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Hay un muro entre tu y yo Hay un muro en la obscuridad Caricias rotas Buscando volver Y un amor que muere Y no hay nada que hacer

El Muro, Enrique Iglesias

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As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.

Steve Maraboli

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The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person–without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

Osho

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I wish you luck, and stubbornness, and the absence of the need for a permission slip from anybody. Just go fucking do it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

Helen Keller

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Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo

“Cien años de soledad”, Gabriel García Márquez.

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Los libros son espejos: sólo se ve en ellos lo que uno ya lleva dentro

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions … Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.

Bossypants

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Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings, and emotions.

Will Smith

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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez  (via themiseducationofb)

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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Dune (1965), Frank Herbert

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“I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time with what displeases me or hurts me. I have no patience for cynicism, excessive criticism and demands of any nature. I lost the will to please those who do not like me, to love those who do not love me and to smile at those who do not want to smile at me. I no longer spend a single minute on those who lie or want to manipulate. I decided not to coexist anymore with pretence, hypocrisy, dishonesty and cheap praise. I do not tolerate selective erudition nor academic arrogance. I do not adjust either to popular gossiping. I hate conflict and comparisons. I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities. In friendship I dislike the lack of loyalty and betrayal. I do not get along with those who do not know how to give a compliment or a word of encouragement. Exaggerations bore me and I have difficulty accepting those who do not like animals. And on top of everything I have no patience for anyone who does not deserve my patience.”

-José Micard Teixeira (words Meryl Streep live by)

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It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield

W.B. Yeats

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The sun is warm, the grass is green. Breath through the nose, out through the mouth.

- The Next Karate Kid (first line) - Me

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"You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She’s not perfect—you aren’t either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break—her heart. So don’t hurt her, don’t change her, don’t analyze and don’t expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she’s not there."

-- Bob Marley

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The people can decide for themselves if they wanna smoke. The real evil is them companies killing us without our consent. Monsanto. Rio Tinto. Big Pharma. BP. Halliburton. I’ve been reading there’s some dark shit goin’ down. Not that those motherfuckers are ever gonna hire us! The real criminals? They don’t bother with small timers.

- Black Cindy, OITNB season 2