Frases y citas en inglés

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“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”

“When the solution is simple, God is answering.”

“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”

“Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.”

“She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.”

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”

“Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.”

“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”

“You are the music while the music lasts.”

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
Haz siempre lo que temas hacer.

“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”

“It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.”

“Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.”
La vida no es difícil de manejar cuando no tienes nada que perder.

“Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”

“A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”

“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”

“Make the most of yourself…. for that is all there is of you.”
Haz lo mejor de ti mismo... porque eso es todo lo que existe de ti.

“Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.”
La vida debe ser rica y llena de amor; no sirve de otra forma, no es buena para nada, para nadie.

“it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”

“It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”

“The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.”
La lectura de un libro es un diálogo incesante, en el que el libro habla y el alma contesta.

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”

“A friend in power is a friend lost.”

“I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.”
Siempre merezco el mejor trato porque nunca aguanto ningún otro.

“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”

“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”

“You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.”

“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”

“The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.”

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”

“Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.”

“Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”

“Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor.”

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

“You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.”

“It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”

“I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.”

“Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.”

“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.”

“A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.”
Una mujer debe ser capaz de besar a un hombre hermosa y románticamente sin experimentar por ello el menor deseo de ser su esposa o su amante.

“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door”

“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”

“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
La verdadera soledad no se limita necesariamente a cuando estás solo.

“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”

“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”

“If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?”

“Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
El pecado y la virtud no existen. Solo hay cosas que la gente hace.

“Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.”

“Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.”

“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”

“This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.”

“The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”

“Nothing will work unless you do.”

“I believe in intuition and inspiration.”

“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”
No cometer errores no está en las manos del hombre; pero de sus errores y equivocaciones el sabio y bueno aprende sabiduría para el futuro.

“I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.”

“May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.”

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
“Sé ordenado en tu vida, común y corriente como un burgués, para que puedas ser feroz y original en tu trabajo”.

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”

“When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.”

“Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.”

“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
Los derechos de cada individuo disminuyen cuando los derechos de uno solo se ven amenzados.

“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.”

“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
Muchas personas se pierden las pequeñas alegrías mientras aguardan la gran felicidad.

“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”
Si conservas tu rostro dirigido al sol, nunca verás las sombras.

“I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.”

“It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun”

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”

“To travel is to live.”

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”

“Everything has it's beauty but not everyone sees it.”

“If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.”

“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”
Existe al menos un rincón del universo que con toda seguridad puedes mejorar, y eres tú mismo.

“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
Soy incapaz de concebir el infinito y, sin embargo, no acepto lo finito. Quiero que esta aventura, que es el contexto de mi vida, continúe sin fin.

“Most men are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

“If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.”

“Boredom: the desire for desires.”

“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”

“I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.”
Soy malo y me voy al infierno, y no me importa. Preferiría estar en el infierno que en cualquier lugar donde tú estés.

“I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.”

“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”

“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.”

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”

“Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”

“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
Mi objetivo es plasmar en el papel lo que veo y lo que siento de la mejor y más sencilla manera.

“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”

“Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought — particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.”

“I've been on a calendar, but never on time.”

“The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.”
El sexo alivia la tensión. El amor la aumenta.

“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.”

“There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.”

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”

“It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better… while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.”

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”