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“Don’t allow the day to end without having grown a bit, without being happy, without feeding your dreams. Don’t be defeated by discouragement. Don’t allow anyone to take away your right to express yourself, which is almost a duty. Don’t abandon the desire to make something extraordinary of your life. Don’t stop believing that words and poetry can change the world. No matter what happens, our essence is intact. We are beings filled with passion. Life is both desert and Oasis. It knocks us down, it hurts us, it teaches us, it turns us into the protagonists of our own stories. Even if the winds blow against us, the powerful masterpiece continues: You can add a stanza. Never stop dreaming, because only with Dreams can we become free.”

“I am who I am and you are who you are…. let’s build a world where I can live without having to stop being me. Where you can live without having to stop being you and where neither you nor me forces the other to be like him/her!”

“La compasion duele. Cuando te sientes conectado a todo, tambien te sientes responsable por todo. Y no puedes mirar hacia otro lado. Tu destino esta ligado a los destinos de otros. Tienes que aprender a cargar al Universo o ser aplastado por el. Tienes que fortalecerte lo suficiente para amar al mundo, y aun mantenerse lo suficiente vacío como para sentarte en la misma mesa con sus peores horrores.”

“Lo unico que se encuentra entre una persona y lo que el/ella quiere de su vida es en muchas ocasiones nada mas que la  voluntad para intentarlo y la fe para creer que es posible.”

“Aunque estes en el camino correcto, te pasaran por arriba si solo te quedas parado “

“Volver a una vida mas simple no significa dar un paso hacia atrás.”

“Habla desde tu corazón. Si no entienden, el mensaje nunca fue para ellos.” 

“Habla mas de tus bendiciones que de tus problemas.”

“Un poco de tonterías, lo necesario para disfrutar la vida, y un poco de sabiduría para evitar los errores. Con eso me da.”

“Es hermoso estar solo. Estar solo no significa estar solitario. Significa que la mente no es influenciada y contaminada por la sociedad.”

“El pasado puede doler. Pero como yo lo veo, uno puede escapar o aprender de el.”

“People know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

“El fin de las guerras será visto cuando deje de ser rentable mantener una.”

“Sin importar que tan grandes las penas, persigue con firmeza el final feliz.”

“Destruye pensamientos negativos cuando primero aparasen. Es ahí cuando son lo mas débiles.”

Not poor

Jose “Pepe” Mujica

“I’m not poor, poor are those who think i’m poor. I have few things, it’s true, the minimum, but only so that I can be rich.”

“I want to have time so that I can dedicate it to the things that motivate me. And if I had a lot of things I would have to tend to them and I wouldn’t be able to do the things I really like. That is true freedom. austerity,  small consumption.  so I can dedicate time to the things I truly enjoy. If not,  I would have to hire a maid, and then I would have someone monitoring things inside the house. And if I have a lot of things I have to dedicate myself to looking out for them so that no one takes them. No thanks, with three little pieces I have enough. We dust them off with the broom between my wife and I; and thats it, it’s over. Then we really have time to dedicate to the things which truly inspire us. We are not poor.”

“Slowly die, those who don’t travel, who don’t read, who don’t listen to music, who don’t laugh at themselves”

“Cree en aquellos que buscan la verdad. Desconfía de quienes la hayan encontrado. Desconfía de todo, pero nunca de ti mismo.” 

” La sabiduría me dice que soy nada. El amor me dice que soy todo. Entre medio de los dos fluye mi vida”

“Cambia tus pensamientos y puedes cambiar al mundo.”

“La Escalada hacia la MADUREZ”

“With any undertaking, there will be many people who will tell you not to do it. When they see that they cannot stop you they will tell you how to do it, and finally when they see that you have done it, they will say they always believed in you.”

“No cuentes los dias, haz que los días cuenten.”

“And we’ve learned…. that love transforms us, that we see further when we dream, and hope helps us defeat fear.’

“Piensa positivamente, busca contactos, ejercita diariamente, come sano, trabaja duro, mantente fuerte, construye fe, preocupate menos, lee mas, se feliz, trabaja de voluntario, relajate, ama, vive.”

“Having a child, planting a tree and writing a book are easy, the hard parts are raising the child, watering the tree and having someone read your book.”

“Forgive me for believing in the honor of doing things for love and for still being that same grown-up kid trying to change the world, before the world changes me…..” 

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels? While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do…”

“Tus visiones se aclararan solo cuando puedas mirar dentro de tu corazón. Los que miran hacia afuera, sueñan, los que miran hacia adentro,  se despiertan.”

“What we don’t say kills us…. Do you know where the words that don’t get spoken go? Where the things you want to do but don’t go? Where the things you want to say but don’t go? Where the things you don’t allow yourself to feel go? We would like for the things we don’t say to be the forgotten, but the things we don’t say accumulate in our bodies, it fills our souls with silent screams. The things we don’t say turns into insomnia, into throat pain. The things we don’t say turn into nostalgia. The things we don’t say turn into ‘I Owe You’s’, into debt, into unfinished business. The words we don’t speak turn into dissatisfaction, into sadness, into frustration. The things we don’t say don’t die, they kill us.”

“Aprende de ayer. Vive por hoy. Ten Esperanza por el mañana.”

“El mayor problema de comunicación es que no escuchamos para entender. Escuchamos para responder.”

” We’ve learned to fly the air like birds, we’ve learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven’t learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters.” 

“La vida es la suma de todas tus decisiones.” 

“Que illusion tan extraña es suponer que la belleza es bondad.” 

“Every action generates a force of energy that comes back to us the same way….. we reap what we sow.”

“Si no intentas de hacer algo mas allá de aquello que ya has maestreado nunca crecerás.”

“Happiness is interior, not exterior, therefore, it’s not about what we have, but who we are.”

“A lot of times I sympathize more with the carpenters, the shoemakers, the plumbers etc., then the whole heard of stupid so called civilized , talkers, called wealthy and educated people.”

“Los analfabetos del siglo 21 no serán aquellos que no pueden leer y escribir, sino aquellos que no puedan aprender, desaprender, y reprender.”

“La Belleza es un resplandor que sale desde adentro y proviene de seguridad interna y un carácter fuerte y bueno.”

“La audacia se encuentre en vivir, no en elegir. Tienes el coraje suficiente para seguir respirando; enfrentando perdidas y sufrimiento y humildad y agradecimiento y regalos y esplendor y confusión. Esto es lo asombroso. Bien o mal, errores o aciertos, nunca podan ser nada mas que cosas pequeñas enfrente de tu  gigante e intrépido espíritu.”

“Prefiero estar en la montaña pensando sobre dios, que en la iglesia pensando sobre la montaña.”

“El poder de la imaginación nos convierte infinitos.”

“Convierte cada día en tu propia obra de arte.”

“From the Australian aboriginals to the Maasai and Zulu people of Africa, the Navajo, the Shawnee and Cherokees to the Tahitians, Eskimos and Maori, the practice of gratitude is very deeply rooted in the majority of indigenous traditions.

   ‘From when you wake up in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for you strength and for your life. Give thanks for you food and for the joy in living. If you don’t find some reason to be thankful the fault is yours.’ -Tecumseh, Leader of the Shawnee people of North America.

“La imaginacion es mas importante que la inteligencia. La inteligencia esta limitada por todo lo que sabemos y entendemos, mientras que la imaginación abarca el mundo entero, y todo lo que hay por aprender y entender.”

“La gente se olvidara de lo que dijiste, la gente se olvidara de lo que hiciste, pero la gente nunca se olvidara de como los hiciste sentir.”

“Crea una vida que se sienta bien en tu interior, no una que solo se vea bien por afuera.”

“Tal vez ser honesto no te gane muchos amigos pero siempre te va a conseguir los indicados.”