Sofía L. Ballesteros > Sofía L.'s Quotes

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Hope clouds observation.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“He who controls the spice controls the universe.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“all types of virtue are really just different aspects of wisdom.”
― Massimo Pigliucci, How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life

“Señor, concédeme serenidad para aceptar todo aquello que no puedo cambiar, fortaleza para cambiar lo que soy capaz de cambiar, y sabiduría para entender la diferencia.”
― Massimo Pigliucci, Cómo ser un estoico: Utilizar la filosofía antigua para vivir una vida moderna

“el estoicismo no se centra en suprimir u ocultar las emociones; más bien se trata de reconocer nuestras emociones, reflexionar sobre lo que las provoca y redirigirlas para nuestro propio bien.”
― Massimo Pigliucci, Cómo ser un estoico: Utilizar la filosofía antigua para vivir una vida moderna

“I think there’s a natural goodness built into human beings. You know when you’ve stepped across the line into evil, and it’s your life’s challenge to try and stay on the right side of that line.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“It seemed both proper and at the same time deeply unfair that so much of life was left to chance.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“... the snow was building so that the
footprints of people who had gone before and
after him in both directions stood out plainly
and not so plainly, too, on the footpath.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“To me it's weird when animals pause because they seem so intelligent, but maybe that's because I associate pausing with thought”
― Sally Rooney

“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything,”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is just as obvious to everyone else.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“Ilya hadn’t realized how much fun it would be to confuse Hayden with compliments. He would have to do it more often.”
― Rachel Reid, The Long Game