“más sabe el que vive sin querer saber que el que quiere saber sin vivir,”
― Benito Pérez Galdós, quote from Fortunata and Jacinta
“La moral política es como una capa con tantos remiendos, que no se sabe ya cuál es el paño primitivo.”
― Benito Pérez Galdós, quote from Fortunata and Jacinta
“apático y de la timidez que era el resultado”
― Benito Pérez Galdós, quote from Fortunata and Jacinta
“Su dentadura había salido con tanta desigualdad que cada pieza estaba, como si dijéramos, donde le daba la gana. Y”
― Benito Pérez Galdós, quote from Fortunata and Jacinta
“Vivir es relacionarse, gozar y padecer, desear, aborrecer y amar. La lectura es vida artificial y prestada, el usufructo, mediante una función cerebral, de las ideas y sensaciones ajenas, la adquisición de los tesoros de la verdad humana por compra o por estafa, no por el trabajo. No”
― Benito Pérez Galdós, quote from Fortunata and Jacinta
Benito Pérez Galdós
Born place: in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
Born date May 10, 1843
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“When external sources of power are sought in personal relationships to overcome inner feelings of powerlessness, power comes not from a place of strength but from a place of weakness. This can only lead to trouble. Using”
― quote from Thank You for Being Such a Pain: Spiritual Guidance for Dealing with Difficult People
“all the hours you grope along the night trail, all the way down to the valley so low, till you bless God for the little crumb of light that means a human home, and you ache and pray to get to that home, be it ever so humble, so you’ll be safe in the light.”
― Manly Wade Wellman, quote from Who Fears The Devil
“Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart.” -Stephen Lawhead, Merlin”
― quote from Chasing Merlin
“By now, I hope you recognize this as one more example of the reductionist paradigm at work, even when it's couched in natural and alternative terms. As we saw in chapter ten, one of the major problems with modern medicine is its reliance on isolated, unnatural chemical pharmaceuticals as the primary tool in the war against disease. But the medical profession isn't the only player in the health-care system that has embraced this element of reductionism. The natural health community has also fallen prey to the ideology that chemicals ripped from their natural context are as good as or better than whole foods. Instead of synthesizing the presumed "active ingredients" from medicinal herbs, as done for prescription drugs, supplement manufacturers seek to extract and bottle the active ingredients from foods known or believed to promote good health and healing. And just like prescription drugs, the active agents function imperfectly, incompletely, and unpredictably when divorced from the whole plant food from which they're derived or synthesized.”
― T. Colin Campbell, quote from Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition
“The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from The Portable Henry Rollins
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