Thursday 9 February 2012

Favourite quotes

"I was busy finding answers while you just got on with real life"
- Badly Drawn Boy: "You were Right"

""La ciencia ha eliminado las distancias", pregonaba Mequíades. "Dentro de poco, el hombre podrá ver lo que ocurre en cualquier lugar de la tierra, sin moverse de su casa"."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Cien Años de Soledad

"In Bolivia, only the impossible is possible, and only the possible is impossible"
- My friend, Jose Luis

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." - Anais Nin

"No, I don't like work. I had rather laze about and think about all the fine things that can be done. I don't like work, - no man does - but I like what is in the work, - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and can never tell what it really means." - Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness.

"Droll thing life is - that mysterious logic of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself - that comes too late - a crop of unextinguishable regrets." - Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness.

"If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for." - Thomas Merton