Berenstain Bears

Today while planning my trip to Istanbul with my three American friends - Bridget, Hannah and Caryn, I had the most awesome "memories" moment... Hannah kind of quoted the Berenstain Bears - I was soooooo happy!!!! I flew right back to being 6 years old and living in NY...

I'm really grateful of having this group of friends that were children at the same time as myself and can remember these small things with me!

Brilliant!

"The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself." (Book II, Chapter 2)

From Dostoievski's The Brothers Karamazov

BACK FROM HOLIDAYS!

Los Justos

Un hombre que cultiva su jardin, como queria Voltaire
El que agradece que en la tierra haya musica.
El que descuebre con placer una etimologia.
Dos empleados que en un cafe del Sur juegan un silencioso ajedrez.
El ceramista que premedita un color y una forma.
El tipografo que compone bien esta pagina, que tal vez no le agrada.
Una mujer y un hombre que leen los tercetos finales de cierto canto.
El que acaricia un animal dormido.
El que justifica o quiere justificar un mal que le han hecho.
El que agradece que en la tierra haya Stevenson.
El que prefiere que los otros tengan razon.
Esas personas, que se ignoran, estan salvando el mundo.

por Jorge Luis Borges

Research Quotes IV

I have already died all deaths,
And I am going to die all deaths again,
Die the death of the wood in the tree,
Die the stone death in the mountain,
Earth death in the sand,
Leaf death in the crackling summer grass,
And the poor bloody human death.

Herman Hesse – All Deaths