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...presteza inútil, cuando la cobardía persigue y el valor es el que huye.


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MAYNOR CRUZ BATRES Existe el pasado, y también el futuro. El presente no es más que el único segundo que divide la u...
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NICHOLAS SPARKS El pueblo antiguo que deseaba tener una clara armonía moral en el mundo, ordenaba primero su vida n...
CONFUCIUS - Estoy enamorado de tí, y no estoy en el negocio de negarme el simple placer de decir cosas verdad...
JOHN GREEN Pero en los casos en los que no ha sido costumbre sino el más íntimo impulso el que nos ha llevado...
HERMANN HESSE la admiración por el Padre, símbolo de lo cerrado y agresivo, capaz de chingar y abrir, se transpa...
OCTAVIO PAZ —Estoy enamorado de ti, y no me apetece privarme del sencillo placer de decir la verdad. Estoy ena...
JOHN GREEN Pero el sufrimiento pasa. Si la vida, que es todo, pasa, por qué no han de pasar el amor y el dolor...
FERNANDO SAVATER ¿Ven la manera en que está el sol ahora, con las sombras largas y ese tipo de luz suave, brillante...
JOHN GREEN La voluntad, el deseo de vivir, es tan fuerte en el animal como en el hombre. En el hombre es mayor ...
PíO BAROJA —¿Y por qué es necesario tener valor? —le preguntó el gato con tono de indiferencia.
—...
NEIL GAIMAN Y por qué es necesario tener valor? —le preguntó el gato con tono de indiferencia.
—Porqu...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE La Tranquilidad es solo el espacio que existe entre un problema y otro.
GERARDO PALACIOS BORJAS En el camino, solo la partida es sufrimiento; el transcurso es aprendizaje y la llegada es la recomp...
MARCOS LLEMES El peor tipo de llanto no era el tipo que todos podían ver, los lamentos en las esquinas, el desgar...
KATIE MCGARRY El hombre filosófico tiene el presentimiento de que bajo esta realidad en la que vivimos y somos ya...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Rue,, la niña que, cuando le preguntas por lo que mas ama en el mundo, contesta que la musica, nada...
SUZANNE COLLINS Porque, en la vida real, el amor necesita ser posible. Incluso aunque no haya una retribución inmed...
PAULO COELHO Y la belleza es una forma de genio más elevada, en verdad, que el genio; no tiene necesidad de expl...
OSCAR WILDE William Rackham es lo que podríamos llamar un cristiano ateo supersticioso; es decir, cree en un Di...
MICHEL FABER Siempre he pensado, de hecho, que los seres humanos son 'frágiles' al amor. Sufren antes incluso de...
ELISABETTA GNONE Cuando tocas fondo, pierdes el miedo...y es fantástico.
BARBARA HALL De lo que hemos dicho se desprende que la tarea del poeta es describir no lo que ha
acontecido,...
ARISTOTLE Me pregunto si la gente se da cuenta de lo pequeño y cerrado que es el mundo en el que vivimos. Pod...
MARIAM PARRA El libro es jardín que se puede llevar en el bolsillo, nave espacial que viaja en la mochila, arma ...
BENITO TAIBO Porque no vivo ni en mi pasado ni en mi futuro. Tengo sólo el presente, y él es el que me interesa...
PAULO COELHO Cuando tienes un gran amor, debes cuidarlo como si fuera una planta. Debes abonarlo y protegerlo de ...
HIROMI KAWAKAMI Es asombroso el hecho de que una gran parte de nosotros siga inmersa en sueños cuando nos despertam...
NEIL GAIMAN El amor es lo que mueve el mundo. Es la única cosa que permite a hombres y mujeres seguir en pie en...
STEPHEN KING Hoy en día la gente conoce el precio de todo y el valor de nada.
OSCAR WILDE Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas...
VICTOR HUGO pero en la tierra es más feliz la rosa arrancada que aquella que ajándose en el virgen rosal, crec...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Bea dice que el arte de leer se está muriendo lentamente, que es un ritual íntimo, que un libro es...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Los Padres son dueños de todo y la gente no posée nada; es la obra maestra de la razón y la justi...
VOLTAIRE La publicidad es el único trabajo en el que te pagan por hacer las cosas peor de lo que puedes hace...
FRéDéRIC BEIGBEDER El hecho es que el ordenador está aquí para quedarse y los niños saben utilizarlo y nosotros no. ...
TOM SHARPE La primera regla del Club de la lucha es: nadie habla sobre el Club de la lucha. La segunda regla de...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero.
Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olv...
PABLO NERUDA -Yo no aspiro a la fama ni me importa la eternidad. Me conformo con dejar buen recuerdo a los que me...
LUIS CARRENO El mundo no se divide en gente buena y mala; todos tenemos luz y oscuridad dentro de nosotros, lo qu...
J.K. ROWLING «[Abrir el corazón] tiene muchísima relación no sólo con la calidad de vida sino también con s...
BRIAN L. WEISS El corazón de las personas es como un pozo muy profundo. Nadie sabe lo que hay en el fondo. Sólo p...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Pero el amor puede transformar en belleza y dignidad cosas bajas y viles, porque no ve con los ojos,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Una de las mejores razones, si no hubiera otra, para la abolición del dinero, es precisamente que s...
EDWARD BELLAMY Desde temprana edad eran conscientes del escaso valor que el mundo daba a los libros, de manera que ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES Te cuento lo que no me gusta: desde aquí no se ve el óxido, la pintura cayéndose y todo eso, pero...
JOHN GREEN El odio no es nada cuando se contrapone a la supervivencia.
CASSANDRA CLARE — ¿Cómo puedes romper una promesa y quedarte tan campante?
— A veces la gente no es consc...
JOHN GREEN Es como saber que eres el centro, lo único que él ve, que solo te ve a ti. Y eso es tan tierno y e...
NORA ROBERTS cuanto más perfecto es el amor, mayor es la locura, y mayor la felicidad.
ERASMUS El paraguas individual es la imágen favorita de mi padre cuando quiere caracterizar el tiempo en qu...
EDWARD BELLAMY Porque el tiempo es vida, y la vida reside en el corazón. Y cuanto más ahorraba de esto la gente, ...
MICHAEL ENDE Y puedo ver lo que es el supersueño -joyas, pieles, perfumes, batas de seda, anillos, cuadros, auto...
EDMUNDO VALADéS Qué es la vida? Un frenesí.
¿Qué es la vida? Una ilusión,
una sombra, una ficción, PEDRO CALDERóN DE LA BARCA En algún momento hay que dejar de correr y hacerles frente a tus enemigos, lo difícil es reunir el...
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NICHOLAS SPARKS Pero es más que sólo un arañazo. Es un puñetazo en el estómago y una bofetada en la cara. Es un...
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L.M. MONTGOMERY Así, la suerte de la mujer y la del socialismo están íntimamente ligadas, como se ve también
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR el hábito de la desesperación es peor que la desesperación misma.
ALBERT CAMUS La experiencia es el único proceso que puede desalienar la información.
JARON LANIER No importa si no te entienden, lo que importa es que tengas el valor de decirlo.
JACKSON PEARCE Siempre hay un momento, justo antes de empezar a leer, en el que el corazón me da un vuelco y me pr...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Con tal disposición y determinación, ¡qué país es éste para el viajero, donde la más mísera ...
WASHINGTON IRVING ... cuando se habían besado y besado y ella se había dado cuenta que el amor podía cortarte como ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Aquí fue donde vi el río por última vez esta mañana, aproximadamente aquí. Más allá del crep�...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Hallando en cada enfermedad síntomas de la mía, creía tenerlas todas y contraje una más cruel de...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU El tiempo no es algo externo a nosotros, vive en nuestro interior. Sólo nosotros vivimos el pasado,...
SIRI HUSTVEDT El problema es que mucha gente tiene miedo a sufrir cuando en el pasado han tenido experiencias amor...
DAVID COTOS Yo he visto estos solitarios apretujados en increíbles racimos en los andenes y en los coches del t...
ARTURO USLAR PIETRI Cualquier persona que haya estado enamorada conoce la diferencia entre el eros y la lujuria. No hay ...
SYLVAIN REYNARD Si el honor y la sabiduría y la felicidad no son para mí, que sean para otros. Que el cielo exista...
JORGE LUIS BORGES El dolor, cuando se instala en nuestro cuerpo, no quiere irse. Sobretodo si fue forjado en una relac...
LEO BATIC —¿Nunca has parado el mundo?
—¿Qué es parar el mundo?
—Parar el mundo es decidir ...
ALBERT ESPINOSA Si miramos el fuego es porque parpadea, porque resplandece. Lo que atrae nuestra mirada es la luz, p...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Toro: Hay gente que no sabe lo que es el amor.
Pescuezo: ¿Qué es el amor?
Toro: …….e...
DAVID COTOS Esa pareja equilibrada no es una utopía ; existen tales parejas, a veces incluso en el mismo marco ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR La vanidad es la necedad del egoísmo, y el orgullo, la insolencia de la vanidad.
FERNáN CABALLERO Sufrí dos accidentes graves en la vida. El primero ocurrió cuando me atropelló un tranvía... El ...
GéRARD DE CORTANZE El primer paso, indispensable para lograr las cosas que desea obtener en la vida, es el siguiente: d...
JACK CANFIELD A veces oigo una música... O una canción... Una voz de mujer... Y allí encuentro lo que he sentid...
SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH Quien inflama el odio y la violencia siempre es alcanzado por la explosión.
MARTíN BALAREZO GARCíA Quizás yo no soy muy inteligente. Pertenezco al pueblo. Pero ¿no es el pueblo el que hace funciona...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Y nuestra única respuesta es el silencio. Cerramos los ojos como niños pequeños y creemos haberno...
SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH Los jóvenes entendemos que en el siglo 21 es inaceptable que familias enteras tengan que resignarse...
RAFAEL OLIVERO …ser una mujer es tener piel de mujer, dos cromosomas X y la capacidad de concebir y alimentar a l...
ALMUDENA GRANDES Pero el tiempo pasa, y dura. Y hay un momento en que todo se estanca. Los días dejan de contarse, l...
ARTURO PéREZ-REVERTE Las mujeres contribuyen más de la mitad de la nación y no es posible hacer labor legislativa seria...
CLARA CAMPOAMOR Ponerse un huipil era toda una iniciación, al hacerlo uno repetía diariamente el viaje interior ha...
LAURA ESQUIVEL La felicidad busca la luz, por eso nos parece que el mundo es alegre; pero el sufrimiento se esconde...
HERMAN MELVILLE En la vida no todo es seguridad. Es ser capaces de recoger los pedazos después de que todo haya pas...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have be...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. Merchant Of Venice
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious l...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which s...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Good-morrow to thee; welcome:
Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overst...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A politician is one that would circumvent God.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on natur...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest wa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows-- The...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it fee...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess (As I confess it is my nature's p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
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