Quotes - Eric Carrasco (ericcarrasconunez) (Torremolinos, 29620, Spain) Showing 1-30 of 158

#1

“Freedom lies in being bold.”
― Robert Frost

tags: boldness, courage, freedom

#2

“We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

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#3

“Close some doors. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere.”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: inspirational

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#4

“La vida es difícil. Para estar en paz con uno mismo hay que decir la verdad. Para estar en paz con el prójimo hay que mentir.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares

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#5

“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
― Malcolm X

tags: books, reading

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#6

“No espero nada. Esto no es horrible. Después de resolverlo, he ganado tranquilidad. Pero esa mujer me ha dado una esperanza. Debo temer las esperanzas. Tal vez toda esa higiene de no esperar sea un poco ridícula. No esperar de la vida, para no arriesgarla; darse por muerto, para no morir. Ya no estoy muerto: estoy enamorado.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, La invención de Morel / El gran Serafín

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#7

“Creo que parte de mi amor a la vida se lo debo a mi amor a los libros.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares

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#8

“El hombre más poderoso del mundo es el que está más solo”
― Henrik Ibsen

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#9

“The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
― HENRIK IBSEN, An Enemy of the People

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#10

“Vivir sin leer es peligroso, obliga a conformarse con la vida, y uno puede sentir la tentación de correr riesgos.”
― Houellebecq Michel

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#11

“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: happiness

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#13

“Thank God for the things that I do not own.”
― St. Teresa of Avila

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#14

“It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.”
― St. Teresa of Avila

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#15

“Love turns work into rest.”
― Teresa of Avila

tags: love, rest, work

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#16

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#17

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong

37063 likes

#18

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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#19

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: fairy-tales, hope, paraphrased, possiblity

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#20

“Don't explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: paulo-coelho

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#21

“We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the useful, the one we end up by being put in a coffin.”
― Fernando Pessoa

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#22

“The path to paradise begins in hell.”
― Dante Alighieri

tags: heaven, hell, paradise

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#23

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato

tags: love

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#24

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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#25

“Read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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#26