Dobbiamo rimettere tutto in discussione, dalla religione alle leggi, dalla scienza agli usi e costumi.
I can’t criticize mothers’ obsessive love because that’s probably the only reason why species have survived, from bats to technocrats. Nor.
The Poet’s funeral had turned into the symbolic burial of freedom.
The Isabel Allende Foundation.
With age, you acquire a certain humility, Alexander. The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything. At your age, you can afford to commit the sin of arrogance, and it doesn’t matter much if you look ridiculous,” his grandmother lectured.
John Lennon said that life is what happens when we are busy making other plans.
Then borrow it, that’s what banks are for. Why should we risk our own money if we can use someone else’s?” Paulina replied, as she always did in such cases.
The truth is that men control political and economic power – they make the laws and apply them at their convenience –.
Suggestion works miracles.
My excesses are different but, like Julia, I will not give them up. My mother used to say that the only regrets in our old age are the sins we didn’t commit and the things we didn’t buy.
My erotic passion is quieter now, and maybe someday it will disappear altogether; I have heard that happens with age. I don’t want to think about that possibility right now. If it happens, I hope that passion can be replaced by humor, tenderness, and camaraderie, as some of my older friends who have partners have said.
Superego is not the same as consciousness; the former punishes us and the latter guides us.
He thought that if the youngster had survive the shock, the hemorrhaging, and the journey to reach this station platform, he must really want to live; and so it would be a shame to surrender him to death now.
Love doesn’t grow like a wild plant, it needs a lot of care.
Advanced age is a distortion of a familiar reality, it changes the body as well as circumstances.
Years sneak by quickly, on tiptoe, scoffing, and suddenly they give us a fright in the mirror or smack us on the back. Every minute is precious and we can’t waste it on misunderstanding, impatience, jealousy, pettiness, or the other silly stuff that soils relationships. In truth this formula can be applied at any age because it’s always the case that our days are limited. If I had lived this.
Now that we live longer, we have a couple of decades ahead of us to redefine our goals and find meaning in the years to come. Jampolsky recommends letting go of grievances and negativity. More energy is needed to sustain ill feelings than to forgive. The key to contentment is forgiveness of others and of ourselves. Our last years can be the best if we opt for love instead of fear, he says. Love doesn’t grow like a wild plant, it needs a lot of care.
Question from a journalist to the Dalai Lama: Can you remember your past lives? Answer: At my age it’s hard to remember what happened yesterday.
Mi vida se hace al contarla y mi memoria se fija con la escritura;.
My mother used to say that the only regrets in our old age are the sins we didn’t commit and the things we didn’t buy.