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“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
― Albert Einstein

“El que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha

“Books are keys that unlock the wisdom of yesterday and open the door to tomorrow”
― Sonia Sotomayor, Turning Pages: My Life Story

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
― Frida Kahlo

“The past places no absolute limit on the future.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.”
― Carlos Santana

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
― Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
― Pablo Picasso

“For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.”
― —Vincent van Gogh

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“To engender empathy and create a world using only words is the closest thing we have to magic.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
― Maya Angelou

“Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.”
― Isabel Allende, City of the Beasts

“Maybe the two different worlds we lives in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“When you're a kid, everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“...you don't just stop living because you lose someone. I thought you knew that by now. You don't quit!”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There’s still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don’t think he knows.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
― S.E. Hinton

“Silencio antes de nacer, silencio después de la muerte, la vida es puro ruido entre dos insondables silencios.”
― Isabel Allende, Paula

“The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow in rich soil but in stony land; the plant, with a mother's obstinacy, overcomes obstacles to thrust its roots deep into the ground and take advantage of every drop of water. That, my grandmother explained to me, is how flavors are concentrated in the grape.”
― Isabel Allende, Portrait in Sepia

“...que busca? Tal vez busca su destino. Tal vez su destino es buscar.

...what is he searching for? Perhaps he searches for his destiny. Perhaps his destiny is to search.”
― Octavio Paz, El laberinto de la soledad

“Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
― Anais Nin