Maravilla Condos Quotes & Sayings

In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard. — Warren Buffett

I had always thought one could not be truly lost if one knew one's own heart. — Cassandra Clare

There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past. — Carlos Fuentes

A ludicrous boyish hope flared that someone would come to help him, and, carefully, he extinguished it. — C.S. Pacat

Alone, with tremendous empty longing and dread. The whole room for my thoughts. Nothing but myself and what I think, what I fear. Could think the most fanastic thoughts, could dance, grimace, curse, wail-nobody would ever know, nobody would ever hear. The thought of such absolute privacy is enough to drive me mad. It's like a clean birth. Everything cut away. Separate, naked, alone. Bliss and agony simultaneously. Time on your hands. Each second weighing on you like a mountain. You drown in it. Deserts, seas, lakes, oceans. Time beating away like a meat ax. Nothingness. The world. The me and the not-me. Oomaharumooma. Everything has to have a name. Everything has to be learned, tested, experencied. — Henry Miller

The secret of success is to try always to improve yourself no matter where you are or what your position. Learn all you can. Don't see how little you can do, but how much you can do. — William Walker Atkinson

Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot. — Charles R. Swindoll

My first life fled without a fight and left nothing behind, so I doubt it was a loss worth mourning. A man I don't remember mixed genes with a woman I can't recall, and I was called to the stage. I stumbled through the curtain, squinting into the blinding light of the birth canal, and after a brief and banal performance, I died.
This is the arc of the average life - unexamined, unremarked, unremarkable - and it should have ended there. In simpler times, life was a one-act play, and when it was over we took our bows and caught our roses and enjoyed any applause we earned, then the spotlight faded and we shuffled backstage to nibble crackers in the greenroom of eternity. — Isaac Marion

I know," she said. "She could. She was really irritating like that." "Very," he agreed. There was a thoughtful sadness about him- one that seemed very familiar. "I guess she did know what she was doing a little," she said. "I got an uncle out of it, at least." Richard stopped pushing his folder and looked up. "Yeah." He smiled. "It's nice to have a niece, too. — Maureen Johnson

We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu