Quotes
Warm and delicious empanadas of wisdom.
“Any time you worry that someone is going to judge you, that is really you judging yourself”
– Joseph P. Kauffman
Until this is recognized you can’t do anything to correct it.
“Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.”
—Robert Holden
Dwell on the beauty of life, watch the stars and see yourself running with them.
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
I’m like a ridiculous little boat, tossed about by my own weather, and praying the storm will end.
Everyone is an assembly of voices, and inner life is their discussion. Our flaws and weaknesses are the voices we listened to more that we should have. Now, when they speak we mistake their voice for our own. These are the voices that confidently led us into every catastrophe. You can slowly change by recognizing this, and opening talks with the ignored and forgotten ones.
When longing is unbearable it becomes a prayer.
The facet of a child that has been damaged beyond the natural repair of time doesn’t grow up but freezes there. It is nonetheless bound unbreakably to the grown-up responsibilities it was always destined to bear. This is the source of the mysterious, exhausted crying you can sometimes silently feel coming from the heart of someone nearby.
Hugh Miller
“I used to think that top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, and climate change. I thought that thirty years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed, and apathy, and to deal with these we need a cultural and spiritual transformation.
And we scientists don’t know how to do that.”
–Gus Speth, a US advisor on climate change
“In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.”
~ Blaise Pascal
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
―W.B. Yeats
“The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering.
The avoidance of struggle is a struggle.
Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame.”
– Mark Manson
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
