in my life i have learned…

“people travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.” st. augustine

“your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” rumi

“the imagination can transform all sorts of personal insanity into elements of self-invention, and you need to make use of this.” karl lagerfeld

“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.” anaïs nin

“love never dies a natural death. it dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. it dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. it dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.” anaïs nin

“everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.” vivekananda

“who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.” vivekananda

“la única fuerza y la única verdad que hay en esta vida es el amor.” jose marti

“in the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” albert camus

“fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.” coco chanel

“the dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.” givenchy

“comunque vadano le cose, devi avere pazienza”

“the happiness we desire and the suffering we shun are not random, but rather come about through causes and conditions.” dalai lama

“life can only be understood backward. It must be lived forward.” søren kierkegaard

“love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.” victor hugo

“give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world.” bette midler

“there ought to be something special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no boundary?” stephen hawking

“he who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself doesn’t become a monster & when you gaze into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.” nietzsche

“each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.” rene descartes

“life is a grindstone. whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.” thomas l. holdcroft

“anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” søren kierkegaard

“conflict cannot survive without your participation.” wayne dyer

“never apologize for showing feeling. when you do so, you apologize for truth.” benjamin disraeli