Losing Ourselves Quotes

• El arte nos permite encontrarnos y perdernos al mismo tiempo.

  Thomas Merton

  Arte, Día de los Inocentes, Encontrarte a ti mismo

  Thomas Merton (2005). "No Man is an Island" (Ningún hombre es una isla), p.35, Shambhala Publications

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• Hasta que no estamos perdidos no empezamos a comprendernos a nosotros mismos.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sabiduría, viajes, carácter

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• Hasta que no nos perdamos a nosotros mismos no habrá esperanza de encontrarnos.

  Henry Miller

  Autocontrol, Conformismo, Sin Esperanza

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• ¿Por qué estamos tan llenos de restricciones? ¿Por qué no damos en todas direcciones? ¿Es miedo a perdernos? Hasta que no nos perdamos, no habrá esperanza de encontrarnos.

  Henry Miller

  Miedo, Inspiración, Dar

  Henry Miller (1972). "The Henry Miller reader", Ayer Co Pub

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• El principio del amor es la voluntad de dejar que los que amamos sean perfectamente
  ellos mismos.

  Thomas Merton

  Relación, Amor incondicional, Reflexión

  Thomas Merton (2005). "No Man is an Island" (Ningún hombre es una isla), p.177, Shambhala Publications

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• Solemos condenar el amor propio; pero lo que realmente queremos condenar es lo contrario al amor propio. Es esa mezcla de egoísmo y odio a uno mismo que nos persigue permanentemente, que nos impide amar a los demás y que nos prohíbe perdernos a nosotros mismos.

  Paul Valery

  Odio, Maldad, Yo

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• It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation & craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions, discoveries, insight, art. We are citizens, as Socrates would have said, & we have it available as our own.

  Paul Goodman

  Art, Discovery, Civilization

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• Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you see. Psychological realism is repulsive, because it allows us to escape unpalatable reality by taking shelter in the “luxuriousness” of personality, losing ourselves in the depth of individual character. The writer's task is to block this manoeuvre, to chase us off to a point from which we can view the horror with a dispassionate eye.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Fashion, Block, Character

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• We must protect ourselves from jihadis without losing ourselves.

  Rand Paul

  Losing, Protect

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• How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?

  Joshua Foer

  Short Life, Talking, Iphone

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• When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Trust, Sacrifice, Father Son

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). "Política familiar: amor y poder en una frontera íntima", McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

  Roberto Bolano

  Sea, Water, Way

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• Sometimes we can only find ourselves by first losing ourselves.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Firsts, Losing, Sometimes

  Richard Paul Evans (2014). “A Step of Faith: A Novel”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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