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1 " People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. "
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver , The Book of Ichigo Ichie: The Art of Making the Most of Every Moment, the Japanese Way
2 " Sakura is visible proof of how the most beautiful things in life are fleeting and can't be postponed. "
3 " Otro estudio conducido por la Universidad de Miami en 2010 demostró que, con el abrazo, los receptores de la piel envían una señal al nervio cerebral encargado de reducir la presión arterial. "
4 " Se considera que cuatro abrazos al día bastarían para favorecer la salud emocional y física de una persona, pero según Andy Stalman, experto en relaciones internacionales, lo idóneo serían ocho abrazos de seis segundos al día. Al parecer, esa es la duración mínima para que la oxitocina —la hormona de la felicidad— llegue al cerebro, despertando sentimientos de afecto y confianza. "
5 " The question to ask, as much to write a story as to write—or reinvent—the script of your life, is What if . . . ? "
6 " The moment is a jealous lover that demands we give it our all. Every unrepeatable moment is a small oasis of happiness. And many oases together make an ocean of happiness. "
7 " ikigai: discovering something we become passionate about and which also comes easily to us. "
8 " The Buddha summed it up with perhaps his most famous saying, “Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional "
9 " komorebi—the play of sunbeams filtering through tree branches, "
10 " «Nadie se baña dos veces en el mismo río, porque todo cambia, en el río y en quien se baña». "
11 " If you don't seize the moment, it will be lost forever. "
12 " Henry David Thoreau: “As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. "
13 " As Marcus Aurelius writes in his Meditations, the drama of existence is not death but never having begun to live. "
14 " «Si te las apañas para seguir vivo y con salud, a partir de los noventa años solo Dios sabe las capacidades que están al acecho dentro de ti». "
15 " Tras la caída de Ceaucescu, el doctor Cyrulnik trabajó con niños huérfanos de orfanatos de Rumanía que no habían recibido caricias durante los primeros diez meses de su vida. Un estudio neurológico de los pequeños demostró que tenían atrofiados los lóbulos prefrontales y la amígdala. "
16 " Even an elderly person can decide to wipe the slate clean and reinvent themselves, because they, too, have their whole life ahead of them. What matters isn’t how many more years we might live but what we will do with the time we have left. "
17 " Melchora Aquino de Ramos, a woman from the Philippines who was eighty-four when the unrest broke out that would lead to her country’s independence. Far from being intimidated, she used the shop she ran as a shelter for the wounded and persecuted, in addition to offering advice to the revolutionaries from those modest quarters where secret meetings were held. The old woman’s subversive activities came to the attention of the colonial authorities, who detained her and interrogated her about the identities of the revolutionary leaders. Melchora Aquino refused to give any information, and as a result she was deported to the Mariana Islands. When the United States took control of the Philippines, Melchora returned home as a national heroine and was named “Grand Woman of the Revolution.” She was actively involved in the creation of her new country for more than twenty years and died at the age of 107. "
18 " SATORI AND KENSHŌ Satori, which literally means “understanding,” is the word used in Zen to refer to a kind of awakening or enlightenment. Another term used in Japanese Buddhism to refer to a state of enlightenment is kenshō. The differences between kenshō and satori have been discussed extensively by various authors. According to Suzuki, kenshō is a momentary experience in which you see your own nature through a direct tunnel, while satori is a deeper and more lasting transformation. "
19 " If you don’t like reality, create another where you can live. "
20 " If you know how to create the right wrapping, the present will be your gift. "