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“Everything flows and nothing stays.”
― Heraclitus

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.”
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

“The problem is, we look for someone to grow old together, while the secret is to find someone to stay a child with.”
― Charles Bukowski

“All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
and Third, it is accepted as self-evident.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Hay unas palabras del Dalai Lama que creo que resumen todo lo escrito: Lo que más me sorprende del hombre occidental es que pierde la salud para ganar dinero, después pierde el dinero para recuperar la salud. Y por pensar ansiosamente en el futuro, no disfruta el presente, por lo que no vive ni el presente ni el futuro. Y vive como si no tuviese que morir nunca, y muere como si nunca hubiera vivido.”
― Helen Flix, Slow life: Vive de forma más consciente (Crecimiento nº 6)

“You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.”
― Nikola Tesla

“Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.”
― Heraclitus

“The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.”
― David Viscott

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“there is nothing permanent except change--”
― Heraclitus

“Take no one’s word for anything, including mine - but trust your experience.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time