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Todos los padres y educadores tienen una única y gran misión: estimular a sus hijos y alumnos para encontrar su verdadero camino hacia la plenitud personal.

The drug companies had it the wrong way around. Instead of starting with an illness and developing a drug to treat it, they developed drugs and then tried to figure out what they were good for.

El obrar en libertad y con autonomía son los fundamentos de la vida democrática.

Every letter was a love letter.

La mayoría de las personas entienden el progreso como un ascenso en vertical, por tanto, la tendencia es tratar de subir hacia la cima y ser más que los que quedan por debajo; muchas veces a costa de hacer descender a los que estaban arriba para prosperar uno. Si concibieran el progreso en horizontal también, se abrirían a mayores éxitos.

Necesitamos estimular, si queremos ser eficaces, en la dirección en la que no sólo se obtenga éxito personal, sino también social.

Se estimula cuando se cree de verdad que un niño es capaz de hacer lo que se espera de él. Tal y como es ahora, no como podría llegar a ser. Si no se confía en él, tal y como es en la actualidad, no se le puede estimular.

She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.

The fact that (...) Mitchell remained heartbroken over Madeleine —even though he hadn't gone out with Madeleinte— meant one of two things: either Mitchell's love for Madeleine was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was addicted to feeling forlorn, he liked being heartbroken, and the "emotion" he felt for Madeleine (...) was only a perverted form of self-love. Not love at all, in other words.

Death awaits us. There is no scape. And so we distract ourselves by licking whatever drops of honey come within our reach.

There wer some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.

She had just started living like a grown-up and she'd never felt more vulnerable, frightened, or confused in her life.

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

My real heroes, anyway aren't the people doing things,; the real heroes are people NOTICING things, paying attention.

My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations.

The marks humans leave are too often scars

It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy fight with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human conciousness, a victim—as you will be—of the universe's need to make and unmake all that is possible.

In a way that would have been dangerous if danger retained its relevance

I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed.

I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books (...) which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

Depression is a side effect of dying.

Enlightment came from the extinction of desire. Desire didn't bring fulfillment but only temporary satiety until the next temptation came along. And that was only if you were lucky enough to get what you wanted. If you didn't, you spent your life in unrequited longing.

Todos los niños y adolescentes experimentan la necesidad de estar convencidos de que valen, y que aquellas personas más importantes para ellos, así lo piensan también.

Cuanto menos autocrática y más democrática es una sociedad, menos eficaces son en ella los premios y los castigos, y más eficaz el estímulo.

Quien se desarrolla mediante la creación halla fuerzas para aprender mejor y poner mayor esfuerzo en el resto de enseñanzas no creativas.

El conocimiento o la comprensión de una materia cualquiera, más que en función de la edad, es consecuencia de la existencia de un aprendizaje previo que le sirva de cimiento.