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la duda ante lo que desconcierta y extraña, en lugar del exabrupto inmediato, sería una forma de reaccionar más saludable para todos. Tomarse un tiempo, pensarlo dos veces, dejar pasar unos días, antes de dar respuestas airadas.
Victoria Camps

But if you think that only what is yours is yours, and that what is not your own is, just as it is, not your own, then no one will ever coerce you, no one will hinder you, you will blame no one, you will not accuse anyone, you will have no enemies, and no one will harm you, because you will not be harmed at all.
Epictecus

The things that are up to us are by nature free, unhindered, and unimpeded; the things that are not up to us are weak, enslaved, hindered, not our own. So remember, if you think that things naturally enslaved are free or that things not your own are your own, you will be thwarted, miserable and upset, and will blame both gods and men.
Epictecus

Some things are up to us and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions — in short, whatever it is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or, that is, whatever is not our doing.
Epictecus

I don’t know what the average allotment of good luck in a life is or should be — it’s an unanswerable question, and doubtless there is no ‘should’ in it anyway — but I do know that she was part of my good luck.

tenemos que reivindicar la duda si queremos mejorar la sociedad en la que vivimos y recuperar algo que parece estar cada vez más en desuso: la autenticidad. Lo auténtico está perdiendo la batalla frente a lo aparente, frente a lo virtual.

We are sleepwalking into a mass extinction event —the sixth in our planet’s history, and the first to be caused by human economic activity. The rate of extinction is now 1,000 times faster than before the Industrial Revolution.

La posverdad, es decir, una mentira bien contada, que aporte sensación de verdad y que acuda directamente a movilizar el lado emocional del ser humano, es más rentable que cualquier verdad de cara a forjar opiniones.

Groups, like individuals, will rise to strange heights in answer to a challenge, and vegetate in the absence of challenge.
Breeds there a man?

Be approximately satisfied with approximate happiness. The only thing in life which is clear and beyond doubt is unhappiness.

your art
is not about how many people
like your work
your art
is about
if your heart likes your work
if your soul likes your work
it’s about how honest
You are with yourself
and you
must never trade honesty
for relatability
—to all young poets

most importantly love
like it’s the only thing you know how
at the end of the day all this
means nothing
this page
where you‘re sitting
your degree
your job
the money
nothing even matters
except love and human connection
who you loved
and how deeply you loved them
how you touched the people around you
and how much you gave them

for you to see beauty here
does not mean
there is beauty in me
it means there is beauty rooted
so deep within you
you can’t help but
see it everywhere

how you love yourself
is how you teach others
to love you

the world
gives yo
so much pain
and here you are
making gold out of it
—there is nothing purer than that

to be
soft
is
to be
powerful

fall
in love
with your solitude

it takes grace
to remain kind
in cruel situations

you are in the habit
of co-depending
on people to
make up for what
you think you lack

who tricked you
into believing
another person
was meant to complete you
when the most they can do is complement

when it was i that taught you. when it was i that showed you how to fill. the way i needed to be filled. how cruel i was to myself. giving you credit for my warmth simply because you had felt it. thinking it was you who gave me strength. wit. beauty. Simply because you recognize it. as if i was already not these things before i met you. as if i did not remain all this once you left.

what i miss most is how you loved me. but what i didn’t know was how you loved me had so much to do with the person i was. it was a reflection of everything i gave to you. coming back yo me. how did i not see that. how. did i sit here soaking in the idea that no one else would love me that way.

love is not cruel
we are cruel
love is not a game
we have made a game
out of love

i don’t know why
i split myself open
for others knowing
sewing myself up
hurts this much
afterward

i will not have you
build me into your life
when
what i want is to
builds life with you

—the difference

i am undoing you
from my skin

i don’t know what living a
balanced life feels like
when i am sad
i don’t cry i pour
when i am happy
i don’t smile i glow
when i am angry
i don’t yell i burn

the good thing about feeling in extremes is
when i love i give them wings
but perhaps that isn’t
such a good thing cause
they always tend to leave
and you should see me
When my heart is broken
i don’t grieve
i shatter

We all pursue what we think is best for us, even if it means our extinction. Sometimes, especially if it means that. By the time we attain it, or don’t, it is usually too late anyway.

before knowledge became oficially housed in academe, there used to be men and women of the highest intelligence who privately pursued their own interests. Mostly,of course, they had money; some were eccentric, a few certifiably mad. But money allowed them to travel and research what and where they needed, with no pressure to publish, colleagues to outperform or heads of department to satisfy.

As a woman of independent mind and career, she couldn’t bring herself to cajolery.
Hostess

They strove to find in the control of inanimate matter what they could not find in themselves. In their unconcious yearning for completeness, they built machines and scoured space, seeking, seeking…
Green Patches