Olalla Quotes & Sayings

Instruct gracefully.
Instruct graciously.
Instruct gallantly.
Instruct gladly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I awoke on the fifth morning with a brightness of anticipation that seemed to challenge fate. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I like to start slowly, and then ease up as the day progresses. — Fennel Hudson

Advise and you will feel superior. Serve and you will feel gratitude. — Julio Olalla

Seal the Deal, more than a traditional book, is a series of powerful coaching sessions dealing with a big breakdown that many excellent coaches and consultants face today: they don't know how to sell their services to organizations. Suzi Pomerantz not only knows, she can also coach us so we can learn that critical ability. — Julio Olalla

We need to make a very clear distinction between what is in our ego's self-interest and what is in our ultimate interest; it is from mistaking one for the other that all our suffering comes. — Sogyal Rinpoche

Never speak of marriage as an achievement. Find ways to make clear to her that marriage is not an achievement, nor is it what she should aspire to. A marriage can be happy or unhappy, but it is not an achievement. We condition girls to aspire to marriage and we do not condition boys to aspire to marriage, and so there is already a terrible imbalance at the start. The girls will grow up to be women preoccupied with marriage. The boys will grow up to be men who are not preoccupied with marriage. The women marry those men. The relationship is automatically uneven because the institution matters more to one than the other. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

As he came to the bank Ogion, waiting, reached out his hand and clasping the boy's arm whispered to him his true name: Ged. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers. — Julio Olalla

Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives. — Julio Olalla

A marvelous feeling
that you love someone deeply
and in turn, that person loves you back so sincerely. — David R. Wommack

The eyes that see the soul are different from the eyes that see the self. We see soul when we are in the mystery. We see self when we are in the events. The coach must have eyes for both. — Julio Olalla

Life is bigger than our explanations of it. To be in touch with life, go beyond your explanations. — Julio Olalla

The famed author Robert Lewis Stevenson declared that he'd trained his Brownies to be writers. As he slept, they would whisper fantastic plots in his ear
for example, the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and the diabolical Mr. Hyde, and that episode in "Olalla" when a young man from an old Spanish family bites his sister's hand. — Jorge Luis Borges