Gisela

“Our capacity for calm ultimately depends on our levels of expectation: if we suppose that most things normally turn out to be slightly disappointing (but that this is OK); that change occurs slowly (but that life is long); that most people are neither terribly good nor very wicked (and this includes us); that humanity has faced crisis after crisis (yet muddled through) – if we are able to keep these entirely obvious but highly fugitive thoughts alive in our minds, then we stand to be less easily seduced into panic.”
― Alain de Botton, The News: A User's Manual

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Rien ne sert de courir il faut partir à point”
― La Fontaine, The Fables of La Fontaine

“un mate es como un punto y
aparte. Uno lo toma y después se puede empezar un nuevo párrafo.”
― Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch