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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 25fcbea | Thus it is well to seem merciful faithful humane religious and upright and also to be so but the mind should remain so balanced that were it needful not to be so you should be able and know how to change to the contrary. | sovereignty | Niccolò Machiavelli | |
| 13427b9 | She had never been afraid of the dark, but then she had never known a dark like this before. | Alan Brennert | ||
| f02d098 | They were dressed in black, silent, and dry-eyed, as befits the norms of sadness in a country accustomed to the dignity of grief | Isabel Allende | ||
| 5c616a3 | Casi todas las heridas sanan con carino, Irina. Tienes que amarte a ti y amarme a mi. | heridas sanación | Isabel Allende | |
| 83cd95a | la gracia no era morirse, puesto que eso llegaba de todos modos, sino sobrevivir, que era un milagro. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 5597920 | No hagamos promesas que tal vez no podamos cumplir. Vamos a recorrer este camino juntos, paso a paso, dia a dia, con la mejor intencion. Eso es lo unico que podemos prometernos. | promesas | Isabel Allende | |
| 5caf257 | Zacharie did not learn of the sorrow his wife was living becasue she was careful to hide it. Tete kept that first love, the stromngest in her life, a secret. She mentioned it only rarely because she could not offer Zacharie a passion of the same intensity; the relationship they shared was genntle and free of urgency. | love | Isabel Allende | |
| ecf60e6 | 'n 'Hdan l yqr' Gyr m yhtWm bh | reading | Isabel Allende | |
| 72e1e51 | knt Sdyq@ lshHdhyn wmwsyqyy lshwr`; wtnfq 'mwlh `l~ ltrht wlSdqt .. knt tqwl lnfsh why t`dW tj`ydh bs`d@ :m mn mHrr mthl l`mr . | Isabel Allende | ||
| c8ee363 | lqd `rf kyf ymwt , km `rf kyf y`ysh | life | Isabel Allende | |
| 43565ff | mdh hnk fy ljnb lakhr mn lHy@? 'hw lyl Smt wwHd@ fqT? m ldhy ybq~ `ndm l tkwn thm@ rGbt wl dhkryt wl aml? mdh ywjd fy lmwt? lw 'nny tTy` lbq jmd@, dwn klm, dwn tfkyr, dwn twsl ymknny `ndy'dh 'n 'sm`k y bnty. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 17c789b | No era un dolor de musculos entumecidos, sino de tristezas acumuladas y de abandono | Isabel Allende | ||
| 9b11fca | dhlk lHb ljmH lm ykn mskhan mn khyl lmrhq@, bl wujd kn`m@ qSyr@ w`dhb Twyl | Isabel Allende | ||
| 357d422 | People do not belong to others, either. How can the huincas buy and sell people if they do not own them. Sometimes the boy went two or three days without speaking a word, surly, and not eating, and when asked what was the matter, the answer was always the same: "There are content days and there are sad days. Each person is a master of his silence." | happiness human-nature sadness self-realization | Isabel Allende | |
| c0c9fcc | n ldhhn yntqy , yblG , ykhwn , wl'Hdth ttlsh~ , wl'shkhS tnshm ldhkr@ wl ybq~ 'khyran sw~ msr lrwH. lys mhman m jr~ ly, wnm athr ljrwH lty tmyzny. | Isabel Allende | ||
| f6b6417 | she did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously if He himself never had. | life life-philosophy | Isabel Allende | |
| 1931a65 | Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change." - Clara the clairvoyant" | Isabel Allende | ||
| d7761a5 | Se reunian un par de veces al ano en cualquier punto del mapa para vivir unos dias de ilusion y regresar luego con el cuerpo agradecido y el alma alborozada. | Isabel Allende | ||
| d8a5db1 | The calendar is a human invention; time does not exist on the spiritual level. | time | Isabel Allende | |
| 264419d | The point was not to die, since death came anyway, but to survive, which would be a miracle. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 0615263 | Words are free, she used to say, and she appropriated them; they were all hers. She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 06252ad | De la quietud nace la inspiracion y del movimiento surge la creatividad. | creativity | Isabel Allende | |
| 756288d | Los anos transcurren sigilosos, de puntillas, burlandose en susurros, y de pronto nos asustan en el espejo, nos golpean a mansalva las rodillas o nos clavan una daga en la espalda. | Isabel Allende | ||
| a96e9e5 | No hay peor pobreza que la de la gente venida a menos, porque se debe aparentar lo que no se tiene. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 618ce56 | Detente, sombra de mi amor esquivo, imagen del hechizo que mas quiero, bella ilusion por quien alegre muero, dulce ficcion por quien penosa vivo. SOR JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ | Isabel Allende | ||
| ebc4fb2 | La vejez es el mejor momento para ser y hacer lo que a uno le place. | Isabel Allende | ||
| fdc9661 | All you will have is the present. Waste no energy crying over yesterday or dreaming of tomorrow. Nostalgia is fatiguing and destructive, it is the vice of the expatriate. You must put down roots as if they were forever, you must have a sense of permanence. | live-in-the-present nostalgia | Isabel Allende | |
| 9389766 | Love is a house with an unshakable foundation and an indestructible roof. | Yann Martel | ||
| acd8889 | The truth of life is that Brahman is no different from atman, the spiritual force within us, what you might call the soul. | Yann Martel | ||
| 6c9815f | Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time. | Yann Martel | ||
| 4b633fb | Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you. | Yann Martel | ||
| 9c5d68c | To chose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation. | Yann Martel | ||
| 47f64d2 | The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. | Yann Martel | ||
| b7e41c2 | I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It's a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred. | Yann Martel | ||
| b8f47fb | The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile, the lot of widows and homeless children is very hard, and it is to their defense, not God's, that the self-righteous should rush. | morality | Yann Martel | |
| dd4b967 | I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion. The mosque was truly an open construction, to God and to breeze. We sat cross-legged listening to the imam until the time came to pray. Then the random pattern of sitters disappeared as we stood and arranged ourselves shoulder to shoulder in rows, every space ahead being filled by someone from behind until eve.. | Yann Martel | ||
| d3c671e | mjdw~ l`ql dh yrtshrd brkr , ? 'wZyfth lwHyd@ tdbyr l'mwr l`mly@ fHsb ? t'myn lT`m wlthyb wlm'w~ lmdh l yqdm l`ql 'jwb@ 'kbr ? wlmdh l'sy'l@ lty nTrHh tfwq l'jwb@ dy'man lmdh lshbk@ kbyr@ dh knt l'smk qlyl@ l~ hdh lHd ? | mind-power | Yann Martel | |
| 5fed14a | lyk 'n tjry t`dylt dh m knt tryd lnjh. lkthyr ySbH msthlkan, tHSl `l~ s`dtk Hyth ymkn. tSl l~ nqTh tkwn fyh fy q` ljHym, w m` dhlk tjlsh mtktfan w btsmh t`lw wjhk, sh`ran 'nk 'kthr lns HZan `l~ wjh lbsyTh. lmdh? l'n thm@ smkh SGyrh myth `nd qdmyk. | Yann Martel | ||
| ac19cc5 | In my experience, a castaway's worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little. | Yann Martel | ||
| 7d41806 | Without a driver this bus is lost. Our lives are over. Come aboard if your destination is oblivion - it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat, if you want. But it's a sad view. | Yann Martel | ||
| 57886ca | I am magical: I can bleed for five days and not die. | Yann Martel | ||
| 63c0888 | Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious | emotions | Yann Martel | |
| 883116b | The three-toed sloth lives a peaceful, vegetarian life in perfect harmony with its environment. A good-natured smile is forever on its lips...I have seen that smile with my own eyes. I am not one given to projecting human traits and emotions onto animals, but many a time during that month in Brazil, looking up at a sloth in repose, I felt I was in the presence of upside-down yogis deep in meditation or hermits deep in prayer, wise beings wh.. | science | Yann Martel | |
| d96299f | There's no boot." No boot?" No." That makes me sad." I ate it." You ate the boot?" Yes." Was it good?" No. Were the cigarettes good?" No. I couldn't finish them." I couldn't finish the boot." | Yann Martel |