“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on. Use your time to bathe yourself in that gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession…
What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.”
-Anna Deavere Smith
“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man (and woman), when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.”
-Henry Miller
One of the most healing things you can do is recognize where in your life you are your own poison.
-Dr. Steve Maraboli
Una de las cosas mas curativas que puedes hacer es reconocer en que lugares de tu vida eres tu propio veneno
-Dr. Steve Maraboli
The strength of a man isn’t seen in the power of his arms.
It’s seen in the love with which he embraces you.
Dr. Steve Marabali
El poder de un hombre no se encuentra en la fuerza de sus brazos,
Se encuentre en el amor con cual el te abraza.
Dr. Steve Marabali
-For Her
“Eres, sin duda, mía. Y soy, sin duda, tuyo. No importa nada. No importa lo que hagamos, lo que deseemos, lo que esperemos. No importa otra vez la distancia, ni esa pequeña muerte de la ausencia; no importa ya ni el tiempo, ni el olvido, ni la sangre buscándote, ni el mutilado encuentro. Eres ya mía, mía, sin palabras, sin giros, sin metáforas; mía ya sin ti misma, como tuyo sin mí: los dos en uno, sin nosotros.”
— Cartas a Chepita, Jaime Sabines

Out of the night that covers me, black as the pit form pole to pole. I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance i have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade. And yet the menace of the years finds, and shall find me, unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishment the scroll. I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.
-William Ernest Henley
En la noche que me envuelve, negra como un poso insondable. Doy gracias al dios que fuese por mi alma inconquistable. Dentro de las feroces garras de la circunstancia, no me he lamentado ni he llorado. Bajo los golpes del azar, mi cabeza sangra, pero no se doblega. Mas alla de este lugar de ira y llantos, se encuentra el horror inminente de la sombra. Y aun así, la amenaza de los anos me encuentra y me encontrara sin miedo. No importa cuan estrecha sea la puerta, cuan cargada de castigos la sentencia. Soy el amo de mi destino. Soy el capitán de mi alma.
-William Ernest Henley
Wherever life takes you, leave the place shaking, disrupted and trying to imagine what it was like before you came. Be a force for change. For Pondering. And re-pondering. For love and the belief in the good of people. Go forth and be a force of the awesome. Do epic, terrifying, unheard of shit. Whatever makes you happy. And drugs. And other “bad” things. And fall in love. If nothing else, fall in love
-Jordan Lejuwaan
The Pain that you’ve been feeling, can’t compare to the joy that’s coming.
-Romans 8:18
El dolor que sientes no se compara con la alegría que vendrá.
-Romanos 8:18
Faith always starts with oneself. It means an overriding sense of responsibility for the universe, making sure that the universe is left in good hands and the belief that things will finally turn out right if we remain faithful.
-Rev. Daniel Berrigan
La fe siempre empieza con uno mismo. Se significa un sobresaltado sentido primordial de responsabilidad por el universo, asegurando que el universo quede en buenas manos y creer que al fin y al cabo todo estará bien si mantenemos nuestra fe.
-Rev. Daniel Berrigan
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