Quotable quotes: 2 Reader'Digest (1984)

Quotable quotes: 2 Reader'Digest (1984)

21. Great geniuses never make half-mistakes; They have the privilege of immensity in every sense of the word.
22. The wise in their attitude toward the world, has no predilections or prejudices.
 It is on the side that is right.
23. Words can be beautiful. Also the children, also the hopes.
24. For my father, manual labor was not only good and dignifying, he also used to say that it gave clarity to his thoughts.
25. When I run away, the more I start to stumble.
26. Humility is the etiquette demanded by the ceremonial for the audiences with God.
27. Some believe that discipline is a thankless task. For me it is a kind of order that gives freedom to fly.
28. Success has no secrets. Do you know any successful man who has not counted as a triumph?
29. What is memory? It is not a warehouse nor a trunk that keeps in the attic, but an instrument that constantly eliminates the past, turning it into an accessible and acceptable story for each one.
30. Lacking something that makes you feel important, is almost the greatest tragedy that can happen to the human being.
31. Those who think they do not have time to prejudice will sooner or later find time to hope.
32. The inhabitants of a planet without flowers would pass it without life; while we are always crazy to be happy to have so many things around us.
33. Always count failures bores to the one who counts them as the one who hears them.
34. Enthusiasts, for those who are not, always constitute a kind of mortification.
35. As long as the war is considered perverse, it will always have a certain fascination.
When it is considered vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
36. Someday you will verify, if what makes you an exceptional being, if at all you are; it is also inevitable that that will make you a lonely being
37. Every night I give my worries to God. After all, he always reproaches.
38. Many men are praised for their modesty and for their supposed shyness. When in fact, they are too proud to risk making a fool of themselves.
39. After 30 years the body has a will of its own.
40. Although it is very good to leave our traces in the sands of time, we must take care that they point towards the recommended direction.

With affection,
Rubén

Quotable quotes: 1 Reader'Digest (1984)

Quotable quotes: 1 Reader'Digest (1984)

 

1. Most of us would like to return to the simple life, if the path was not so complicated.
2. If two individuals always agree on everything, you can be sure that one of them thinks for both.
3. Humanity can be divided among a multitude that detests that they make it wait, because this bores it; and a few happy beings who like it, because it gives them the time to think.
4. Recognize yourself is not only the most difficult, but also the most annoying.
5. The nations must at least find a way to impose the discipline that is required in elementary school or kindergarten: not to hit , not to  take and share toys; and punish the first one who speaks.
6. Sometimes we say that we are free, because we did not press so hard.
7.The most suitable man for political positions, is the one that meets the qualities of the milkman's horse; It does not pose major problems and knows where to go.
8. The error of youth is to believe that intelligence supplies experience; and the error of mature age is to think that experience replaces intelligence.
9. Men usually ask God in their prayers that two and two be four.
10. Education is a toolbox.
11. A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by question marks.
12. Comedy has to look like the truth. The truth is taken and a curl is added.
13. Memory has the gift of the resurrection.
14. The more I want to do something, the less I consider it work.
15. Very often it is more necessary to change the way of being than to change the scenario.
16. The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge
17. Sometimes the child in one behaves in such a way that the rest of the personality goes behind him slowly shaking his head.
18. Love of nature is a permanent form of love for life.
19. The most pleasant and useful people are those who leave some problems of the universe, so that God cares for them.
20. Moderation is a virtue in those who have no alternative.

With affection,
Ruben