Raquel Pimentel > Raquel's Quotes

“We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with a complete sense of self and a complete sense of our own existence — yet we hardly ever pause to consider this wonder.”
― Antonio Damasio, Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain

“A liar should have a good memory.”
― Quintilian

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
― Sigmund Freud

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“May you live every day of your life.”
― Jonathan Swift

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience. (p.9)”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life