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... in each conversation, we sprinkle seeds of curiosity, because therapy can't help people who aren't curious about themselves

People tend to dream without doing, death remaining theoretical.

I've always been drawn to stories -not just what happens, but how the story is told.

life happens and therapy helps us confront our demons when they pay a visit

A veces las palabras no tienen ganas de salir, de ver el mundo; en ocasiones es importante guardarlas

-Esos salvajes nunca podrán contra nosotros... Aunque eran ellos, los mexicas, quienes nos acusaban a nosotros de salvajes, y no puedo decir que no tenían razón.

Life doesn't always turn out the way we plan,

En esta historia, como en todas las del mundo, cada quien cuenta lo que más le conviene

¿Sabes? No tendré la sabiduría de los hombres viejos, pero siempre he creído que las historias pueden curar el espíritu, así como las hierbas pueden curar el cuerpo

El dios de los castellanos era un dios celoso que no permitía que hubiera otros dioses, un dios que era capaz de destruir a todo aquel que no lo adorara...

Cada una de aquellas palabras entró en mí, decidí hacerlas parte de mi espíritu para transformarlas de una lengua a otra, porque cada idioma tiene su espíritu, su música, su sentido y su historia.

... Instead, the industry prized itself on having millions of hours without lost time incidents while hiding away the human wreckage.

El idioma es un regalo que debe apreciarse... y sobre todo, entenderse.

Comenzamos a morir con el primer aliento de vida

Do you think people are different at home than they are here?

What kind of question is that? You´re here and you make money, or fuck up and get fired

... there is no such a thing as a pure fact, innocent of interpretation. Behind every fact presented to the world -by a teacher, a writer, anyone-is a judgement. The judgement that has been made is that this fact is important, and that other facts, omitted, are not important.

The idea of saviors has been built into the entire culture, beyond politics. We have learned to look to stars, leaders, experts in every field, thus surrendering our own strength, demeaning our own ability, obliterating our own selves

But people kid themselves if they think the only life they're living is somewhere else

Bush abandoned sanctions and choose war because his time frame was a political one set by the approaching 1992 presidential elections

Environmental regulation became more and more a victim of "cost-benefit" analysis, in which regulations protecting the health and safety of the public became secondary to how costly this would be for business

I learn, by twenty-one, that any job is a good job.
Even a bad job is a good job; you're lucky to have it.

With the loss of faith in big powers -business, government, religion- there arose a stronger belief in self, whether individual or collective

En las sociedades modernas, uno se busca los ritos de paso que puede