"Treat your enemies as if they were precious jewels, because it's your enemies that build your tolerance and patience on the road to your enlightenment."

 

From Phil Borges "Photos of endangered cultures" @ TED

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life"

 

Samuel Johnson

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

from "The road not taken" by Robert Frost

The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

 

Anatole France

"Do it right. You just have one life!"

"La vida personal, la expresión, el conocimiento y la historia avanzan oblicuamente, y no directamente, hacia fines o hacia conceptos. Lo que se busca demasiado deliberadamente no se consigue."

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

"My rule is, if I can’t share it with you, I won’t take it."

Richard M. Stallman

"Omitir siempre una palabra, recurrir a metáforas ineptas y a perífrasis evidentes, es quizá el modo más enfático de indicarla."

El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan. Jorge Luis Borges

"Entre la idea
Y la realidad
Entre el gesto
Y el acto
Está la sombra."

“Los hombres huecos”, T. S. Elliot

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’
‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat.
‘I don’t much care where —’ said Alice.
‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

"When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing to himself."

Louis Nizer

"El único verdadero viaje de descubrimiento consiste no en buscar nuevos paisajes, sino en mirar con nuevos ojos."

Marcel Proust

"A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist."

Louis Nizer

"The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit."

Wade Davis

"We need to be the change we wish to see in the world."

Mahatma Gandhi

"Dentro de veinte años lamentaras más las cosas que no hiciste que las que hiciste. Así que suelta amarras y abandona el puerto seguro. Atrapa los vientos en tus velas. Explora. Sueña. Descubre."

Mark Twain