Frases de Garth Stein

“Pero, actuemos intencionadamente o por ignorancia, nadie mas que nosotros mismos es responsable de nuestros éxitos o fracasos”

“Vivir cada día como si se lo hubiésemos arrebatado a la muerte. Así quisiera vivir siempre.”

“Un concepto tan simple, pero tan verdadero:

tenemos ante nuestros ojos la respuesta a lo que preguntamos. Somos los creadores de nuestros propios destinos. Pero, actuemos intencionalmente o por ignorancia, nadie más que nosotros mismos es responsable de nuestros éxitos o fracasos.”

“La soledad es algo que sólo existe en la mente, no fuera de ella, y, que, como un virus, es incapaz de sobrevivir sin un anfitrión que lo acoja.”

“Ninguna carrera se gana en la primera curva —dijo—. Pero muchas se pierden allí.”

“En Mongolia, cuando un perro muere, lo sepultan en lo alto de una colina para que nadie camine sobre su tumba. El amo del perro le susurra al oído su deseo de que regrese como humano en su próxima vida. Luego, le cortan el rabo y se lo ponen bajo la cabeza. Le meten un trozo de carne o de grasa en la boca para que su alma se alimente durante el viaje. Antes de reencarnarse, el alma del perro puede errar por los altiplanos desiertos tanto tiempo como quiera. Aprendí eso de un documental del National Geographic Channel, así que creo que es cierto. Dicen que no todos los perros regresan como hombres; sólo los que están listos. Yo estoy listo.”

“Perder la carrera no es deshonroso. Lo deshonroso es no correr por temor a perder.”

“He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.”

“That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.”

“The true hero is flawed. The true test of a champion is not whether he can triumph, but whether he can overcome obstacles - preferably of his own making - in order to triumph.”

“That which is around me does not affect my mood; my mood affects that which is around me.”

“So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast complexity of their own communication.”

“The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.”

“You should shine with all of your light all the time.”

“I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are face-to-face with our worst times. The demon is us!”

“The car goes where the eyes go.”

“Somewhere, the zebra is dancing.”

“My soul has learned what it came to learn, and all the other things are just things. We can't have everything we want. Sometimes, we simply have to believe.”

“[T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish.”

“People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.”

“That which we manifest is before us.”

“To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter everyday. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.”

“We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we know in our hearts is perfect and true, stands before us.”

“This is a rule of racing: No race has ever been won in the first corner; many have been lost there.”

“We had a good run, and now it’s over; what’s wrong with that?”

“The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash.”

“Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.”

“The sun rises every day. What is to love? Lock the sun in a box. Force the sun to overcome adversity in order to rise. Then we will cheer! I will often admire beautiful sunrise, but I will never consider the sun a champion for having risen.”

“Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys!”

“[M]emory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.”

“Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.”

“We are all afforded our physical existence so we can learn about ourselves.”

“Sometimes I believe… Sometimes I really do believe.”

“Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.”

“To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live.”

“Many of us have convinced ourselves that compromise is necessary to achieve our goals, that all of our goals are not attainable so we should eliminate the extraneous, prioritize our desires, and accept less than the moon.”