Hector Alarcon > Hector's Quotes

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“...cuando el alumno está preparado el maestro aparece" (Bolsalegre)”
― Robert Fisher, The Knight in Rusty Armor

“Por que você sempre responde com outra pergunta?
E por que você sempre busca nos outros as respostas às suas
perguntas?”
― Robert Fisher, El caballero de la armadura oxidada

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

“Al vivir, el hombre siente que es todas las personas y todas las cosas, así que no puede anhelar nada puesto tiene todo lo que es posibe tener, y al sentirse todo, no puede hacer daño a nadie ni a nada pues nadie hace daño a uno mismo”
― Ryszard Kapuściński, Travels with Herodotus

“Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.”
― José Saramago, Death with Interruptions

“Have you ever wondered if death is the same for all living beings, be they animals, human beings included, or plants, from the grass you walk on to the hundred-meter-tall sequoiadendron giganteum, will the death that kills a man who knows he's going to die be the same as that of a horse who never will.”
― José Saramago, Death with Interruptions

“É para isso mesmo que nós existimos, para que as pessoas levem toda a vida com o medo pendurado ao pescoço e, chegada a sua hora, acolham a morte como uma libertação.”
― José Saramago, Death with Interruptions

“Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.”
― Jason Ellis

“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
― Winston Churchill

“viver é competição e só os mais preparados recebem as recompensas da natureza”
― Adams Pinto, Jardim dos Famintos

“Your "I CAN" is more important than your IQ.”
― Robin Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

“Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”
― Robin Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny

“Never be a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of you future. You will never be the same.”
― Robin Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny

“Worry drains the mindof its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul”
― Robin S. Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny

“There are no mistakes in life, just lessons.”
― Robin Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some
extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break their
bonds”
― Robin S. Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny

“All success in life, whether material or spiritual, starts with that twelve-pound mass sitting between your shoulders. Or more specifically, with the thoughts that you put into your mind every second of every minute of every day. Your outer world reflects the state of your inner world. By controlling the thoughts that you think and the way you respond to the events of your life, you begin to control your destiny.”
― Robin S. Sharma

“Hay cosas que sólo pueden verse entre tinieblas”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Los libros son espejos: sólo se ve en ellos lo que uno ya lleva dentro.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“There is a Scandinavian saying which some of us might well take as a rallying cry for our lives: ‘The north wind made the Vikings.’ Wherever did we get the idea that secure and pleasant living, the absence of difficulty, and the comfort of ease, ever of themselves made people either good or happy?”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“One must always name a weapon. You cannot trust that which you cannot call by name.”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Fall

“Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Fall

“What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“I'm saying every man is in a cage of his own making.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader.”
― Victor Levin