Felipe González

“I shall spend every moment loving. One who loves does not notice her trials; or perhaps more accurately, she is able to love them.
Why must we suffer? Because here below pure Love cannot exist without suffering. O Jesus, Jesus, I no longer feel my cross when I think of yours.”

Bernadette Soubirous (1844–1879) French saint

“The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944) American academic

“I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”

Dale Carnegie book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“Adulthood is within the mind and not in age.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Two are better than one if two act as one. If you believe that two acting as one are better than one, just imagine what an entire team acting as one can do.”

Mike Krzyzewski (1947) American basketball player and coach

“We longed to be in the middle of some neophyte gaze of some library entity, of someone rediscovering paper.”

José Baroja book Mi último invierno

“Already in his old age, at seventy-five years old, after being seriously hospitalized for a severe heart attack, Javier Pérez would remember that only once in his entire existence had he believed he understood what life was.”

José Baroja book Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

“…we transform the sublime into an onion to remain unread.”

José Baroja book Mi último invierno

“Who today asks your poem where the country is going?”

José Baroja book Mi último invierno

“She, perhaps, with a consciousness that many of us in adulthood lack or simply lost, would associate that so much water falling on our fat and heavy heads was due to the crying of some poet who was walking by.”

José Baroja book Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“Waking up, at forty years old, had become somewhat difficult, not only that morning, but since he was thirty.”

José Baroja book Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“If this were a story, we could affirm that it was a stereotype of an old lady, within a space that had lost its daily life around the corner.”

José Baroja book Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“It's been years, months, days, but he still can't get out of his mind those horrible, inhuman images, monstrous creations of subjects who look the same as everyone else; equal to him.”

José Baroja book Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“The demons are always around and he knows it.”

José Baroja book Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“Unfortunately for him, it is not possible to die twice.”

José Baroja book No fue un catorce de febrero y otros cuentos

“…the literary feeds on that fragility of life.”

José Baroja book El curioso caso de la sombra que murió como un recuerdo y otros cuentos

“For the reader, perhaps, this situation will be sadly familiar: witnessing, discovering in these lines, how in a matter of years, what was an eternal oath, had become something so fragile, so disposable, so insignificant.”

José Baroja book El curioso caso de la sombra que murió como un recuerdo y otros cuentos

“She kept saying “I love you,” every time they finished, every time he lost himself inside her, every time they reached that amazing ecstasy of two bodies that already know each other; But, deep down, she, little by little, had begun to doubt that “eternal love,” that verb so easy to conjugate.”

José Baroja book El curioso caso de la sombra que murió como un recuerdo y otros cuentos