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“And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“Estamos destinados a inventar nuestro destino, sin segundas oportunidades. Por eso los hombres nos equivocamos y nos defraudamos, y cometemos atrocidades, pero también, gracias a eso, podemos transformar nuestra vida, inventar sus contenidos.”
― Fernando Savater, Ética de urgencia

“She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

“Aclararé lo que entiendo por «mentira», que no sólo es tergiversar a sabiendas aquello que consideramos verdad, sino pricipalmente escamoteársela a quienes tienen derecho a esperarla de nosotros sobre determinados asuntos.”
― Fernando Savater

“Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still had your mother you often thought of the days when you would have her no longer. Now you will often think of days past when you had her. When you are used to this horrible thing that they will forever be cast into the past, then you will gently feel her revive, returning to take her place, her entire place, beside you. At the present time, this is not yet possible. Let yourself be inert, wait till the incomprehensible power ... that has broken you restores you a little, I say a little, for henceforth you will always keep something broken about you. Tell yourself this, too, for it is a kind of pleasure to know that you will never love less, that you will never be consoled, that you will constantly remember more and more.”
― Marcel Proust

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“La realidad es lo que nos ofrece resistencia, incluido nuestro propio cuerpo. Nuestro cuerpo es real, demasiado real, y por eso nos da tantos problemas, porque no se ajusta a nuestros deseos, no está sano a voluntad, no se cura cuando queremos.”
― Fernando Savater

“Cuando una persona se configura para expresarse en 140 caracteres, cuando se habitúa al dicterio o al insulto, pierde capacidad para la argumentación, que es la médula del pensamiento.”
― Fernando Savater, Ética de urgencia

“The system of consumerism may seem like an immovable fact of modern life. But it is not. That the system was manufactured suggests that we can reshape those forces to create healthier, more sustainable system with a more fulfilling goal than 'more stuff”
― Rachel Botsman, What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

“Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.”
― Albert Einstein, On Peace

“What Women's Lib might achieve if their 'consciousness raising' - or in plain English, brainwashing— campaign succeeds is a society whose members have identical roles but are perpetually at war with themselves; a society of males made neurotic by suppressed masculinity, of females made miserable by having masculine roles thrust upon them that contradict their feminine impulses.”
― Arianna Huffington, The Female Woman

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Hemos llegado a ser demasiado normativos e incluso demasiado emotivos. Demasiado normativos no sólo en el sentido de que el 'deber ser' suplanta demasiado al ser, al mundo como es; sino también en el sentido de que perseguimos objetivos sin instrumentos, sin saber “cómo“ . Y demasiado emotivos en el sentido de que el sentir trastorna la 'ratio' .”
― Giovanni Sartori, La Sociedad Multiétnica: Pluralismo, Multiculturalismo Y Extranjeros

“In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.”
― Albert Einstein, On Peace

“Could we possible manage the next phase of human history without first dealing with this penchant for dehumanizing the adversary?”
― Carl Sagan

“I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“You will manage to keep a woman in love with you, only for as long as you can keep her in love with the person she becomes when she is with you.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“La nariz es un órgano entrometido, por algo se dice que alguien mete su nariz en todas partes; en inglés, a los entrometidos se les dice nosey, palabra que supongo algo tiene que ver con la nariz. También las trompetillas prolongan la nariz con la mano. Una pirámide, un reloj de sol, un espolón, un elefante del revés, muchísima nariz, como decía Quevedo, la gloria de las narices no es ya de este mundo. Los cirujanos plásticos les han dado con la puerta en las narices.”
― Ana García Bergua

“Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Slow Man

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
― Doris Lessing

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
― Bertrand Russell

“I need, therefore I imagine.”
― Carlos Fuentes

“Hablamos del olvido, sí, y también hablamos de como no te olvido.”
― Agustín Fest

“I heard we see the world not as it is, but as we are.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Patalear contra la muerte, y ya de paso contra todo lo demás, es el prototipo de sublevación inútil que nunca deja de encontrar angustiada y humorística complicidaden todo optimista bien nacido.”
― Fernando Savater

“To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal — to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“La atracción por la utilidad es tan irresistible, que vemos personas dispuestas a todo por el placer de dar sus comodidades a quienes se les metió en la cabeza que no podrían vivir sin su auxilio.”
― Jacques Lacan, El triunfo de la religión: Precedido de Discurso a los católicos