Nicole

“Reading gives liberty to your mind.”
― Aman Jassal, Rainbow - the shades of love

“Cada vez iré sintiendo menos y recordando más, pero qué es el recuerdo sino el idioma de los sentimientos, un diccionario de caras y días y perfumes que vuelven como los verbos y los adjetivos en el discurso, adelantándose solapados a la cosa en sí, al presente puro, entristeciéndonos o aleccionándonos vicariamente hasta que el propio ser se vuelve vicario, la cara que mira hacia atrás abre grandes los ojos, la verdadera cara se borra poco a poco como en las viejas fotos”
― Julio Cortázar, Rayuela

“Your conflicts, all the difficult things, the problematic situations in your life are not chance or haphazard. They are actually yours. They are specifically yours, designed specifically for you by a part of you that loves you more than anything else. The part of you that loves you more than anything else has created roadblocks to lead you to yourself. You are not going in the right direction unless there is something pricking you in the side, telling you, “Look here! This way!” That part of you loves you so much that it doesn’t want you to lose the chance. It will go to extreme measures to wake you up, it will make you suffer greatly if you don’t listen. What else can it do? That is its purpose.”
― A.H. Almaas

“There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances. The superior man espouses events and circumstances in order to guide them. If there were principles and fixed laws, nations would not change them as we change our shirts and a man can not be expected to be wiser than an entire nation.”
― Honoré de Balzac