La Source might seem merely a pretty bagatelle.
LEO DELIBES También a mí me dan miedo las estrellas y todas esas cosas que no se abarcan o no se acaban nunca
MIGUEL DELIBES Él no tenía autonomía ni capacidad de decisión. El poder de decisión le llega al hombre cuando ...
MIGUEL DELIBES Le dolía que los hechos pasasen con esta facilidad a ser recuerdos; notar la sensación de que nada...
MIGUEL DELIBES Algo se marchitó de repente muy dentro de su ser: quizá la fe en la perennidad de la infancia. Adv...
MIGUEL DELIBES Todos eran efímeros y transitorios, y a la vuelta de cien años no quedaría rastro de ellos sobre ...
MIGUEL DELIBES -Qué quiere, señor cura. Ninguna sabe cuándo le va a llegar la hora. El amor y la muerte, a traic...
MIGUEL DELIBES Pero existen, flotando constantemente en el aire unos entes diabólicos que gozan enredando los acto...
MIGUEL DELIBES Las calles, la plaza y los edificios no hacían un pueblo, ni tan siquiera le daban fisionomía. A u...
MIGUEL DELIBES La cosa pública es un desastre -voceaba, a la menor oportunidad, don Ramón- Cada uno mira demasiad...
MIGUEL DELIBES El llanto era necesario para lavar la conciencia
MIGUEL DELIBES Los hombres se hacen, las montañas están hechas ya
MIGUEL DELIBES Es expresivo y cambiante el lenguaje de las campanas; su vibración es capaz de acentos hondos y gra...
MIGUEL DELIBES Los grandes cambios rara vez resultan oportunos y consecuentes con nuestro particular estado de áni...
MIGUEL DELIBES Su estado de ánimo ante la Mica era un caso especial, diferente del estado de ánimo de sus amigos....
MIGUEL DELIBES Alimentados de pesimismo no vivimos la vida, la sufrimos.
MIGUEL DELIBES All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
LEO TOLSTOY The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
LEO TOLSTOY Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not g...
LEO TOLSTOY Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
LEO TOLSTOY Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
LEO ROSTEN All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what ...
LEO TOLSTOY One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken...
LEO TOLSTOY Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
LEO TOLSTOY He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
LEO TOLSTOY Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it u...
LEO TOLSTOY Music is the shorthand of emotion.
LEO TOLSTOY True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
LEO TOLSTOY You can be a follower of Muhammad or Jesus or Buddha or whomever. Always, they said that the most es...
LEO BUSCAGLIA Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, ev...
LEO TOLSTOY All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
LEO TOLSTOY Only those live who do good.
LEO TOLSTOY But the peasants -- how do the peasants die?
LEO TOLSTOY He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.
LEO TOLSTOY A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workin...
LEO TOLSTOY A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behi...
LEO ROSTEN Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessl...
LEO ROSTEN It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning an...
LEO BUSCAGLIA If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
LEO BUSCAGLIA The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children se...
LEO BUSCAGLIA I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street an...
LEO BUSCAGLIA Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people wan...
LEO BUSCAGLIA Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
LEO BUSCAGLIA Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise.
LEO BUSCAGLIA The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with eve...
LEO BUSCAGLIA Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that...
LEO BUSCAGLIA Hugs make you feel psychologically more secure and together.
LEO BUSCAGLIA Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
LEO BUSCAGLIA In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that th...
LEO TOLSTOY There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which...
LEO TOLSTOY Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precise.
LEO ROSTEN I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I ...
LEO ROSTEN Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relat...
LEO TOLSTOI I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance ...
LEO TOLSTOY The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants,...
LEO BURNETT it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
LEO TOLSTOY True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the peopl...
LEO TOLSTOY What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transf...
LEO TOLSTOY Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
LEO ROSTEN A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of hi...
LEO TOLSTOY The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOY Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capa...
LEO ROSTEN I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom a...
LEO TOLSTOY The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all ...
LEO TOLSTOY To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as sayin...
LEO TOLSTOY The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But ...
LEO TOLSTOY In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, ...
LEO ROSTEN It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.
LEO MCKERN Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!
LEO TOLSTOY Don't lie if you don't have to.
LEO SZILARD The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the dem...
LEO TOLSTOY Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.
LEO ROSTEN But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.
LEO TOLSTOY I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of ...
LEO TOLSTOY Anything is better than lies and deceit!
LEO TOLSTOY Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to u...
LEO TOLSTOY If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
LEO TOLSTOY Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.
LEO TOLSTOY I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are...
LEO TOLSTOY It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and wil...
LEO TOLSTOY Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
LEO TOLSTOY It's hard to love a woman and do anything.
LEO TOLSTOY She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here...
LEO TOLSTOY A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he parti...
LEO TOLSTOY We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOY Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity...
LEO TOLSTOY O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath...
LEO ROSTEN A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is e...
LEO TOLSTOY In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
LEO TOLSTOY Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
LEO TOLSTOY I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
LEO TOLSTOY Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
LEO TOLSTOY Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what y...
LEO BABAUTA To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.
LEO BURNETT The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army comman...
LEO TOLSTOY The strongest of all warriors are these two
LEO TOLSTOY A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is n...
LEO BUSCAGLIA Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that the...
LEO ROSTEN I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I ...
LEO TOLSTOY We see things as we are, not as they are.
LEO ROSTEN A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally both in mind and body as irresisti...
LEO TOLSTOY I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be usefu...
LEO ROSTEN Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
LEO BUSCAGLIA When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud...
LEO BURNETT Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
LEO BUSCAGLIA Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But t...
LEO BUSCAGLIA Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
LEO BUSCAGLIA Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
LEO BUSCAGLIA Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about ...
LEO AIKMAN We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
LEO TOLSTOY Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfactio...
LEO BUSCAGLIA What helps people, helps business.
LEO BURNETT I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?
LEO DUROCHER Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.
LEO ROSTEN I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor.
LEO TOLSTOY Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state...
LEO TOLSTOY Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. G...
LEO DUROCHER If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going ...
LEO DUROCHER I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
LEO DUROCHER It was Brooklyn against the world. They were not only complete fanatics, but they knew baseball like...
LEO DUROCHER There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit, and hit with power.
LEO DUROCHER I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my...
LEO DUROCHER The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body sh...
LEO TOLSTOY Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would...
LEO BUSCAGLIA Satire is focused bitterness.
LEO ROSTEN In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they ...
LEO TOLSTOY There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent.
LEO TOLSTOY The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that ...
LEO TOLSTOY People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of une...
LEO XIII If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.
LEO ROSTEN Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very ...
LEO TOLSTOY What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOY I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fif...
LEO ROSTEN I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
LEO TOLSTOY All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.
LEO TOLSTOY If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this en...
LEO BUSCAGLIA The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes an...
LEO BUSCAGLIA Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.
LEO BUSCAGLIA Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night.
LEO AIKMAN A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority.
LEO BAECK Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
LEO DUROCHER Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wid...
LEO TOLSTOY Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest co...
LEO BUSCAGLIA What you are is God's gift to you, what you do with yourself is your gift to God.
LEO BUSCAGLIA The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people wan...
LEO BUSCAGLIA We all need each other.
LEO BUSCAGLIA Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.
LEO BUSCAGLIA What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
LEO BUSCAGLIA We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow, it may rain.
LEO DUROCHER Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.
LEO DUROCHER There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external f...
LEO BUSCAGLIA I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a...
LEO BUSCAGLIA If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind o...
LEO BURNETT I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good on...
LEO BURNETT Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.
LEO BURNETT Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
LEO AIKMAN The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because i...
LEO STEIN If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business ...
LEO BURNETT Joy can only be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in...
LEO TOLSTOY In essence we have become addicted to the certainty, sureness or sense of security that our faith pr...
LEO BOOTH Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest c...
LEO BUSCAGLIA Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
LEO TOLSTOY When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mu...
LEO BURNETT I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom a...
LEO TOLSTOY Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love mea...
LEO BUSCAGLIA The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because ...
LEO STEIN Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
LEO BUSCAGLIA The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
LEO TOLSTOY How can one be well...when one suffers morally?
LEO TOLSTOY There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the str...
LEO ROSTEN The Kingdom of God is within you.. and all beings.
LEO TOLSTOY There are only five things you can do in baseball: run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.
LEO DUROCHER Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.
LEO DUROCHER It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he...
LEO TOLSTOY Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
LEO TOLSTOY I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
LEO ROSTEN But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.
LEO TOLSTOY Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
LEO TOLSTOY There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
LEO TOLSTOY Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
LEO ROSTEN A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
LEO ROSTEN I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take...
JOHN LEO I was with my mum in the shops, a ladies boutique or something, and I was asked what I wanted to be ...
LEO VARADKAR An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - ...
MELISSA LEO I met Roger Ebert at an independent-film awards or something. And he said, 'When I saw you just ...
LEO FITZPATRICK If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing b...
LEO BURNETT We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hel...
LEO BURNETT The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
LEO TOLSTOY When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those...
LEO BUSCAGLIA There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
LEO TOLSTOY We really need to come behind and press for marriage equality in Northern Ireland.
LEO VARADKAR War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within the...
LEO TOLSTOY Change is the end result of all true learning.
LEO BUSCAGLIA The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes an...
LEO BUSCAGLIA Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
LEO BUSCAGLIA