Lizzie Eldridge > Lizzie's Quotes

“At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.”
― Federico García Lorca

“In Spain the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.”
― Federico Garcia Lorca

“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”
― Pablo Neruda

“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”
― Karl Marx

“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
― José Ortega y Gasset

“Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.”
― Jose Ortega y Gasset

“The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.”
― José Ortega y Gasset

“Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.
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― Jose Ortega y Gasset

“The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man”
― Jose Ortega y Gasset

“There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.”
― José Ortega y Gasset

“The metaphor is perhaps the most fruitful power of man. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.”
― José Ortega y Gasset

“¿Qué es la vida? Un frenesí. ¿Qué es la vida? Una ficción, una sombra, una ilusión, y el mayor bien es pequeño; que toda la vida es sueño, y los sueños, sueños son.”
― Pedro Calderón de la Barca, La vida es sueño