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“«La vida volverá a ser buena» y «Si puedes sobrevivir a esto, puedes sobrevivir a cualquier cosa». Me he repetido esas frases una y otra vez.”
― Edith Eger, La bailarina de Auschwitz: Una inspiradora historia de valentía y supervivencia

“Ser pasiva es permitir que otros decidan por ti. Ser agresiva es decidir por los otros. Ser asertiva es decidir por ti misma. Y confiar en que eso basta, que tú bastas.”
― Edith Eger, La bailarina de Auschwitz: Una inspiradora historia de valentía y supervivencia

“If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Of course I've got one--a man can't live without a moral code. Mine is that I'm against the burning of witches. Whenever they burn a witch I get all hot under the collar.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Puedes vivir en la prisión del pasado o puedes dejar que el pasado sea el trampolín que te ayude a alcanzar la vida que deseas.”
― Edith Eger, La bailarina de Auschwitz

“me doy cuenta de que los sentimientos, por muy intensos que sean, no son fatales. Y son temporales. Reprimir los sentimientos solo hace que sea más difícil liberarse de ellos. Expresión es lo contrario de depresión.”
― Edith Eger, La bailarina de Auschwitz: Una inspiradora historia de valentía y supervivencia

“No sabemos adónde vamos, no sabemos qué va a pasar, pero nadie puede quitarte lo que pones en tu mente”.»”
― Edith Eger, La bailarina de Auschwitz: Una inspiradora historia de valentía y supervivencia

“Tenemos hambre de aprobación, de atención, de afecto. Tenemos hambre de libertad para aceptar la vida, conocernos y ser realmente nosotros mismos.”
― Edith Eger, La bailarina de Auschwitz: Una inspiradora historia de valentía y supervivencia

“Perdonar es lamentarse por lo que sucedió y por lo que no sucedió, y renunciar a la necesidad de un pasado diferente. Aceptar la vida como era y como es. Por supuesto, no quiero decir que fuese aceptable que Hitler asesinase a seis millones de personas. Solo que sucedió, y no quiero que ese hecho destruya la vida a la que me aferré contra todo pronóstico.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

“Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape scent. For scent was a brother of breath. Together with breath it entered human beings, who couldn't defend themselves against it, not if they wanted to live. And scent entered into their very core, went directly to their hearts, and decided for good and all between affection and contempt, disgust and lust, love and hate. He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“It's hard to recognize discrimination when you live with it”
― Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

“Only when there is no privacy can there be total control”
― Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

“Humor is the only way to overcome depression”
― Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

“Why communism failed: it failed because of distrust, because of a fear for the future.
Because deep down no body believed in a system that was continuously unable to provide for its life citizen's basic needs for forty years or more.”
― Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“But race is the child of racism, not the father.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“The masters could not bring water to boil, harness to horse or strap their own drawers without us. We were better than them. We had to be. Sloth was literal death for us, while for them it was the whole ambition of their lives.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

“Not being violent enough could cost me my body. Being too violent could cost me my body. We could not get out.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“There’s no room for facts when our minds are occupied by fear.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“Forming your worldview by relying on the media would be like forming your view about me by looking only at a picture of my foot.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“The world cannot be understood without numbers. But the world cannot be understood with numbers alone.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“Remember: things can be bad, and getting better.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“Look for systems, not heroes.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think