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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 342b1fb | Pain is inevitable, suffering is not. Pain and suffering are two different animals. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 17b4da7 | In order to give your mind a little rest, you need to "forget" things deliberately from time to time. This is like draining all the energy from your batteries in order to fully recharge them. When you drain all the energy from the battery of your electronic device and recharge it, the battery lasts longer. Give some rest to your mind. Cease to think about all those duties and responsibilities for a little while." | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| f60c9f8 | Somewhere in this process, you will come face to face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking, gibbering madhouse on wheels barreling pell-mell down the hill, utterly out of control and helpless. No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 063ad6a | VIPASSANA MEDITATION is something of a mental balancing act. You are going to be cultivating two separate qualities of the mind--mindfulness and concentration. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| f621772 | Mindfulness is our emergency kit, readily available at any time. When we face a situation in which we feel indignation, if we mindfully investigate our own mind, we will discover bitter truths about ourselves: for example, that we are selfish; we are egocentric; we are attached to our ego; we hold on to our opinions; we think we are right and everybody else is wrong; we are prejudiced; we are biased; and at the bottom of all of this, we do .. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 39ae180 | We can't examine our own depression without accepting it fully. The same is true for irritation and agitation, frustration, and all those other uncomfortable emotional states. You can't examine something fully if you are busy rejecting its existence. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 0e7bb1b | peripatetic | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 2e5e667 | I checked out the wine. Screw cap. The greatest invention since fire. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| ee55865 | Diesel was smiling at Grandma. "You blew through almost two hundred thousand and you were playing dollar slots? That's impressive." "Especially since some of that time I was winning," Grandma said. "Twelve dollars?" "Yep. I was on a roll." -- | Janet Evanovich | ||
| f4a726a | Are you laughing? I can feel you laughing. My life isn't funny!" "Babe, your life should be a prime-time sitcom." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 1688662 | Lolita has no illusions. She is not one to be dazzled by a man's bearing, by delicate hands, a fashionable frockcoat or a dashing uniform. Her father brought her up to be constantly aware of who she is, something that allows her to meet the attentions of gentlemen with a polite, somewhat reserved attitude. An affected indifference which conceals her distrust. Like the accomplished duelist who, without any fuss, turns his profile to his adve.. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 96c758b | There had been three priests, proponents of so-called liberation theology. They had opposed the reactionary tide from Rome. And in all three cases the IEA had done the dirty work for Iwaszkiewicz and his Congregation. Corona, Ortega, and Souza were prominent progressive priests working in marginal dioceses, poor districts of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo. They believed in saving man here on earth, not waiting for the Kingdom of Heaven. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 308cbe9 | life is like an expensive restaurant where, sooner or later, someone always hands you the bill, which is not to say that you should deny the joy and pleasure afforded by the dishes already eaten. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 8ed8cc0 | Hoy digo Bringas algo en lo que convengo: no son los tiranos lo que hacen a los esclavos, sino estos quienes hacen a los tiranos. - Con un agravante, querido amigo... En los tiempos de oscuridad, la ignorancia del hombre era disculpable. En un siglo ilustrado como este, resulta imperdonable. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| eb6b453 | One day he reads his friend's novel and discovers that Ishmael's account and his own memories of what happened are completely different. So he writes his own version of the story. Call me Queequeg the story begins, and he titles it A Whale. From the harpooner's point of view, Ishmael was a pedantic scholar who blew things out of proportion. Moby Dick wasn't to blame, he was a whale like any other. It was all a matter of an incompetent capta.. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 02094b9 | Estoy convencida de que cada edificio, cada cuadro, cada libro antiguo que se destruye o se pierde, nos hace un poco mas huerfanos. Nos empobrece. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 59682fb | Despues de todo, que seria de nosotros sin nosotros mismos, pensaba. La vida es un naufragio, y cada uno echa a nadar como puede. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 3471ea7 | En cuanto a mi, solo se que no se nada. Y cuando quiero saber busco en los libros, a los que nunca falla la memoria. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 56e9825 | Flowers just keep growing, detached and sure of themselves, she had once said,. We're the fragile ones. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 763b46b | Una biblioteca no es algo por leer, sino una compania --dijo, tras dar unos pasos mas--. Un remedio y un consuelo. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| ee2e6e7 | Me llamo Boris Balkan y una vez traduje La Cartuja de Parma. Por lo demas, las criticas y recensiones que escribo salen en suplementos y revistas de media Europa, organizo cursos sobre escritores contemporaneos en las universidades de verano, y tengo algunos libros editados sobre novela popular del XIX. Nada espectacular, me temo; sobre todo en estos tiempos donde los suicidios se disfrazan de homicidios, las novelas son escritas por el med.. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| fcd82d4 | Seria de justicia recordar que, en tiempos de oscuridad, siempre hubo hombres buenos que lucharon por traer a sus compatriotas las luces y el progreso... Y que no faltaron quienes procuraban impedirlo. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 91e3057 | A poco que vivas, la vida les quita la letra mayuscula a palabras que antes escribias con ella: Honor, Patria, Bandera... La | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 53d77d7 | Fucking incredible! Four miles in five minutes, with a slight maneuver to avoid an oil barge anchored halfway in. And when the HJ peeled away and abandoned the pursuit and the helicopter began to fall back and gain altitude, Teresa stood up in the middle of the speedboat and, still illuminated by the spotlight, lifted a triumphant single finger. Adios Cabroooon. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| e739ff4 | Excellent papier. Rien a voir avec les pates mecaniques d'aujourd'hui... Vous savez quelle est la duree de vie moyenne d'un livre imprime a l'heure actuelle ?... Dis lui, Pablo. - Soixante-dix ans, repondit l'autre avec rancoeur, comme si Corso etait le coupable. Soixante-dix miserables annees. Le frere aine cherchait quelque chose parmi les objets disperses sur la table. Finalement, il s'empara d'une loupe speciale a fort grossissement et .. | books handmade-books literature paper philosophy world | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | |
| 543af04 | Llegamos a la costa con el resto del regimiento y los daneses y los mondieus pegados a los talones, bang-bang y todo el mundo corriendo, maricon el ultimo. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| cdd7bc3 | Lui e la sua barca hanno visto di tutto: il mare veramente brutto, quando Dio s'incazza, e quei lunghi, rossi tramonti mediterranei in cui l'acqua e uno specchio e la pace del mondo e la tua pace, e ti rendi conto di essere una goccia in un mare eterno. | sole tramonto | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | |
| 73533b9 | Reunion de pastores, decia el antiguo refran espanol, oveja muerta. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 698bcf6 |
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| 0dd3a49 | L'uomo crea eufemismi e cortine di fumo per negare le leggi naturali. E anche per negare l'infame condizione che gli e propria. E ogni risveglio gli costa i duecento morti di un aereo che si schianta, i duecentomila di uno tsunami o il milione di una guerra civile...>> | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 98c1b8d | Quello era l'esatto contrario dell'arte, pensava Faulques. L'armonia di linee e di forme non aveva altro oggetto che arrivare alle chiavi intime del problema. Niente a che vedere con l'estetica, ne tanto meno con l'etica che altri fotografi usavano - o dicevano di usare - come filtro dei loro obiettivi e del loro lavoro. Per lui tutto si era ridotto a muoversi nell'affascinante reticolo del problema della vita e i suoi danni collaterali. Le.. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| c9f824d | Il poeta annui gravemente, guardo altrove e non disse altro. Come lui stesso aveva sostenuto piu volte, l'amicizia si nutre di giri di bevute, stoccate spalla contro spalla e silenzi opportuni. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| b48ad96 | En un mundo venal, hecho de hipocresia y falsas maneras, los poderosos, los buitres carroneros, los envidiosos, los cobardes y los canallas suelen encubrirse unos a otros. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 2f0cadb | Dejad leer y dejad danzar, pedia Voltaire. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 782303c | Pues, desde siempre, ser lucido y espanol aparejo gran amargura y poca esperanza. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 5856d62 | Non mi piacciono i regali" mormoro Corso, cupo. "Una volta dei tipi accettarono un certo cavallo di legno. Artigianato acheo, c'era scritto sull'etichetta. Che idioti." | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 8a7f965 | Dantes: que no hay dos libros iguales porque nunca hubo dos lectores iguales. Y que cada libro leido es, como cada ser humano, un libro singular, una historia unica y un mundo aparte. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| c4a2382 | Samo sled edin vek pochti tsialoto s'd'rzhanie na dneshnite biblioteki shche e otishlo na bokluka. No tezi knigi, otpechatani predi dvesta, dri petstotin godini, shche ostanat nepok'tnati. Taka e, i knigite, i svet't, v koito zhiveem, sa takiva, kakvito zasluzhavame... Ne e li taka, Pablo? - Kalpavi knigi, otpechatani na kalpava khartiia. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 281f812 | E' una di quelle notti in cui sei a bordo da cinque giorni egoisti che sembrano venti e tutto cio che riguarda la terra sembra cosi lontano che non te ne frega un cazzo; e ti rendi conto che da un secolo non ascolti chiacchiere radiofoniche, non leggi un giornale, non guardi la tele, non ti parlano di politica ne di corruzione, non ti dicono sa com'e, e la vita continua il suo corso e non succede assolutamente nulla e ti domandi cosa si puo.. | navigare | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | |
| ebdeb24 | Solo dispongo de una vida, dijo. Un breve momento entre dos noches. Y el mundo es una aventura formidable que no estoy dispuesto a perderme. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| df2c862 | Sabe qual e o problema? Encontramo-nos na ultima de tres geracoes que a Historia tem o capricho de repetir de quando em quando. A primeira precisa de um Deus, e inventa-o. A segunda ergue templos a esse Deus e tenta imita-lo. E a terceira utiliza o marmore desses templos para construir prostibulos onde adorar a sua propria cobica, a sua luxuria e a sua baixeza. E e assim que aos deuses e aos herois sucedem sempre, inevitavelmente, os medioc.. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 4288222 | No me digan que no es vergonzoso para la especie humana haber medido la distancia de la Tierra al Sol, haber pesado todos los planetas cercanos, y no haber descubierto las leyes fecundas que hacen la felicidad de los pueblos. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 9d63b8a | No hay mujeres malas --dijo de pronto el Piloto--. Igual que no hay barcos malos... Son los hombres a bordo quienes los hacen de una manera o de otra. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| e91bc3f | Asi podra instruirse y estudiar leyes para sangrar de su ultimo maravedi a los pleiteantes; como hacen vuestras mercedes los abogados, escribanos y otras gentes de mal vivir. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte |