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Jane Austen Foto

“Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”
Ah! No hay nada como quedarse en casa para sentirse realmente cómodo.

Jane Austen libro Emma

Emma (1815)
Works, Emma

Robert Southey Foto

“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.”
Ninguna distancia o lapso de tiempo puede disminuir la amistad de aquellos que están completamente convencidos del valor del otro.

Robert Southey (1774–1843) British poet
Marilyn Monroe Foto

“The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.”
El cuerpo está destinado a ser visto, no a estar todo cubierto.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Handwritten note responding to a question about posing nude, as quoted in International Herald Tribune (5 October 1984)
Variante: The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

George Carlin Foto
Euripidés Foto

“The wisest men follow their own direction.”
Los Hombres mas sabios siguen su propio rumbo.

Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Woody Allen Foto

“If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Fuente: Hannah and Her Sisters

Victor Hugo Foto

“Reason is intelligence taking exercise; imagination is intelligence with an erection.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Unpublished notebook from 1845-50. Published in Seebacher (ed.), Oeuvres Complètes, vol. 10, p. 158 (Laffont, 1989). English translation from Robb, Victor Hugo p. 249 (Norton, 1997).

Mortimer J. Adler Foto

“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”

Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001) American philosopher and educator

Fuente: Joseph Allen (1979). The Leisure alternatives catalog: food for mind & body. p. 134

Albert Einstein Foto

“The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes.”
Lo más difícil de entender del mundo es el impuesto sobre la renta.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Attributed by his friend Leo Mattersdorf, who also said that "From the time Professor Einstein came to this country until his death, I prepared his income tax returns and advised him on his tax problems." In a letter to Time magazine, 22 February 1963. See this post from The Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/03/07/einstein-income-taxes/#more-2031 for more background.
Attributed in posthumous publications

Victor Hugo Foto

“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Variante: There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Stephen King Foto
Ernest Hemingway Foto

“We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.”
Comíamos bien y barato, bebíamos bien y barato, y juntos dormíamos bien y con calor, y nos queríamos.

Ernest Hemingway libro París era una fiesta

Fuente: A Moveable Feast

Milan Kundera Foto

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Variante: When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.
Fuente: How to Win Friends and Influence People

Paulo Coelho Foto
Umberto Eco Foto

“To survive, you must tell stories.”

Umberto Eco libro La isla del día de antes

The Island of the Day Before

Jane Austen Foto

“There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
Hay personas que mientras más se haga por ellos, menos harán por sí mismos.

Jane Austen libro Emma

Fuente: Emma (1815)

Alexander Pope Foto

“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.”
Tener poco conocimiento es peligroso, Tenerlo mucho es igualmente peligroso.

Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet

Misattributed

Mary Kay Ash Foto

“If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't, you're right.”

Mary Kay Ash (1918–2001) Entrepreneur

Variante: If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can not, you are right.

Don DeLillo Foto
John Steinbeck Foto

“To be alive at all is to have scars.”

John Steinbeck libro The Winter of Our Discontent

Fuente: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Chapter VI

Paulo Coelho Foto

“The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Variante: You have passed through the two hardest tests on the spiritual road: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what you encounter.
Fuente: Veronika Decides to Die

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Foto

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Hyperion http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5436, Bk. III, Ch. IV (1839).
Variante: Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
Contexto: "Ah! this beautiful world!" said Flemming, with a smile. "Indeed, I know not what to think of it. Sometimes it is all gladness and sunshine, and Heaven itself lies not far off. And then it changes suddenly; and is dark and sorrowful, and clouds shut out the sky. In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms and kiss it. Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in our hearts; and all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad."

Jon Kabat-Zinn Foto

“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944) American academic

Variante: You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
Fuente: Wherever You Go, There You Are

Jonathan Swift Foto

“Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.”
Visión es el arte de ver las cosas invisibles.

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet

Thoughts on various subjects (Further thoughts on various subjects) (1745)

Elbert Hubbard Foto

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”
No hay fracaso excepto cuando no se intenta más.

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
Wayne W. Dyer Foto
Helen Keller Foto

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
¿Por que contentarnos con vivir a rastras cuando sentimos el anhelo de volar?

Helen Keller libro The Story of My Life

Fuente: Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (8 July 1896) http://www.afb.org/mylife/book.asp?ch=P3Ch4, quoted in supplement to The Story of My Life

William Blake frase: “If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
William Blake Foto

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Annotations to Swedenborg (1788)
1780s

Marilyn Monroe Foto

“Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.”
El sexo forma parte de la naturaleza, y yo me llevo de maravilla con la naturaleza.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Variante: Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.

John Steinbeck Foto

“I guess there are never enough books.”

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer

Fuente: A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia

John F. Kennedy Foto

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

"Proclamation 3560 — Thanksgiving Day, 1963" (5 November 1963) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=9511<!-- Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project -->
1963
Contexto: Today we give our thanks, most of all, for the ideals of honor and faith we inherit from our forefathers —  for the decency of purpose, steadfastness of resolve and strength of will, for the courage and the humility, which they possessed and which we must seek every day to emulate. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.
Let us therefore proclaim our gratitude to Providence for manifold blessings — let us be humbly thankful for inherited ideals — and let us resolve to share those blessings and those ideals with our fellow human beings throughout the world.

Francis Bacon Foto

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
Algunos libros son probados, otros devorados, poquísimos masticados y digeridos.

Francis Bacon libro Essays

Essays (1625)
Contexto: Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Of Studies

Franz Kafka Foto

“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”

Franz Kafka libro El proceso

Variante: It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.
Fuente: The Trial

Martin Luther King, Jr. Foto

“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
Encantado y repelido por la inagotable variedad de la vida

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Fuente: The Great Gatsby

Muhammad Ali Foto

“I hated every minute of it. But I said to myself, 'Suffer now, and live the rest of your life as a champion.”
Odié cada minuto de entrenamiento, pero dije "No renuncies. Sufre ahora y vive el resto de tu vida como un campeón".

Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist

On training, as quoted in "Ali: Born Again!" by Pete Axthelm and Peter Bonventre, Newsweek (25 September 1978)

Marilyn Monroe Foto

“Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

As quoted in Marilyn Monroe : In Her Own Words (1983), edited by Roger Taylor
Variante: Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.

Sigmund Freud Foto

“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”

Sigmund Freud libro El malestar en la cultura

Man kann sich des Eindrucks nicht erwehren, daß die Menschen gemeinhin mit falschen Maßstäben messen, Macht, Erfolg und Reichtum für sich anstreben und bei anderen bewundern, die wahren Werte des Lebens aber unterschätzen.
Fuente: 1920s, Civilization and Its Discontents (1929), Ch. 1, as translated by James Strachey, p.25

Charles Bukowski Foto

“An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.”
Un intelectual es el que dice una cosa simple de un modo complicado; Un artista es el que dice una cosa complicada de un modo simple.

Charles Bukowski libro Notes of a Dirty Old Man

Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969)

Will Rogers Foto

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

Variante: Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Henry David Thoreau Foto

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
Vive en cada estación a medida que pasa; respira el aire, bebe la bebida, saborea la fruta y resígnate a la influencia de la tierra.

Henry David Thoreau libro Walden

Fuente: Walden

Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto
Eudora Welty Foto

“All serious daring starts from within.”

Eudora Welty (1909–2001) American author

Fuente: On Writing (2002)

John F. Kennedy Foto

“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining”
El momento para reparar el techo es cuando brilla el sol

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

by filling three basic gaps in our anti-recession protection.
1962, Second State of the Union Address

Michel De Montaigne Foto

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

La plus grande chose du monde, c'est de savoir être à soi.
Book I, Ch. 39
Essais (1595), Book I
Fuente: The Complete Essays

Albert Einstein Foto
Ernest Hemingway Foto

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country. ~ Horace in Odes, Book 3, Ode 2, Line 13, as translated in The Works of Horace by J. C. Elgood
Notes on the Next War (1935)

Henry David Thoreau Foto
Alexander Pope Foto

“Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.”
Haz el bien a escondidas, y ruborízate al encontrar la fama.

Alexander Pope An Essay on Man

Fuente: An Essay on Man

Marilyn Monroe Foto
William Blake Foto

“It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend.”
Es más fácil perdonar a un enemigo que a un amigo.

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Fuente: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 4, plate 91, line 1

Napoleon Hill Foto

“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”
La mayoría de las personas excelentes han alcanzado su mayor éxito solo un paso más allá de su mayor fracaso.

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author
George Bernard Shaw frase: “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
George Bernard Shaw Foto

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Everybody's Political What's What? (ebook, must be borrowed) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24979564M/Everybody's_political_what's_what (1944), Chapter XXXVII: Creed and Conduct, p. 330
1940s and later
Variante: Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Contexto: Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. Creeds, articles, and institutes of religious faith ossify our brains and make change impossible. As such they are nuisances, and in practice have to be mostly ignored.

Marilyn Monroe Foto

“I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

As quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 40
Variante: I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“I'm a cynical idealist.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald libro This Side of Paradise

Fuente: This Side of Paradise

Václav Havel Foto

“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.”

Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic

International Herald Tribune (21 February 1990)

Leo Buscaglia Foto

“To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Living, Loving, and Learning (1982)
Variante: Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
Fuente: Living Loving and Learning
Contexto: To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

Marilyn Monroe Foto

“Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

As quoted in The Films of Barbra Streisand (2001) by Christopher Nickens and Karen Swenson
Variante: Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Charles Bukowski Foto

“my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.”
Mi alma borracha está más triste que todos los árboles de Navidad muertos del mundo.

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Thomas Jefferson Foto

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Letter to Archibald Stuart http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/skjolly/jeffersonianfederalism.pdf http://books.google.com/books?id=ZTIoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA837#v=onepage&q=&f=false, Philadelphia (23 December 1791)
1790s
Variante: I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.
Fuente: Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Oprah Winfrey Foto
Jane Austen Foto

“My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”
Cuando alguien ha perdido mi buena opinión, perdida la tiene para siempre.

Jane Austen libro Orgullo y prejuicio

Fuente: Pride and Prejudice

Mary Kay Ash Foto
Ernest Hemingway Foto
Paulo Coelho Foto
Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“Every artist was first an amateur.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Progress of Culture (see also: Art)
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)

Jack Kerouac Foto

“I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.”
Me voy a casar con mis novelas y tendré pequeños cuentos para niños.

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Kerouac, as quoted by Allen Ginsberg in The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice (2006), page 250.

“Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.”
Sólo a través de nuestra conexión con los demás podemos realmente conocernos y mejorarnos a nosotros mismos. Y sólo trabajando en nuestro propio ser podemos empezar a mejorar nuestra conexión con los demás.

Harriet Lerner (1944) American psychologist
William Saroyan Foto

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer

Preface
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934)
Contexto: The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Jean Paul Sartre Foto
Madonna Foto
John Steinbeck Foto
Charles Bukowski Foto

“I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.”
Nunca conocí a otro hombre que yo prefiriera ser. Y aunque sea una engaño, es uno con suerte.

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

in Bukowski: Born Into This (2002)
Variante: I've never met another man I'd rather be.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Foto

“Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Variante: We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Marilyn Monroe Foto

“All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.”
Todo lo que una chica realmente quiere es que un chico le demuestre que no todos son iguales.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Lauren Bacall Foto

“Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.”

Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) American actress, model

Fuente: Lauren Bacall By Myself and Then Some (2005)

Napoleon Hill Foto
F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Fuente: Tender is the Night

Martin Luther King, Jr. Foto

“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Last paragraph of section III of Antidotes for fear, page 122 (see link at top of the section)
1960s, Strength to Love (1963)
Fuente: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

John Steinbeck Foto
Charles Bukowski Foto

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
La poesía es lo que sucede cuando nada más puede.

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Jack London Foto

“I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.”
Prefiero cantar una canción salvaje y morir en el intento, que vivir mil años vigilando mi digestión y teniendo miedo de la humedad""

Jack London libro The Turtles of Tasman

Fuente: The Turtles of Tasman

John F. Kennedy Foto

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

Variante: Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto
Salvador Dalí Foto

“I don't do drugs. I'm drugs.”

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist

In an interview conducted by Paloma Chamorro in Madrid (Spain), 1982; as cited in Salvador Dalí: a la conquista de lo irracional, Javier Pérez Andújar (2003) p. 245
Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1981 - 1989
Variante: I don't do drugs. I'm drugs.

Bob Dylan Foto
Helen Keller Foto

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”
El optimismo es la fe que conduce al logro; nada puede realizarse sin esperanza.

Helen Keller libro Optimism

Optimism (1903)
Variante: Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement

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