Elsi, has de saber que vivir representa ir siempre hacia adelante, aprovechar cada momento, cada oportunidad y cada necesidad. Tú también lo harás dentro de unos años. Las personas y las muñecas estamos hechas de sentimientos y emociones que hay que ir gastando poco a poco. Son nuestra energía vital.
“Hay dos afirmaciones opuestas que sin embargo son igualmente válidas, porque la vida es contradictoria y paradójica, y esas afirmaciones son:⠀⠀⠀ ⠀
Verdad número uno: Todos somos iguales.⠀
Verdad número dos: Todos somos diferentes.”
“El viaje de la vida se hace de largos trechos tediosos, paso a paso, día a día, sin que suceda nada impactante, pero la memoria se hace con los acontecimientos inesperados que marcan el trayecto. Estos son los que vale la pena narrar.”
“At first, having found his way to Village, he had thought his own brutal beginnings—a fatherless hovel for a home; a grim, defeated mother who beat him and his brother bloody—were unusual. But now he knew that there were communities everywhere, sprinkled across the vast landscape of the known world, in which people suffered. Not always from beatings and hunger, the way he had. But from ignorance. From not knowing. From being kept from knowledge.”
“La realidad es que cada uno es responsable de su propia vida. Nacemos con ciertas cartas del naipe, y con ellas jugamos nuestro juego; a algunos les tocan malas cartas y lo pierden todo, pero otros juegan magistralmente con esas mismas cartas y triunfan.”
“Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none.”
“El ser humano tiene que elegir constantemente: la libertad o la prosperidad y una vida ordenada, libertad alcanzada dolorosamente o la felicidad sin libertad.”
↬[People are constantly forced to choose between having freedom and having success and stability; freedom with suffering or happiness without freedom.]↫
The misery is real, but so is the hope.
So is the hope.
❊
Happy New Year! Here‘s to new opportunities & fresh starts .. [🥂]
“Aprovecha ahora que eres joven para sufrir todo lo que puedas –le decía–, que estas cosas no duran toda la vida”.
“The impossible, I suppose, happens via living.
Will my life be miraculously free from pain, despair, grief, heartbreak, hardship, loneliness, depression? No.
But do I want to live?
Yes. Yes.
A thousand times, yes.”
“I do not want to belong to someone else. I do not want to belong to anyone but myself. I want to be free. Free to live, and to find my own way, to love, or to be alone, but at least it is my choice, and I am so tired of not having choices, so scared of the years rushing past beneath my feet. I do not want to die as I‘ve lived, which is no life at all.”
“People, the people we really love, where did they come from? What did we do to deserve them?”
“Young friend,” I say, “your trouble is that you have no sense of perspective.”
“The stories and legends that have filtered down about witches and werewolves and vampires may have been a way of explaining outrages so hideous that no one in the small and close-knit towns of Europe and early America could comprehend the perversities we now take for granted. Monsters had to be supernatural creatures. They couldn‘t be just like us.”
“Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create."
“Astrophysics teaches us that we‘re not the center of the world.
It teaches us that our universe might not even be the only universe. It teaches us to have a cosmic perspective."
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.
"We barely get any time on this planet. Do not spend it pleasing other people. Fuck politeness. Live life exactly how you want to live it so you can love the life you make for yourself." - Karen Kilgariff
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"I tend to think too much and worry a lot, but reading takes me into a totally different world where there‘s no room for my own bullshit." - Georgia Hardstark
“I know tomorrow is going to come because I‘ve seen it. Sunrise is going to come, all you have to do is wake up.”
“For teachers . . .
who see the child before the student,
who remind us that we all have
special gifts to offer the world,
who foster the importance of standing out rather than fitting in.
And for kids . . .
who find their grit to conquer life´s challenges―
no matter what those challenges may be.
You are heroes."
“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”
“So for me, leadership is about building your own character before you start influencing anyone else. To be a true leader, I think you must first learn what it is like to follow — And to follow without losing your own moral compass, you have to know yourself and appreciate where you come from.”
“Throughout history, all dictators, tyrants, and oppressors, whatever their ideology—whether Aryan, African, Asian, Arab, Slav, or any other racial background; whether defenders of popular revolutions, or the privileges of the upper classes, or God‘s mandate, or martial law—have had one thing in common: the vicious persecution of the written word. Books are extremely dangerous; they make people think.”
“Y todo seguirá igual de lindo siempre, pero no igual de igual.” .. ?
Feel the hell out of your heart. The world needs your heart.
Love your feelings. And use them. To create. To write. To paint. To dance. To sing. To design. To help others feel accepted. To love deeply.
–Excerpt from “What they called you”
“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.”
“In fact,” said Mustapha Mond, “you're claiming the right to be unhappy.”
“All right then,” said the Savage defiantly, “I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.”
“Todos estamos llenos de fronteras. Todos andamos por ahí con nuestras heridas a la derecha, nuestras alegrías a la izquierda. Pero nuestras fracturas siempre sanan. Rompernos es lo que nos permite volver a construirnos a nuestro antojo. Son nuestras continuas muertes las que nos permiten reinventarnos. Sacudirnos los miedos o los dolores que tenemos pegados al cuerpo y volver a nacer.”
“This is a story of two people—one human, one inhuman—who linger in the hazy twilight that separates night from day.” .. 💙
“There are days when I cannot find the sun even though it‘s right outside my goddamn window, when getting out of bed feels like the key in the doomsday machine, so on those days, this is what I tell myself: whatever you are feeling right now, there is a mathematical certainty that someone is feeling that exact thing.
This is not to say you aren‘t special. This is to say thank god you aren‘t special.”
“I know life well enough to know you can‘t count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to. You can‘t stop people from dying. You can‘t stop them from going away.”
“The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
I just found out the name of my blind date .. !!
Gonna leave it at that, it‘ll be more interesting to read it that way .. 😍💙
#blinddatewithabook
“A wrongdoing doesn‘t give us the right to do wrong.”
“So what do you do on flights?”⠀
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“Drink gin. Plot murders.”
(The usual.. 🤣)
“..sometimes it seems like everyone knows who I am except me.”
“We do it ourselves we do it ourselves we DO IT to OURSELVES. In other words (make note of this!): MAN IS THE CREATURE HE FEARS.”
“Scared is what you‘re feeling. Brave is what you‘re doing.”
“Entonces, ¿para qué recuerda la gente? ¿Para restablecer la verdad? ¿La justicia? ¿Para liberarse y olvidar?”
[Then why do people remember? So that they can determine the truth? For fairness? So they can free themselves and forget?]
“The years pass in their hundreds and their thousands, and what does any man see of life but a few summers, a few winters? We look at mountains and call them eternal, and so they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, stars fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes.”
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
“armor is for women who have something to lose”
↣ i have
what i have
and i am happy
i‘ve lost
what i‘ve lost
and i am
still
happy ↢
you must look the things you are scared of
right in the eyes
and say
i am far too smart
to have something as dull as you
deter me
[excerpt from “three things i have learned four thousand miles from home”]
“The big picture cannot be changed. But in the meantime, as Loki once said, we can choose to alter the details. That‘s how we take control of our destiny.”
