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“Puse especial dedicación en darle todo lo que yo necesitaba que ella me diera.”
― Julian Lopez, Una muchacha muy bella

“At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“I so admire anyone brave enough to be open about the moments in their lives they might rather have kept hidden, because their candor helps everyone feel more "normal" and less alone.”
― Lizzie Velásquez, Dare to Be Kind: How Extraordinary Compassion Can Transform Our World

“I loved you with the scientific excuse of the lonely.”
― Lorna Dee Cervantes, Emplumada

“You haven't lived until you've sailed”
― David Sedaris, Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002

“To Vincent, his art was a record of his life more true, more revealing (“how deep—how infinitely deep”) even than the storm of letters that always accompanied it. Every wave of “serenity and happiness,” as well as every shudder of pain and despair, he believed, found its way into paint; every heartbreak into heartbreaking imagery; every picture into self-portraiture. “I want to paint what I feel,” he said, “and feel what I paint.”
― Steven Naifeh, Van Gogh

“Vincent was the victim of his own fanatic heart. “There’s something in the way he talks that makes people either love him or hate him,” he tried to explain. “He spares nothing and no one.” Long after others had put away the breathless manias of youth, Vincent still lived by their unsparing rules. Titanic, unappeasable passions swept through his life. “I am a fanatic!” Vincent declared in 1881. “I feel a power within me … a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.” Whether catching beetles on the Zundert creekbank, collecting and cataloguing prints, preaching the Christian gospel, consuming Shakespeare or Balzac in great fevers of reading, or mastering the interactions of color, he did everything with the urgent, blinding single-mindedness of a child.”
― Steven Naifeh, Van Gogh

“Sometimes I simply remind patients that sooner or later they will have to relinquish the goal of having a better past.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients

“So much of people's fortune, good or bad, depends upon how they choose to fall in love.”
― kate saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide

“I don’t know why I’ve always been like this, why the smallest things make me ache inside. There’s a poem I read once, titled “The World Is Too Much with Us,” and I guess that is the best way to describe the feeling—the world is too much with me.”
― Erika L. Sánchez, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

“Los estudios de economía puede que utilicen modelos matemáticos y métodos estadísticos, pero se parecen más a la astrología que a la astronomía.”
― Yanis Varoufakis, Economía sin corbata: Conversaciones con mi hija

“If indeed all lives mattered, we would not need to emphatically proclaim that "Black Lives Matter." Or, as we discover on the BLM website: Black Women Matter, Black Girls Matter, Black Gay Lives Matter, Black Bi Lives Matter, Black Boys Matter, Black Queer Lives Matter, Black Men Matter, Black Lesbians Matter, Black Trans Lives Matter, Black Immigrants Matter, Black Incarcerated Lives Matter. Black Differently Abled Lives Matter. Yes, Black Lives Matter, Latino/Asian American/Native American/Muslim/Poor and Working-Class White Peoples Lives matter. There are many more specific instances we would have to nane before we can ethically and comfortably claim that All Lives Matter.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

“A veces morir es simplemente irse de un lugar, abandonar a todas las personas y las costumbres que uno quiere. Por ese motivo el exiliado que no desea morir sufre, pero el exiliado que busca la muerte, encuentra lo que antes no había conocido: la ausencia del dolor en un mundo ajeno."

—La continuación”
― Silvina Ocampo

“«La condición del dominio de los GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon) es que los seres, los lugares, los fragmentos de mundo continúen sin tener contacto real. Allí donde los GAFA pretenden «vincular al mundo entero», lo que hacen por el contrario es trabajar por el aislamiento real de cada uno. Inmovilizar los cuerpos. Mantener a cada uno recluido en su burbuja insignificante. El golpe de fuerza del poder cibernético consiste en procurar a cada uno la sensación de tener acceso al mundo entero cuando en realidad cada vez está más separado de él, de tener cada vez más «amigos» cuando cada vez es más autista.»


—Ahora, Comité Invisible—”
― Comité invisible, The Invisible Committee

“There are fundamentally two ways you can experience the police in America: as the people you call when there's a problem, the nice man in uniform who pats a toddler's head and has an easy smile for the old lady as she buys her coffee. For others, the police are the people who are called on them. They are the ominous knock on the door, the sudden flashlight in the face, the barked orders. Depending on who you are, the sight of an officer can produce either a warm sense of safety and contentment or a plummeting feeling of terror.”
― Christopher L. Hayes, A Colony in a Nation

“I was never in danger. Nothing bad can happen to you if you're with your mom. Your mom can stop a bullet from lodging in your heart. She can prop you up when you can't. You mom is your blood and bone before your body even knows how to make any.”
― Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

“The great irony of growing up is that it’s often once you leave your parents’ home that you understand them the most. You get less angry; they get less anxious.”
― Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

“Fitting is a luxury rarely given to immigrants, or children of immigrants. We are stuck in emotional purgatory. Home, somehow, is always the last place you left, and never the place you're in.”
― Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

“The mistake we make is in thinking rape isn’t premeditated, that it happens by accident somehow, that you’re drunk and you run into a girl who’s also drunk and half-asleep on a bench and you sidle up to her and things get out of hand and before you know it, you’re being accused of something you’d never do. But men who rape are men who watch for the signs of who they believe they can rape. Rape culture isn’t a natural occurrence; it thrives thanks to the dedicated attention given to women in order to take away their security. Rapists exist on a spectrum, and maybe this attentive version is the most dangerous type: women are so used to being watched that we don’t notice when someone’s watching us for the worst reason imaginable. They have a plan long before we even get to the bar to order our first drink.”
― Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

“«Uno nunca termina de conocer del todo a las personas, ni aún a las más cercanas [...]. Siempre hay una zona de cada uno que permanece a oscuras, alejada por completo de los demás. Una zona de pensamientos, de actividades, de cualquier cosa. Pero siempre hay un lugar de nosotros en el que no dejamos que entre nadie más. Yo creo que eso es lo que hace a las relaciones con los demás tan interesantes, esa certeza de que, aunque nos lo propongamos, nunca los vamos a conocer del todo»”
― Antonio Santa Ana, Los ojos del perro siberiano

“If you want rest, you have to take it. You have to resist the lure of busyness, make time for rest, take it seriously, and protect it from a world that is intent on stealing it. History”
― Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

“One thing at a time” will always perform a better day’s work than doing two or three things at a time. By following this rule, one person will do more in a day than another does in a week.”
― Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

“People don’t come preassembled, but are glued together by life.” The circuitry in your brain is shaped by the specific experiences you’ve had, and it can be changed as a result of your continuing experiences.”
― Catherine M. Pittman, Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry

“No he sido nunca patriotero, o por lo menos no lo he sido al estilo del señor Caro -que por traducir al Virgilio nunca conoció el río Magdalena-, pero confieso que, desde lejos, hasta los bambucos me comenzaron a gustar. Echaba de menos a mi gente, las travesias por las cordilleras y los llanos, y me hacían falta hasta mis enemigos. Al país - como tierra, como querencia,-hay que aprender a distinguirlo - y verticalmente- del sistema político que lo tiene como lo tiene.”
― Alfredo Molano Bravo

“today, our social media experiences are designed in a way that favors broadcasting over engagements, posts over discussions, shallow comments over deep conversations.”
― Thomas L. Friedman, Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

“The principal factor promoting historically significant social change is contact with strangers possessing new and unfamiliar skills.”
― Thomas L. Friedman, Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

“No athlete, no scientist, no musician ever got better without focused practice, and there is no program you can download for that. It has to come from within.”
― Thomas L. Friedman, Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

“Mi madre lo decía: hay un reloj de esperar y otro de despedirse; el de esperar siempre atrasa.”
― Alejandro Casona, Los árboles mueren de pie

“He was not a scholar – his brain seemed too sluggish or too dreamy to grasp the things demanded of it – but he was never happier than when left alone among books, and would spend hours turning the pages of atlases, novels or tales from history, alive to the alternative versions of himself they seemed to proffer.”
― Patrick Gale, A Place Called Winter

“Adán marchaba llorando,
y mirando para atrás
un paraíso perdido
que no va a recuperar,
y Eva pensaba en la historia que acaba de empezar.”
― Rosario Castellanos, El eterno femenino