Maria Jose Navarrete > Maria Jose's Quotes

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

“I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”
― Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe

“He llegado a pensar que después de todo, la conciencia es simultáneamente nuestro cielo y nuestro infierno. El famoso Juicio Final, lo llevamos aquí, en el pecho. Todas las noches, sin ser conscientes de ello, enfrentamos un Juicio Final. Y es de acuerdo a su dictamen que podemos dormir tranquilos o revolcarnos en pesadillas. Somos juez y parte, fiscal y defensor, que mas remedio. Si nosotros mismos no sabemos condenarnos o absolvernos ¿Quién será capaz de hacerlo?…”
― Mario Benedetti

“Mi cabeza es un laberinto oscuro. A veces hay como relámpagos que iluminan algunos corredores. Nunca termino de saber por qué hago ciertas cosas.”
― Ernesto Sabato, El túnel

“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each day. And if you were found with a book, it was an automatic death penalty. She had gotten hold of a copy of ‘Gone With the Wind’, and she would take three or four hours out of her sleeping time each night to read. And then, during the hour or so when they were sewing the next day, she would tell them all the story. These girls were risking certain death for a story. And when she told me that story herself, it actually made what I do feel more important. Because giving people stories is not a luxury. It’s actually one of the things that you live and die for.”
― Neil Gaiman