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#1

“The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

tags: carl-sagan, cosmos, life, mystery, universe

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#2

“Aquí nos encontramos al fin y lo que antes ocurrió no tiene sentido.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Gold of the Tigers: Selected Later Poems

tags: episodio-del-enemigo

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#3

“EL AMENAZADO

Es el amor. Tendré que ocultarme o
que huir.
Crecen los muros de su cárcel, como
en un sueño atroz. La
hermosa máscara ha cambiado, pero
como siempre es la única.
¿De qué me servirán mis talismanes:
el ejercicio de las letras,
la vaga erudición, el aprendizaje de
las palabras que usó el
áspero Norte para cantar sus mares
y sus espadas, la serena
amistad, las galerías de la Biblioteca,
las cosas comunes, los
hábitos, el joven amor de mi madre,
la sombra militar de mis
muertos, la noche intemporal, el
sabor del sueño?
Estar contigo o no estar contigo es la
medida de mi tiempo.
Ya el cántaro se quiebra sobre la
fuente, ya el hombre se
levanta a la voz del ave, ya se han
oscurecido los que miran
por las ventanas, pero la sombra no
ha traído la paz.
Es, ya lo sé, el amor: la ansiedad y el
alivio de oír tu voz,
la espera y la memoria, el horror de
vivir en lo sucesivo.
Es el amor con sus mitología, con
sus pequeñas magias inútiles.
Hay una esquina por la que no me
atrevo a pasar.
Ya los ejércitos me cercan, las
hordas.
(Esta habitación es irreal; ella no la
ha visto.)
El nombre de una mujer me delata.
Me duele una mujer en todo el
cuerpo.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Gold of the Tigers: Selected Later Poems

tags: amenazado, amor

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#4

“balaustre”
― Real Academia Española, Diccionario de la lengua española

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#5

“HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

tags: apathy, boredom, cynism, ennui, humor

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#6

“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: boredom, human-nature, ignorance

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#7

“I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.”
― Louis C.K.

tags: advice, bored, boredom, inspirational, reprimand, young

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#8

“...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.”
― Susan Cain

tags: boredom, inner-life, introversion, loneliness, strengths

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#9

“Boredom comes from a boring mind.”
― Metallica

tags: boredom

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#10

“I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: afterlife, boredom, heaven, hell, religion

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#11

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: change, tolstoy

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#12

“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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#13

“All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.”
― Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: classic

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#14

“It's hard to love a woman and do anything.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: love, woman

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#15

“We are asleep until we fall in Love!”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: love

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#16

“The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: love, world

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#17

“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”
― Henry Ward Beecher

tags: excellence, inspirational, journey, judgment, personal-growth

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#18

“Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey.

At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

tags: bond, communication, connecting, connection, hands, holding-hands, journey, reaching-out, together, togetherness, touch, touching

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#19

“Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.”
― Erol Ozan

tags: beauty, cars, decisions, discovery, driving, fork, highway, journey, journey-of-life, life, life-lessons, lost, lostness, road, road-trip, roads, route, route-66, transportation, travel, voyage

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#20

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

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#21

“A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

tags: journey, labyrinth, maps, walking

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#22

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
― André Gide

tags: adventure, courage, journey

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#23

“The journey is the treasure.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio

tags: salamon

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#24

“Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

tags: journey, life

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#25

“The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.”
― H.L. Mencken

tags: mentoring, teacher

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#26

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: learning, mentoring, parenting, teacher

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#27

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch

tags: curiosity, education, mentoring, mind, thinking

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#28

“The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.”
― Alexandra K.Trenfor

tags: learn, learning, students, teacher

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#29

“When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready... The teacher will Disappear.”
― Tao Te Ching

tags: appear, disappear, ready, student, tao-te-ching, teacher

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#30

“Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist.”
― Amit Kalantri

tags: adage, amit-kalantri, amit-kalantri-proverb, amit-kalantri-quotes, amit-kalantri-writer, bus, car, catch-line, catchphrase, experiences, experiment, explore, google, information-technology, inspirational, journey, knowledge, motivational, movie-dialogue, movies, observe, path, philosophy, practical, practice, road, search-engine, social-networking, story, student, success, tagline, taglines, tale, teach, teacher, teaching, temporary, tour, tourist, travel, traveller, travelling, trek, trekking, true, truth, truth-finding, voyage, walking-the-road, wisdom

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