Fortune Favors the Optimistic
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August 20, 2013
It’s Never Too Late to Live
For what it’s worth: It’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And i hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
-Benjamin Button, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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Si te sirve de algo, nunca es demasiado tarde o, en mi caso, demasiado temprano para ser quien quieres ser. No hay limite de tiempo, empieza cuando quieras. Puedes cambiar o no hacerlo. No hay normas al respecto. De todo podemos sacar una lectura positiva o negativa. Espero que tu saques la positiva. Espero que veas cosas que te sorprendan. Espero que sientas cosas que nunca hayas sentido. Espero que conozcas a personas con otro punto de vista. Espero que vivas una vida de la que te sientas orgullosa. Y si ves que no es así, espero que tengas la fuerza para empezar de nuevo.
-Benjamin Button, El Curioso Caso de Benjamin Button
August 19, 2013
@Simply Living
I can’t understand it. My sister in the capital, she now has all these things that do the work faster. She just buys her clothes in a shop, she has a jeep, a telephone, a gas cooker. All of these things save so much time, and yet when I go to visit her, she doesn’t have time to talk to me.
-Ladakhi Villager
N.E. Kashmir, Indian-Tibetan border
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August 18, 2013
The Lord of Your Life
Little by little, one travels far. It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Rings creator
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Poco a poco uno viaja lejos. Lo que cuenta no es la fuerza del cuerpo, sino la fuerza del espíritu.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Creador de El Senor de los Anillos
August 14, 2013
@Simply Living
We call it “ubuntu, botho.” It means the essence of being human. You know when it is there and when it is absent. It speaks about humanness, gentleness, hospitality, putting yourself out on the behalf of others, being vulnerable. It recognizes that my humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
South Africa
August 13, 2013
@Simply Living
I do not know if you are receiving my letters, but I will keep writing to you as you are always in my mind… We have made an altar to father. We try to keep up our traditions so that we can look forward to the day we can return to our country, although we do not know when that will be. Here we are materially well off, but spiritually deprived. We miss our country. Most of all we miss you. Should Buddha exist, we should keep praying to be reunited. Dear Mother, keep up your mind. Pray to Buddha silently. We will have a future, and i hope it will be soon.
– Tran Thi Nga
Living in Connecticut, writing to her mother in Vietnam
August 13, 2013
LISTEN, LITTLE MAN!
“I am neither a white nor a black nor a red nor a yellow. I am neither a Christian nor a Jew nor a Mohammedan nor a Mormon. I embrace a woman because I Love and desire her, not because I have a marriage certificate or because I’m sex-starved. I don’t beat children. I don’t fish or hunt, even though I’m a good shot and enjoy shooting at targets. I don’t play bridge and I don’t give parties to air my ideas. If my ideas are sound, they’ll air themselves… I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd. I want children and young people to enjoy physical love without hindrance. I do not believe that to be religious in the best authentic sense, a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul. I know that what you call “GOD” really exists, but not in the form you think; GOD Is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you.“
-Wilhelm Reich
(excerpt taken from his book Listen, Little man!)
Quote | August 12, 2013
@Simply Living
Write the wrongs that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble. Let go of all emotions such as resentment and retaliation, which diminish you, and hold onto the emotions, such as gratitude and joy, which increase you.
-Arabic Saying
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