaparte, Napoleon.

• The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

Camus, Albert.

• Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
• Man's only duty is to be happy.
• The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
  

Carver, George Washington.

• How far you go in life depends on your being tender with  the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these.
  

Chapelain, Maurice.

• The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusion.

Churchill, Sir Winston.

• We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glow worm.
• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
• The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all the hurts.
• If you're going through hell, keep going.

Clarke, Francis A.

• Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will just rot anyway.

Curtis, Ian.

• So this is permanent, love shattered pride -- what once was innocence, turned on its side.
• Love will tear us apart.

d'Souza, Father Alfred.

• For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin  real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
  

da Vinci, Leonardo.

• Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
• Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
• Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.
• As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

de Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin.

• Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Dement, Charles William.

• Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

Difranco, Ani.

• It's fucking terrifying to come back from God-knows-where and have infantile, hysterical Christian right-wingers dominating the national discourse with who-slept-with-whom shenanigans. They just executed a woman in Texas. Anybody heard of Iraq? Can we talk health care? What must the world think of us?
• I'm learning to laugh as hard as I can listen, 'cause silence is violence.
• When I say, "you sucked my brain out," the English translation is : "I am in love with you and it is no fun."

Disraeli, Benjamin.

• Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
  

Dumas, Alexandre.

• Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.

Einstein, Albert.

• As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
• The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
• Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury--to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best for both the body and the mind.
• Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Eliot, T.S.

• Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo.

• The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
• To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
• It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions. It is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Epictetus.

• Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.

Flaubert, Gustave.

• Human life is a sad show, undoubtedly: ugly, heavy and complex.  Art has no other end, for people of feeling, than to conjure away the burden and bitterness.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson.

• I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
   

Franklin, Benjamin.

• If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing.

Galilei, Galileo.

• I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Ghandi.

• An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind.

Hamilton, Alexander.

• Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call genius.
  

Hannibal.

• We must either find a way or make one.

Herbert, Alan Patrick.

• The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
  
  

Hugo, Victor.

• Everything that is great has a sacred horror. It is easy to admire mediocrities and hills, but anything that is too high - a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly of great men as well as a masterpiece - is frightening when seen from too close. Every peak seems to be an  exaggeration. Climbing it is tiring. One slips and loses ones breath on the slopes, one is injured by sharp projections … foaming torrents reveal precipices, summits are hidden by clouds; the ascent is as terrifying as a fall. One has a strange feeling: aversion to the great. One sees the abysses without seeing the sublimities. It is examined by nearsighted men when it is made to be contemplated by eagles.
• The pupil dilates in the night and at last finds day in it, even as the soul dilates in misfortune, and at last finds God in it.
• A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

Huxley, Aldous.

• Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life.  The only completely consistent people are dead.

Johnson, Michael.

• Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

Johnson, Samuel.

• There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

Johnson, Stewart B.

• Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves:  to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.

Joubert, Joseph.

• Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

Jung, Carl.

• Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
• There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
• The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:
  if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
  

Kempis, Thomas A.

• If you wish to be known, and to learn anything to good purpose, be eager to be unknown and accounted nothing.
  

Kierkegaard, Søren.

• If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential — for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.

Laing, R.D.

• Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.

Langenfield, Byron J.

• Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.
  

Lincoln, Abraham.

• I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming  conviction that I had nowhere else to go.

Manson, Charles.

• If you look down at me,  I am a fool. If you look up at me,  I am a lord. If you look straight at me, you see yourself.

McNab, Sandor.

• Nothing determines who we will become so much as those things we choose to ignore.
     

Milne, A.A.

• One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
• How wonderful a thing it is, to have nothing to do all day. And then, having done nothing all day, to rest. (Eeyore)

Mizner, Wilson.

• I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

Monette, Paul.

• To have greatly loved is to sail without ballast -- with neither chart nor cargo, not bound for the least of kingdoms. Nothing remains, except this being free.
• We sail together if we sail at all.

Morello, Tom.

• I am enormously proud to be an American. I would say that the things that our corporate-controlled government has done at best are shameful and at worst genocidal -- but there's an incredible and a permanent culture of resistance in this country that I'm very proud to be a part of. It's not the tradition of slave-owning founding fathers, it's the tradition of the Frederick Douglasses, the Underground Railroads, the Chief Josephs, the Joe Hills, and the Huey P. Newtons. There's so much to be proud of when you're American that's hidden from you. The incredible courage and bravery of the union organizers in the late 1800's and early 1900's -- that's amazing. People of get tricked into going overseas and fighting Uncle Sam's Wall Street wars, but these are people who knew what they were fighting for here at home. I think that that's so much more courageous and brave.

Mother Theresa.

• Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Nietzche, Friedrich.

• The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.
• I am of today and of the has-been; but there is something in me that is of tomorrow and of the day-after-tomorrow and of the shall-be.
• What does not destroy me, makes me strong.
• One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
• He who has a why to live for can bear any how.

Nin, Anais.

• Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
• If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

Paine, Thomas.

• I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

Pitt, Thomas.

• You should never take advice from any man, however well he knows his subject, unless he also knows you.

Poe, Edgar Allan.

• All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Radner, Gilda.

• I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.

Repplier, Agnes.

• It is not so much depravity that afflicts the human race as a general lack of intelligence.

Rostand, Jean.

• If one kills a man, he is an assassin. If one kills millions, he is a conqueror.  If one kills everyone, he is a god.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques.

• It is too difficult to think nobly when one only thinks to get a living.

Roux, Joseph.

• Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

Saturnus.

• Death is when life turns into art.

Sartre, Jean-Paul.

• The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Schalchlin, Steve.

• Part of how we face difficulty with grace and humility is to realize that there is always someone who has it way worse than we do. It doesn't mean we have to deny our own pain — that's self-destructive — but it is always healthy to be able to place our own problems in context. It's how we find the strength to endure and overcome with true victory.

Schopenhauer.

• Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Seneca.

• A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.

Shakespeare, William

• O, what man may within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

Shaw, George Bernard.

• As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
• We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
• You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

Shostakovich, Dmitri.

• Art destroys silence.

Skye, Ione.

• Anything less than a mad passionate extraordinary love is a waste of time; there are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.

Smith, Robert.

• But I like it when that lightning comes.
• Sometimes I think I've seen too much, sometimes nothing at all...and sometimes I think I just forgot what I was looking for...

   

Stein, Leo.

• The wise person questions the wisdom of others because they question their own; the foolish one, because it is different from their own.

Stevenson, Robert Louis.

• You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or
  perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?"

Stoppard, Tom.

• Life is a gamble, at terrible odds -  if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
• Our best hope is to transcend our limitations and be utterly ludicrous.

Tacitus.

• Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.  When perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not
  hear it.

Tully, Brock.

• When I say beautiful things, I'm not necessarily living them; when I live them, the beautiful thing is that words aren't necessary.

Twain, Mark.

• Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value out of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Tzu, Lao.

• A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
  

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang.

• Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
• A useless life is an early death.
• A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects classified with name and form.
• Everything that emancipates the spirit without giving us control over ourselves is harmful.
• When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
• Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.

Ward, William Arthur.

• If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

Washington, Booker T.

• Character is power.

Wheeler, Jon.

• If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

Wiesel, Elie.

• Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Wilde, Oscar.

• Marriage is a long, dull meal, with dessert served at the beginning.
• Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
• The only way to rid temptation is to yield to it.
• Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner.
• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
• Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
• The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
• The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
• The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
• It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
• Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
• The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
• If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
• Behind every exquisite thing that ever existed, there was something tragic.

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• Estoy aquí / por estar, y la nieve / sigue cayendo