Adolfo Bioy Casares Quote

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

When the fuel is dried up in a vehicle, it stops driving automatically. You are a vehicle in the spiritual and the physical world, so you need some oil for alacrity, in order to get to your destinatio...

The chains that break you, are the chains that make you. And the chains that make you, are the chains you break.

It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them.

Do not feel surprise at being schooled amid toil: you are being schooled for a wondrous destiny.

Success is likened to a deep pit, you have to jump in to get it, then you'll need a ladder of grace to climb out to enjoy it.

As the sun shines I will make hayTo keep failure at bayFor there remaineth a payFor my honest toil each day.

The destiny of a man is determined by his daily action, God won't allow you go anywhere, if you don't make an attempt to move.

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

As a people we practiced excess. Excess in everything - pleasure, gaudy display, endless toil, and death. Vagrant children slept in the alleys. Ragpicking was a profession. A conspicuously self-satisf...