Confidencias De Panamericana Quotes & Sayings

Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations. — Charles Dickens

Pity is when I'm feeling sorry for someone but I'm looking down on them, I'm patronizing them, feeling like I'm giving them a gift. Compassion and empathy is when I feel bad for them, but I'm on the same level. That I've felt what they are feeling too, that I have experienced pain and sorrow like they have. I am with them, not above them. Same goes for self-pity. — Stu Jenks

Lay down, please. Samuel's voice stroked my ears like a man seducing his lover after they'd suffered a long absence. — Kenya Wright

Always have class but always kick ass. — A.D. Posey

I don't necessarily think stories have functions any more than diamonds have functions, or the sky has a function ... Stories exist. They keep us sane, I think. We tell each other stories, we believe stories. I love watching the slow rise of the urban legend. They're the stories that we use to explain ourselves to ourselves. — Neil Gaiman

My grandkids say, "Reality Bites." O.K., but it also challenges and rewards ... I believe our best days are yet to come. — George H. W. Bush

To put it squarely, as I say in my memoir, the eternal triangle has come full circle. — Muriel Spark

To them, pain was a country they had heard of, maybe watched a show about on TV, but one whose stamp had not yet been made in their passports. — Janet Fitch

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable — Thomas Fowell Buxton

For the one who writes it . . . a story is like a mirror. — Sylvia Iparraguirre

I love Twinkies, and the reason I am saying that is because we are all supposed to think of reasons to live. — Stephen Chbosky

Peace-Freedom-Joy is your natural state of being. You get a glimpse of this self-content and peaceful state during deep sleep. When you want something that you already have, you lose awareness of what you already have. When you lose awareness of what you have, it is like not having it at all! So whenever we seek peace, we end up feeling worried; whenever we seek freedom and security, we end up feeling insecure; whenever we seek joy, we end up feeling depressed. — Yogi Kanna

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men. — Thomas Merton