PHRASES

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Spanish

 

• "What turns life into a blessing is not to do what we like, but that we like what we do". GOETHE)

• "Educate children and it will not be necessary to punish men" (Pitágoras)

• "To arrive far it is necessary to go slowly" (Juan)

• "What happens with Life is the same as with jokes: the important thing is not how long they last but that they give us laughter" (Anthony de Mello).

• "Silence is the true language of souls" (Maeterlinck).

• "A little money alleviates anxiety, a lot causes it" (Confucius)

• "Where there is justice there is no poverty" (Confucius)

• "Acts are prayers without words.... Good acts contain all philosophies, all ideologies, all religions...." (Vicente Ferrer)

• "Good acts make us happy. Bad ones destroy us" (Vicente Ferrer).

• "Acts unite men. Ideologies usually separate them" (Vicente Ferrer).

• "The purpose of books is to inspire and to help man to understand and decipher his own heart". (Vicente Ferrer).

• "In this life there is no person, thing or event which is useless" (Vicente Ferrer).

• "God is the heart of the world" (Vicente Ferrer).

• "The important thing is to do good" (Vicente Ferrer).

• "Greed is to constantly live in poverty for fear of being poor" (San Bernardo).

• "He who really knows what he is talking about, has no reason to raise his voice". (Leonardo da Vinci).

• "He who knows the art of living with himself is never bored" (Erasmo de Rotterdam).

• "There is no king who has not had a slave as one of his ancestors, nor a slave that has not had a king amongst his" (Helen Keller)

• "Everything that it is not given, is lost" (indian proverb)

• "Balance your necessities with your wealth and you will not be poor nor rich, but simply lucky" (Quilón de Lacedemonia)

• "At the end of all our exploration we will end up where we started and we will see that place for the first time" (T.S.Eliot)

• "Love and do what you want to do" (Ruth Bermeo y San Agustín)

• "Love and friendship are the essence of life"

• "Joy lies not in things but in the deepest part of our soul" (Santa Teresa de Lisieux)

• "Looking for goodness in others we find it in ourselves" (PLATON)

• "Even though I know that tomorrow I am going to die, I would still plant an apple tree today" (MARTIN LUTERO)

• "True friendship is when silence between two people seems pleasant" (Erasmo de Rotterdam)

• "The man who has committed an error and does not correct it commits another greater error" (Confucius)

• "The greatest wisdom that exists is to know oneself" (Galileo Galilei)

• "... it is only possible to see well with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes". (The Little Prince, de Antonio de Saint-Exupéry).

• "A rose does not need to speak, it simply scatters its fragrance". (Gandhi)

• "Do not say everything you know, but always try to know what you say" (Matthias Claudius).

• "To be silent with friends is as important as to speak with them" (Henri Nouwen)

• "Men make mistakes; crazy people persist in error" (Cicerón)

• "It is hard when you fall, but it is worse still not to have tried to climb" (Teodore Roosevelt)

• "If you do not live as you think, you will end up thinking as you live"

• "The planet offers whatever man needs, but not whatever man craves" (Gandhi)

• "What little noise makes true miracles" (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

• "Man is rich when he becomes familiar with shortage". (Epicuro de Samos)

• "It is good to begin the day with a dose of tenderness and thus to perfume the day" (A. MAUROIS)

• "The friend is our safe accomplice who embraces a secret, who softens anguish, who advises on decisions, and mainly, who cheers and comforts" (Séneca).153.

• "The WAY OF SANTIAGO is a way towards one's inner self". (Eva)

• "Where a great love exists, always miracles take place" (Willa Cather)

• "There are many wonders in the world, but the masterpiece is the maternal heart" (BERSOT)

 

 

(This page was translated into English by Lynne. Thank you.)

 

Hola Amig@s...

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"Lo que convierte la vida en una bendición no es hacer lo que nos gusta, sino que nos guste lo que hacemos" (GOETHE)

"No me resigno a que, cuando yo muera, siga el mundo como si yo no hubiera vivido" (Pedro Arrupe)

"El verdadero mérito es como un río. Cuanto más profundo es, menos ruído hace" (E.F. Halifax)

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