Tuare Cabrales

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I had always thought that life was the actual thing, the natural thing, and that death was simply the end of living. Now, in this lifeless place, I saw with a terrible clarity that death was the constant, death was the base, and life was only a short, frgile dream. I was dead already. I had been born death, and what I thought was my life was just a game death let me play as it waited to take me. . .

Death has an opposite, but the opposite is not mere living. It is not courage or faith or human will. The opposite of death is love. How had I missed that? How does anyone miss that? Love is our only weapon. Only love can turn mere life into a miracle, and draw precious meaning from suffering and fear. For a brief, magical moment, all my fears lifted, and I knew that I would not let death control me. I would walk through the godforsaken country that separated me from my home with love and hope in my heart. I wouuld walk until I had walked all the life out of me, and when I fell I would die that much closer to my father.”
― Nando Parrado, Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home

“My duty is to fill my time on earth with as much life as possible, to become a little more human every day, and to understand that we only become human when we love.”
― Nando Parrado; Vince Rause; Masahiko Kaitsu, Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home

“—El sol saldrá mañana —me dijo—, y pasado mañana, y el día después. No dejes que esto sea lo más importante que te ha pasado nunca. Mira hacia delante. Tendrás un futuro. Tendrás una vida.”
― Nando Parrado, Milagro en los Andes