We live
everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor
going on cold.
And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal
for life is life itself? That is why life
is always like a sketch. No, “sketch” is
not quite the word, because a sketch is an outline of
something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the
sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an
outline with no picture.
-Milan
Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of
Being
How did I know that someday – at college, in Europe,
somewhere, anywhere- the bell jar, with its stifling
distortions, wouldn’t descend again?
-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
The characters in my novels are my own
unrealized possibilities. That is why I
am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by
them.
Each one has crossed a border that I myself
have circumvented. It is that
crossed border (the border beyond which my own “I”
ends) which attracts me the most. For beyond that
border begins the secret the novel asks about. The novel is
not the author’s confession; it is an investigation of
human life in the trap the world has become.
-Milan
Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of
Being
Grow old along with me, the best
is yet to be.
-John Lennon, Grow Old with
Me
Life
is what happens to you
while
you're busy making
other
plans.
-John Lennon, Beautiful Boy
So keep on playing those
mind games together
Doing the ritual dance in the
sun
Millions of mind guerrillas
Putting their soul
power to the karmic wheel
Keep on playing those mind
games forever
Raising the spirit of peace and love
-John Lennon, Mind
Games
I believe in everything
until it's disproved.So
I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists,
even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and
nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? Reality
leaves a lot to the imagination.
-John
Lennon
I've been baking bread and looking after the baby...Everyone
else who has asked me that question over the last few years says.
'But what else have you been doing?' To which I say, 'Are you
kidding?' Because bread and babies, as every housewife knows, is a
full-time job. After I made the loaves [of bread,] I felt like I had
conquered something. But as I watched the bread being eaten, I
thought, Well, Jesus, don't I get a gold record or knighted or
nothing?
-John Lennon
To realize the value of ten years:
Ask a newly divorced
couple.
To realize the value of four years:
Ask a
graduate.
To realize the value of one year:
Ask a student
who has failed a final exam.
To realize the value of nine
months:
Ask a mother who gave birth to a still born.
To
realize the value of one month:
Ask a mother who has given birth
to a premature
baby.
To realize the value of one
week:
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the
value of one hour:
Ask the lovers who are waiting to
meet.
To realize the value of one minute:
Ask a person who
has missed the train, bus or
plane.
To realize the value
of one-second:
Ask a person who has survived an
accident.
To realize the value of one millisecond:
Ask the
person who has won a silver medal in the
Olympics
Time
waits for no one.
Treasure every moment you have.
You will
treasure it even more when you can share
it with someone
special.
To realize the value of a friend:
Lose
one.
- author unknown
Dos monjes están meditando en medio de la naturaleza;
a
uno lo rodean muchos conejos,
al otro ninguno se le
acerca.
Este último pregunta:
"Si nosotros dos meditamos
con igual intensidad
el mismo número de horas cada día,
¿por
qué a ti te rodean los conejos y a mí no?"
"Muy simple", responde
el otro:
"Porque yo no como conejo y tú sí".
- cuento budista
| 
