7 Thoughts

1. If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Graham Greene

2. The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent. David Mamet

3. The day on which one starts out is not the time to start one's preparation. African proverb

4. A competent professional listens well, probes, asks questions, and thinks before he speaks. This is easy to say, but hard to do. Jeffrey G. Allen

5. Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the right to do the same. Voltaire

6. No child is ever spoiled by too much attention. It is the lack of attention that spoils. Bessie Blake

7. Happy is the man who has learned to hold the things of this world with a loose hand.

14 Thoughts (Ago. 24, 2011)

1. Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them. R. H. Tawney

2. Education should be as gradual as the moonrise, perceptible not in progress, but in result. Author unknown

3. A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. Pearl S. Buck

4. Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? Marcel Marceau

5. What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. Crowfoot

6. Your diligence and nurturing will protect and inspire many people in your lifetime. Acknowledge, and cherish, every single quality you have, and use it, and leverage it to the fullest. Make room daily for your own time and space, so that you are able to open your door generously to others. Teresa Heinz

7. Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements, and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end result of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay. Eric Hoffer

8. All clouds do not rain. Dutch proverb

9. Monotony is the awful reward of the careful. A. G. Buckham

10. Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. Theodore N. Vail

11. When you become a parent, you begin to become sympathetic to your own parents. We begin to understand how much we owe to them, how much we're shaped by their vision of the world. Philip Glass

12. You learn love by loving--by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done. Aldous Huxley

13. Thou hast only to follow the wall far enough and there will be a door in it. Marguerite de Angeli

14. If you really believe in the brotherhood of man, and you want to come into its fold, you've got to let everyone else in too. Oscar Hammerstein II

15 Thoughts (posted Ago.10, 2011)

1. Luck never gives; it only lends. Swedish proverb   

2. Generosity gives assistance rather than advice. Vauvenargues  

3. Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. A. W. Tozer

4. To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything. Joan Didion

5. We make our decisions, and then our decisions turn around and make us. R.W. Boreham

6. Neither gods nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your imperative duty to use every means, moral, intellectual, and physical, that promise success. Henry Highland Garnet

7. I believe that people will do what is right and good if they are given a chance and are convinced that what they are being asked to do will truly help others. Helen Boosalis

8. Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings. Bruce Catton

9. Accomplishment comes to those who say: "I can make it happen." Brian Cavanaugh

10. Everyone is born with a limited amount of time. Every moment we live--whether we're working, playing, complaining, or being thankful--is time that we've spent. Nothing is more valuable than the time we have left. Cynthia Kersey

11. Everybody needs one essential friend. William Glasser

12. The only way to get positive feelings about yourself is to take positive actions. Man does not live as he thinks, he thinks as he lives. Vaughan Quinn

13. The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. Nadine Gordimer

14. The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference. Bess Myerson

15. Without effort, even the greatest of ideas go nowhere. John Pearson

EL CAFE

El Café

Un grupo de profesionales, todos triunfadores en sus respectivas carreras, se juntó para visitar a su antiguo profesor.

Pronto la charla devino en quejas acerca del interminable ´stress´ que les producía el trabajo y la vida en general.

El profesor les ofreció café, fue a la cocina y pronto regresó con una cafetera grande y una selección de tazas de lo más ecléctica: de porcelana, plástico, vidrio, cristal -unas sencillas y baratas, otras decoradas, unas caras, otras realmente exquisitas... Tranquilamente les dijo que escogieran una taza y se sirvieran un poco del café recién preparado.

Cuando lo hubieron hecho, el viejo maestro se aclaró la garganta y con mucha calma y paciencia se dirigió al grupo:

´Se habrán dado cuenta de que todas las tazas que lucían bonitas se terminaron primero y quedaron pocas de las más sencillas y baratas; lo que es natural, ya que cada quien prefiere lo mejor para sí mismo.

Ésa es realmente la causa de muchos de sus problemas relativos al ´stress.´

Continuó:

´Les aseguro que la taza no le añadió calidad al café.

En verdad la taza solamente disfraza o reviste lo que bebemos. Lo que ustedes querían era el café, no la taza, pero instintivamente buscaron las mejores. Después se pusieron a mirar las tazas de los demás.

Ahora piensen en esto:

La vida es el café. Los trabajos, el dinero, la posición social, etc. son meras tazas, que le dan forma y soporte a la vida y el tipo de taza que tengamos no define ni cambia realmente la calidad de vida que llevemos.

A menudo, por concentrarnos sólo en la taza dejamos de disfrutar el café. ¡Disfruten su café!

La gente más feliz no es la que tiene lo mejor de todo sino la que hace lo mejor con lo que tiene; así pues, recuérdenlo:

* Vivan de manera sencilla.

* Tengan paz.

* Amen y actúen generosamente.

* Sean solidarios y solícitos

* Hablen con amabilidad.

El resto déjenselo a Dios. y recuerden que: la persona más rica no es la que tiene más sino la que necesita menos .

DISFRUTA TU CAFÉ!

La Piedra

‎​LA PIEDRA !

El distraído tropezó con ella.

El violento la uso para herir.

El emprendedor la uso para construir.

El campesino cansado, la uso para sentarse.

El niño la uso como juguete.

David la uso para matar a Goliat y Miguel Angel saco de ella una bella escultura.

En todos los casos, la diferencia no estuvo en la piedra sino en el hombre!.

No existe PIEDRA en tu camino que no puedas aprovechar para tu propio crecimiento.

Aprovecha  los obstáculos para aprender y engrandecer tu destino...

5 Pensamientos (posted July 25, 2011)

1. Know that a smile will rally many to thy cause, while a frown would drive all away. Edgar Cayce

2. To be of value, expressions of appreciation must be continually renewed. Sheree Parris Nudd

3. What we are in ourselves, and what we owe others, makes us a complete whole. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4. Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence. Henry Chester

5. I like familiarity. In me it does not breed contempt. Only more familiarity. Gertrude Stein

10 Pensamientos (posted July 22, 2011)

1. You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man. Seth Parker

2. Tedium is never a useful teaching tool. Earl Stevens

3. The beauty of memory is that it still sees beauty when beauty has faded. Paul Boese

4. Dignity is fighting weakness and winning. Lola Falana

5. Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life. Smiley Blanton

6. Don't find fault with what you don't understand. Author unknown 7. The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has. Frank Hamilton

8. Let us unite contemplation with action. In the harmony of the two lies the perfection of character. Alexander L. R. Foote

9. Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration. Louise Brooks

10. Discipline is remembering what you want. David Campbell

6 Pensamientos (posted July 21, 2011)

1. Half our fears are baseless; the other half discreditable. Christian Bovee

2. The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

3. Love ennobles us to maintain a steadfast commitment to the well-being of someone or some cause greater than our own petty ego. Yet there is no love without the courage to surrender to something more priceless than yourself. Cornel West

4. Learning is not worth a penny when courage and joy are lost along the way. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

5. Confidence can be the ability to recognize the right path for you even if it doesn't appear to be the most obvious route to quick success. Confidence can also be the instinct to sense opportunity that isn't apparent to others. Dayna Steele

6. Grasping for the future does provide hope for tomorrow. But the true richness in life can only be found in the simple pleasures of this day. Urbansolace

10 Pensamientos (posted July 20, 2011)

1. If love closes, the self contracts and hardens... Charles Horton Cooley

2. It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't. Martin Van Buren

3. Will you be the rock that redirects the course of the river? Claire Nuer

4. Nobody on this planet ever really chooses each other. I mean, it's all a question of quantum physics, molecular attraction, and timing. Ron Shelton Bull Durham

5. Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come. Chinese proverb 

6. If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions. Susanne K. Langer

7.  Appreciation is like an insurance policy. It has to be renewed every now and then. Dave McIntyre

8.  We must trust our soul's noncallings as well as its callings. Destiny seems to have very specific ideas about what each of us should be doing on the planet, and our greatest personal fulfillment always lies in those directions and none other. Dianne Skafte

9. Wise men understand that every day is a day of reckoning. John Gardner

10. What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight. William Safire

10 Pensamientos (posted July 19, 2011)

1. If love closes, the self contracts and hardens... Charles Horton Cooley

2. It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't. Martin Van Buren

3. Will you be the rock that redirects the course of the river? Claire Nuer

4. Nobody on this planet ever really chooses each other. I mean, it's all a question of quantum physics, molecular attraction, and timing. Ron Shelton Bull Durham

5. Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come. Chinese proverb 

6. If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions. Susanne K. Langer

7.  Appreciation is like an insurance policy. It has to be renewed every now and then. Dave McIntyre

8.  We must trust our soul's noncallings as well as its callings. Destiny seems to have very specific ideas about what each of us should be doing on the planet, and our greatest personal fulfillment always lies in those directions and none other. Dianne Skafte

9. Wise men understand that every day is a day of reckoning. John Gardner

10. What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight. William Safire

EEUU: Subir Techo de Deuda Gubernamental (posted July 18, 2011)

Subir Techo de Deuda Gubernamental Estadounidense (US Debt Ceiling)

Interesante artículo sobre una decisión clave para el gobierno de estados unidos, parecido a lo que nos pasa en Ecuador cuando nos endeudamos más de lo que podemos pagar, llega un momento cuando hay que tomar acciones drásticas para salir de la crisis. El debate en EEUU es sobre subir el techo de la deuda gubernamental que está llegando a su tope, pero para ello deben ponerse de acuerdo el partido de gobierno (demócratas) y la oposición (republicanos). Los primeros quieren subir los impuestos a los más pudientes y dejar de exonerarlos en algunas cosas, y los segundos quieren que el estado corte gastos y baje su tamaño considerablemente. 

Repito, parecido a lo que nos pasa en Ecuador, pero con otras dimensiones claro.

Para mí, aparte de las propuestas de los demócratas y republicanos, debería haber una restructuración completa del sistema financiero que fue el culpable de gran parte de la crisis, en donde el esquema fue privatizar las ganancias y socializar las pérdidas. En este momento lo más saludable es subir el techo, pero no sin antes establecer parámetros a cumplirse con las decisiones drásticas que comenté al principio.

Saquen sus propias conclusiones.

OAN 

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Debt ceiling: Why Sunday could be make-or-break day for 'grand bargain'

President Obama is pushing for a comprehensive deal to raise the debt ceiling and trim long-term deficits. But any big deal will require arm-twisting in Congress, and time is running out.

The White House and congressional leaders are looking to a new round of talks on Sunday to signal whether a grand bargain on raising the debt ceiling will come quickly – or at all.

The sense of urgency surrounding the Sunday talks is driven not only by an economic deadline, but increasingly by a political one, as well. The government is on track to run out of money by Aug. 2, and in order to meet that deadline, congressional leaders will need weeks to sell a comprehensive deal – which will likely include painful spending cuts or tax increases – to their respective parties.

“If we are going to have an agreement, we’d have it by Sunday,” said Sen. Lamar Alexander (R) of Tennessee after a briefing with House Speaker John Boehner and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday’s White House debt talks.
National debt ceiling 101: Is a crisis looming?
In a shift, President Obama this week played down rumors that the White House would have to settle for a short-term deal to avoid default on Aug. 2. Instead, he said there is a historic opportunity to restore confidence that the US can stem the tide of red ink and get its fiscal house in order.
So far, negotiators have avoided leaking specifics on the debt talks and are critical of news reports that claim, for example, that Social Security cuts are now on the table. But the White House and House and Senate leaders confirm that the talks are aiming at significant cuts – at least $4 trillion over a 10- to 12-year period – and are nearing endgame.
The push for a significant deal could give negotiators a boost in selling sacrifices to their respective party caucuses, White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters after Thursday’s White House meeting.
“You would not want to give on an issue that is hard for you as a Republican or Democrat if the reward is not significant,” he said. “And the reward here, for both parties, is the opportunity to significantly reduce the deficit, send the message that we're getting our fiscal house in order, and providing, therefore, the confidence in the American economy that will help us grow faster and create jobs faster.”
But the president says the price for a deal of that scope is a “balanced approach” to deficit reduction that includes painful cuts in discretionary spending (including defense spending), cuts in entitlement spending, and ending certain tax breaks. GOP leaders say that tax increases are off the table, Democrats are resisting entitlement cuts.
House minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D) of California told reporters after the meeting that she offers the White House “full cooperation” on a “grand bargain” on debt, but not at the expense of Medicare or Social Security.
“I also want to have full clarity about where House Democrats stand,” she said in a press briefing on Thursday. “We do not support cuts in benefits for Social Security and Medicare…. We are not going to balance the budget on the backs of America's seniors, women, and people with disabilities.”
Thursday’s White House meeting was the first announced negotiating session since GOP negotiators walked out of talks led by Vice Joe President Biden on June 23 after an impasse on raising taxes.
Republican leaders have said that tax increases are off the table, but there is a break in GOP ranks over whether ending tax loopholes, also known as tax spending, could be used for debt reduction.
In the latest such move, Sen. John Thune (R) of South Dakota joined Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota on Thursday in sponsoring a bipartisan deal to cut $6 billion in annual tax breaks for ethanol. The deal would run afoul of some conservative groups that want to shink the size of government, because it would not balance that move with tax cuts, meaning the money would go into federal coffers.
The deal, however, provides that some two-thirds of the savings in the current fiscal year – $1.33 billion if the credit expires on July 31 – would go to debt relief and the balance to extend tax credits for ethanol pipelines.
Democrats see unpopular tax breaks as an opening to break GOP opposition to including taxes in a debt deal. For several weeks, they have taken to the Senate floor to call on Republicans to cut other tax loopholes and use the savings to offset the deficit. These include a $2.2 billion tax break for hedge-fund managers, a $300 million tax break for corporate jet owners, and $10.5 billion in tax breaks for the oil and gas industry.
Most Republicans have signed a pledge sponsored by Americans for Tax Reform that provides that any cuts in tax breaks must be offset by other tax cuts to ensure that the outcome on balance is revenue neutral – and hence can't be used to increase the size of government.
Sen. Mike Lee (R) of Utah, a member of the Senate tea party caucus, says that he supports that principle, but sees “ways of raising revenue without increasing taxes.” These include closing loopholes so Congress can lower marginal corporate tax rates, stimulate growth, and, eventually increase government revenue.
But the offsets don't necessarily need to come at the same time as the cuts in tax breaks.
It’s a hot topic for GOP leaders responsible for negotiating a final deal.
“We all understand it’s a tough spot for [Speaker Boehner] to be in,” says Senator Alexander. "Republicans control the House, but we have a Democratic president and a Democratic Senate, so any agreement he makes is not going to be something we are entirely happy with.”
“The debt is an economic catastrophe. I hope they swing for the fences and get a result. It has to be as close to Republican principles as possible for me to support it,” he adds.

 

Grecia podría no ser salvada a largo plazo (posted July 18, 2011)

Grecia podría no ser salvada, si Italia y España le siguen podría irse toda la UE

Existen dos solutiones viables a mediano plazo, o hacen una unión fiscal (q sería sumamente complicada), o se quiebra la unión europea como está concebida hoy en día. Grecia va a ser "default" tarde o temprano y puede contagiar a España e Italia (Italia siendo la 7ma economía mundial), las repercusiones son catastróficas. Las medidas tomadas ahora de inyección de capital servirán para paliar la crisis, pero no durarán mucho tiempo porque Grecia no tiene cómo pagar la deuda.
El escenario de economía mundial es malo, incluso EEUU como comentaba en algún chat puede caer en moratoria si no sube su techo de deuda y el tiempo se le acaba para llegar a un acuerdo en el congreso y subirla. Pero antes de hacerlo debería tener reformas radicales y profundas para cortar el presupuesto del estado, y para generar nuevos ingresos.

OAN

15 Pensamientos (posted July 12, 2011)

1. Keep the other person's well-being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on. Betty White

2. Learn to do what ought to be done, when it should be done, whether you like it or not. Roy W. Haley

3. If you can touch people's hearts, you can make change. Kris Kristofferson

4. Struggle is a form of education. Melvin Chapman

5. Only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole, can persevere to the end. Ding Ling

6. Each person born into this world has a right to everything he needs. His right, however, is bound up with that of every other creature and gives him no license to grab everything he can without allowing a share for others. Linda Hogan

7. Choose to be a love-finder rather than a fault-finder. Gerald Jampolsky

8. Goals too clearly defined can become blinders. Mary Catherine Bateson

9. Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic, criteria. Robert Maynard Hutchins

10. Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do. David Wilkerson

11. There's nothing more intoxicating than doing big, bold, things. Jason Kilar

12. Better to eat bread in peace than cake amidst turmoil. Slovakian proverb

13. We inherit our relatives and our features and may not escape them; but we can select our clothing and our friends, and let us be careful that both fit us. Volney Streamer

14. What works best is delegating authority, learning you cannot do everything and some people can do it better. Willi Smith

15. Sometimes in the winds of change we find our true direction. Author unknown

12 Pensamientos (posted June 10, 2011)

1. Enter each day with the expectation that the happenings of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed to you personally. Expect omens, epiphanies, casual blessings, and teachers who unknowingly speak to your condition. Sam Keen

2. We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

3. Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. Karl Kraus

4. You haven't learned life's lesson very well if you haven't noticed that you can give the tone or color, or decide the reaction you want of people in advance. It's unbelievably simple. If you want them to take an interest in you, take an interest in them first. & People will treat you as you treat them. Winston Churchill

5. I have learned that a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange or payment. Frances Farmer

6. Those who lose dreaming are lost. Aboriginal proverb

7. A different world cannot be built by indifferent people. Peter Marshall

8. Every try will not succeed. If you live, your business is trying. John O. Killens

9. You will never taste sweetness if you do not like bitterness. Estonian proverb

10. Hope has never trickled down. It has always sprung up. Studs Terkel

11. Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible. Giovanni Giacomo Casanova

12. If you see a fault in others, think of two of your own, and do not add a third one by your hasty judgment. Author unknown

El Amor (posted June 9, 2011)

El amor no muere por causas naturales.

Muere por negligencia y abandono.

Muere por ceguera e indiferencia y porque se lo da por sentado.

Las omisiones son generalmente más graves que los errores cometidos.

El amor muere de cansancio, porque no se lo alimenta.

No dejamos de amar así porque sí, del mismo modo en que nos enamoramos porque sí.

Cuando el amor muere, es porque uno o ambos amantes lo descuidaron, no lo reaviviaron ni renovaron.

Como cualquier ser viviente, el amor requiere el esfuerzo de mantenerlo sano.

15 Pensamientos (posted May 24, 2011)

1.      The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. John Foster Dulles

2.      You don't have to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth to end up at the end of the golden rainbow. Dianne Wilkerson

3.       During my long life, I have learned one lesson: that the most important thing is to realize why one is alive--and I think it is not only to build bridges or tall buildings or make money, but to do something truly important, to do something for humanity. To bring joy, hope, to make life richer for the spirit because you have been alive, that is the most important thing. Arthur Rubinstein

4.       To have big success, you must have big dreams, and you must be willing to take a chance. Sumner M. Redstone

5.       To love life is to be whole in all one's parts; and to be whole in all one's parts is to be free and unafraid. Howard Thurman

6.      It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today. James Freeman Clarke

7.       You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can. Jimmy Carter

8.      Make the decision to serve wherever you go and to whomever you see. As long as you are serving, you will be receiving. The more you serve, the more confidence you will gain in the miraculous effects of this principle of life. Greg Anderson

9.      The hero of the future will be that individual with the great mission to overcome the mass feeling of alienation and self-inadequacy. He will recognize that this struggle starts not with his community, nor even with his principal organization, but rather it starts with himself. Eugene E. Jennings

10.  The more you can allow yourself to make mistakes, the better off you're going to be. That's what life is about. You're going to get thrown off, and you just need to get back on. Patrick Dempsey

11.   Before we can realize who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger. Thomas Merton

12.   Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. Foster C.

13.   Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away. Tom Clancy

14.   The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. Elbert Hubbard

15.  Between saying and doing there is a long road. Spanish proverb

10 Pensamientos (posted May 12, 2011)

1.    The power in which we must have faith if we would be well, is the creative and curative power which exists in every living thing. John Harvey Kellogg

2.    The first step in solving a problem is to tell someone about it. John Peter Flynn

3.    In a world that seems increasingly snarky and judgmental, be kind. Be kind to your friends, be kind to your family, be kind to yourselves. And remember, just as you are, everyone really is just doing the best they can. Katie Couric

4.    What we love, we shall grow to resemble. Bernard of Clairvaux

5.    Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment. Rene Dubos

6.    Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft. Pericles

7.    Credibility is about your past, your present, and also your future. If you have aspirations about getting promoted, you have to think forward five years and start projecting and presenting that persona. Karen Berg

8.    Be able to overcome the adversity and obstacles that will come along. You've got to get up one more time than you fall down. Homer Drew

9.       In our day, when a pitcher got into trouble in a game, instead of taking him out, our manager would leave him in and tell him to pitch his way out of trouble. Cy Young

10.   Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. Ludwig Wittgenstein

8 Pensamientos (posted May 10, 2011)

 

1.    No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. John Morley

Ningún hombre puede subir y salirse más allá de las limitaciones de su propia naturaleza. John Morley

2.    The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within--strength, courage, dignity. Ruby Dee

La clase de belleza que más quiero es la que es difícil de alcanzar, que viene de adentro de uno mismo – fortaleza, coraje, dignidad. Ruby Dee

3.    Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. Belva Davis

No temas por el espacio entre tus sueños y la realidad. Si lo puedes soñar, lo puedes hacer. Belva Davis

4.    Try to pursue excellence with no excuses. Bill Campbell

Trata de conseguir la excelencia sin excusas. Bill Campbell

5.    Never hesitate to ask for help. No one succeeds alone. Micheline Bouchard

Nunca dudes en pedir ayuda. Nadie tiene éxito sólo. Micheline Bouchard

6.    If you are not generous with a meager income, you will never be generous with abundance. Harold Nye

Si no eres generoso con un ingreso bajo, nunca serás generoso en abundancia. Harold Nye

7.    Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box. Italian proverb

Una vez que ha terminado el juego, el rey y el peón vuelven a la misma caja. Proverbio Italiano

8.    In every moment, the quality of your life is on the line. In each, you are either fully alive or relatively dead. Dan Millman

En cada momento, la calidad de tu vida está en juego. En cada uno, tú estás vivo completamente o relativamente muerto. Dan Millman