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  • #1
    Napoleon Hill
    “The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”
    Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

  • #2
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

  • #3
    Sándor Márai
    “Que significa 'amar'? Durante anios he pensado que significa conocer a la otra persona..., conocerla perfectamente, con todos sus secretos; conocer cada rincon de su cuerpo, cada reflejo; conocer a fondo su alma, cada una de sus emociones... Quizas sea eso, quizas conocer sea lo mismo que amar. Pero eso solo es una teoria. Despues de todo, que quiere decir conocer? Cuanto se puede conocer a un ser humano? Hasta donde se puede seguir a un alma desconocida? Hasta sus suenios? Y luego adonde? No se puede acompaniar a nadie a su inconsciente. Ni siquiera es necesario esperar a que ella cierre los ojos, se despida de mi y se retire a ese otro mundo, al mundo que llamamos de la noche... Porque existen dos mundos y uno esta mas alla del espacio conocido en el que vivimos, y quizas en ese otro mundo vivamos de manera mas real que en el espacio y en el tiempo...Ahora ya se con certeza que hay otro lugar que es solo nuestro, la propiedad privada de cada uno. (...) Aunque todavia sigo sin saber lo que significa amar... Acaso se puede saber? Y de que sirve saberlo? No tiene nada que ver con la razon. Seguramente el amor es algo mas que el conocimiento. Conocer a alguien no es mucho, tiene unos limites... Amar debe ser algo parecido a seguir el mismo ritmo, una casualidad tan maravillosa como si en el universo hubiese dos meteoros con la misma trayectoria, la misma orbita y la misma materia. Una casualidad tal que no se puede ni calcular ni prever. Tal vez ni exista siquiera (...) Dos personas a las que les gustan las mismas comidas y la misma musica, que caminan al mismo ritmo por la calley que se buscan al mismo ritmo en la cama: quizas sea eso el amor. Que cosa mas rara debe de ser! Como un milagro... Yo imagino que los encuentros de ese tipo deben de ser misticos. La vida real no se basa en tales probabilidades. Creo que las personas que siguen el mismo ritmo, que segregan sus hormonas al mismo tiempo, que piensan lo mismo de las cosas y lo expresan con palabras identicas... bueno, creo que eso no existe. Una de las dos sera mas lenta y la otra mas rapida, una es timida, la otra osada, una ardiente, la otra tibia. Asi es como hay que tomar la vida, los encuentros... Hay que aceptar la felicidad asi, en su estado imperfecto.”
    Sandor Maraï, Divorce à Buda

  • #4
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “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

  • #5
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

  • #6
    John Irving
    “You Got To Get Obsessed and Stay Obsessed.”
    John Irving

  • #7
    Hans Christian Andersen
    “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
    Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

  • #8
    Anaïs Nin
    “What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.”
    Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

  • #9
    George W. Bush
    “Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.”
    George W. Bush

  • #10
    Oriah Mountain Dreamer
    “It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
    It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.
    It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it.
    I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.
    It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithlessand therefore trustworthy.
    I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence.
    I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”
    It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.
    It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.
    It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.
    I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.”
    Oriah Mountain Dreamer

  • #11
    Paulo Coelho
    “And the person who loves wholeheartedly feels free.”
    Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

  • #12
    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
    in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
    Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

  • #13
    Maya Angelou
    “Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”
    Maya Angelou



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