"Del lat. breviarium 'epítome', 'inventario'. Libro de memoria o de apuntamiento."

En 2010 empecé a escribir en una libreta frases que me encontraba y quería conservar.
Decidí guardarlas sin autor@ para no juzgar su origen y darle valor únicamente al contenido.

Aquí comparto algunas de mis favoritas. Las primeras son en Inglés y más abajo otras en Español.

1. You have to decide who you trust, before you decide what to believe.


2. Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, small people talk about other people.


3. Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness, give me truth.


4. The voices of fear, both from without and within, can only be dispelled by trusting the voice that comes from the heart.


5. We are here on earth to help others. What the others are here for, I have no idea.


6. Any relationship needs two things to work: chemistry and timing.


7. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is for the strong ones.


8. Forgiveness is not something we do for others, it is a gift to ourselves.


9. Love is all.


10. Eternity is in love with the productions of time.


11. You can´t have understanding without facts: the more we remember, the better we are at processing the world.


12. Invention is a product of inventoring: creativity develops easier with good memory.


13. The only way to live longer, is by making life more meaningful.


14. To think is to think for yourself.


15. Genuine understanding comes from hands-on experience.


16. If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.


17. Home is wherever I'm with you.


18. A ship is safe in the harbour, but that's not what ships are built for.


19. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.


20. There is a time when panic is the appropriate response.


21. Tomorrow: a mystical land where 99% of all human productivity, motivation and achievement is stored.


22. If you can't fix it with duct tape or a martini, it ain't worth fixing.


23. The best way to get approval is not to need it. This is equally true in art and business. And love. And sex. And just about everything else worth having.


24. Be first, be smarter, or cheat.


25. You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.


26. The human soul needs something to hope for.


27. Beer is not the answer. Beer? is the question. Yes is the answer.


28. Listen, smile, agree. And then do whatever the fuck you were going to do anyways.


29. A morning of awkwardness is far better than a night of loneliness.


30. We accept the love we think we deserve.


31. The answer must be in the attempt.


32. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.


33. Be kind to people. And if that's too much to ask for, then just be weird to people.


34. Not all those who wander are lost.


35. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.


36. The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words.


37. Anybody can be cynical. Dare to be an optimist.


38. We're not like them, but just like you and me.


39. Tomorrow was created yesterday.


40. Takes one to know one.


41. If there's no enemy within, the enemy outside can do you no harm.


42. The best things in life aren't things.


43. Be cruel to me, because I'm a fool for you.


44. Travel makes one modest: you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.


45. It all works out in the end.


46. Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.


47. The universe is under no obligation to make sense to us.


48. We should write just to discover what we know.


49. It always seems impossible until it's done.


50. The things you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for a living.


51. Whenever you feel like a genius, remember there was a time when you were learning to not shit your pants.


52. There should be no boundary to human endeavour. However bad life may seem, while there is life, there is hope.


53. The first step is to establish that something is possible. Then probability will occur.


54. Our world is defined not by our most advanced technology, but by how inaccessible it is to most people.


55. Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.


56. The positive is the side effect of handling the negative.


57. You talk the talk, but do you walk the walk?


58. Success is stumbling from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.


59. If I'm just a molecule floating around an ocean I can't understand, I might as well just enjoy it.


60. Meanwhile nature is out there doing its thing. That we manage to catch a glimpse of its inner workings is nothing short of wonderful.


61. The stories we tell ourselves, whether they be false or true, are always real.


62. What you can imagine depends on what you know.


63. Obsessed is a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.


64. People's minds, once stretched by a new idea, never regain their original dimensions.


65. No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.


66. Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.


67. It's more important to fail at something that matters, than to succeed at something that doesn't.


68. Somewhere along the way, we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.


69. The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.


70. Until the fucking wheels come off.


71. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.


72. True nobility means being superior to your former self.


73. The things that are less important for our survival are the very things that make us human.


74. Never leave the scene of a good idea without taking action.


75. The purpose of life is a life with purpose.


76. Life is a collections of moments, the idea is to have as many good ones as possible.


77. You don't stop running because you get old. You get old because you stop running.


78. Elegance in objects is everybody's right. And it shouldn't cost more than ugliness.


79. The right shoe left. Knowing that the left shoe was right.


80. There is no wrong time to do the right thing.


81. Be yourself. Nobody's paying attention.


82. It's good to be happy. But it's so fucking hard.


83. We all pay for life with death. So everything in between should be free.


84. I didn't come this far to only come this far.


85. The whole point of dancing is to dance.


86. This too shall pass.


87. Time is but the measure of changing existence.


88. Everybody's got a plan, until they get hit.


89. Everything is simple. It's people who complicate things.


90. Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.


91. Figure out who you're going to be. The rest will follow.


92. What works good is better than what looks good.


93. We were created to create.


94. Enough has got to suffice.


95. Beware of the un-loved ones.


96. When the student is ready, the teacher appears.


97. That which has no substance, enters where there is no space.


98. Happiness are the blank pages of the story.


99. Very selfish of the universe: to put us through all this shit just so it can look at itself.


100. We have not been given the lead in the cosmic drama.


101. Forgetting renews.


102. The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.


103. All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.


104. It might be that something is what nothing looks like from the inside.


105. Existence is a function of relationship: everything exists with everything else.


106. We are mostly restlessness and empty space.


107. Be productive early. Don't fuck around all day.


108. Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position, but certainty is an absurd one.


109. The struggle is where the rewards live.


110. The belonging you seek is not behind you, it is ahead.


111. Solitude is the path over which destiny endeavours to lead man to himself.


112. If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.


113. Each idea we might have is but an inevitability of all other previous human ideas.


114. True voyage is return.


115. To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.


116. We are what we repeatedly do.


117. When ideas can go to battle against each other, people don't have to.


118. Happily, humans will never live in a world of their own making.


119. The lion and the tiger might be the strongest ones. But there are no wolves in the circus.


120. The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act.


121. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.


122. Don't fear moving slowly, fear standing still.


123. Relaxing is a responsibility.


124. New technology is everything that doesn't work yet.


125. Visible technology is noise.


126. Life is an end in itself.


127. Of course life has no point. If it had, man would not be free.


128. We live constantly with the weight between the banal and the utterly devastating.


129. There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.


130. Life is mostly long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement.


131. Feelings are just visitors. Let them come and go.


132. There are only so many things humans can say, and therefore they've all been said already.


133. Don't believe everything you think.


134. Freedom requires hard work and responsibility.


135. Understanding makes the mind lazy.


136. Beware of unearned wisdom.


137. Nothingness is filled with everything. Including all of our secrets.


138. If you work hard enough, you can replace depression with exhaustion.


139. The idea is to die young as late as possible.


140. And of course, tomorrow never comes.


141. Not wanting something is as good as having it.


142. None of us can choose what our ideas imply.


143. History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.


144. We are the universe looking at itself.


145. Life should be an adventure where permanent discoveries turn us into complete beings.


146. Life improves the system capacity to sustain life.


147. It's more important to make your children proud than your parents proud.


148. Your path is about discovering a truth that is a higher synthesis of what your parents believed.


149. The modern man thinks that everything's ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.


150. Life creates conditions conductive to life.


151. Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.


152. Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.


153. Do you consider yourself optimistic? Well the alternative sucks.


154. When you point your finger at someone, you are pointing three fingers at yourself.


155. The real world won't entertain us, we must create entertainment from it.


156. Why should we worry how the universe works? We don't have to run it anyhow.


157. The sovereignty of nature has been allotted to the silent forces.


158. The intellect is but a name we give to a series of individual ideas.


159. The best revenge is being happy.


160. The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.


161. Success is the side effect of handling failure.


162. The reason to finish is to start something new.


163. Where your fear is, there is your task.


164. A calm life is actually disquieting, because we are unaware of whether we would remain strong in case of a tempest.


165. Nothing is worth loosing your enthusiasm.


166. Nothing happens in contradiction to nature, only to what we think we know of it.


167. Everything that happens is just a link in a great chain of happenings.


168. Everything you do today is for the future.


169. Be conservative in what you do. Be liberal in what you accept from others.


170. Time is the best filter. Value what has endured.


171. Don't let your ambitions weaken your foundations.


172. More is not just more, it is sometimes other than less.


173. Any relationship is under the control of the person who cares the least.


174. Bad things happen quickly. Good things take time and effort.


175. Planning is essential, but plans are useless.


176. Be strong for others.


177. Value yourself higher, then rise to fit this valuation.


178. Ideas are worth almost nothing, execution is everything.


179. Say no to more stuff, say yes to more choices.


180. Chaos is another form of organization.


181. What makes any choice great is your commitment to it.


182. The greatest achievements are squeezed into existence by deadlines.


183. We cannot do without reality, but we cannot do without illusion.


184. To be human, then, is both to have ideals and to fail to live up to them.


185. We exist to materialize the ideas residing in the unmanifested universe.


186. We possess the fears of mortals and the desires of immortals.


187. Making complex things work is very improbable. Make things simple.


188. Influencing how we imagine the world should become the focus of our endeavours.


189. Nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.


190. Quitting is not dishonorable. Quitting when you believe you can still succeed is.


191. It is fear that rules us. Love and respect and other such feelings just make it bearable.


192. We must find the freedom from the predilections implanted by heredity, environment and experience.


193. Time vanishes when its origin is sought for.


194. Whatever is known in any way, is known ultimately as a thought.


195. We see objects in space separately, and therefore successively.


196. Be impatient with actions but patient with results.


197. Our task is to become conscious of the contents that press upwards from the unconscious.


198. Sometimes is someone instead of something.


199. Be careful what you wish for. Not because you'll get it, but because you'll become the thing that can get it.


200. We will either find a way, or make one.


201. I go to sleep confident that I will remember you tomorrow.


202. There is an unseen order, and our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.


203. His flaws are fractal, even his flaws have flaws.


204. We become what we do: it is our behavior that determines the contents of our mind.


205. Because change is an uncomfortable choice, people try anything to get change without change.


206. Feelings follow behavior.


207. Be weird. Unapologetically weird.


208. I am just a character in the story. And the story fucking sucks.


209. We live ourselves into new ways of thinking.


210. We need to realize that it is possible to be happy and have hope in an imperfect and uncertain world.


211. Stress happens when something wants to be in two places at the same time.


212. I never wanted a lot of things. And yet here you are, an entire world just for me.


213. The most likely way for the world to be destroyed is by accident.


214. Love is the painful recognition that someone other than yourself is real.


215. We forget the path to the knowledge, not the knowledge itself. That's why we remember and not relearn.


216. Everything that is worthwhile is recondite, unobservable and hard to come at.


217. The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble.


218. Don't talk, unless you can improve upon the silence.


219. Conflict with will creates resolution, a movement beyond the dilemma.


220. Comfort makes cowards of us all.


221. Being right is nothing but grief.


222. By balancing your life you postpone nothing: you can die happy at any time.


223. Be grateful for the mere absence of catastrophe.


224. The easiest way to change your mood is to change your environment.


225. What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.


226. Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it.


227. The intent to communicate honestly is the measure of truthfulness.


228. It is in believing one thing while intending to communicate another that every lie is born.


229. Inspiration is perishable. Take action.


230. Mind is awareness in motion; awareness is mind at rest.


231. Unhappiness is the veiling of happiness.


232. What got you here won't get you there.


233. Novel memories stretch the feeling of time because they recruit more areas of our brain.


234. I was born with an enormous need for affection and a terrible need to give it.


235. There isn't anything more rewarding than trying to do things right, and there's nothing more adventurous than telling the truth.


236. Pain is an adhesive.


237. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.


238. Don't label yourself. This gives you freedom to adapt and change.


239. Aim for less but better.


240. Honesty is an engine of simplicity.


241. Today, well lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.


242. Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.


243. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts.


244. Our thoughts control our feelings. Our feelings control our actions.


245. When thought is no more, the passage of time is no more either.


246. Without the language to describe something, we cannot understand it.


247. Life is paradox, not contradiction.


248. Life really does begin at forty. Up until then you are just doing research.


249. When we allow things to be as they are, things allow us to be as we are.


250. All suffering is caused by wanting what is not present.


251. All good things are wild and free.


252. El deterioro del cuerpo es nuestra fe de vida.


253. La verdad no lo parece solo porque lo sea, sino por cómo se diga.


254. Mujeres y hombres hay, lo que faltan son amores.


255. Hay que escribir solo para celebrar el hecho de poder hacerlo.


256. Cuando sientes no sabes, y cuando sabes ya dejaste de sentir.


257. No hay crudo que no sea humilde.


258. La vida es una mierda, pero hay suficiente para todos.


259. La opción siempre es matar al caballo.


260. A buen hambre no hay pan duro.


261. Quién tuviera tiempo y estómago para decir la verdad.


262. No hay cosas urgentes, sólo pendejos con prisa.


263. Más vale una débil tinta, que una fuerte memoria.


264. Cuando te toca, aunque te quites; y cuando no te toca, aunque te pongas.


265. Para quererse y para pelearse se necesitan dos.


266. Lo que no mata, engorda.


267. No voy a andar sudando calenturas que no son mías.


268. Yo no hago faenas con sombreros ajenos.


269. A falta de cariño, hay que buscar el calor.


270. La confianza y la virginidad se pierden una sola vez en la vida.


271. Jamás es excusable ser malvado, pero hay cierto mérito en saber que uno lo es.


272. Lo opuesto al amor es la indiferencia.


273. A palabras necias, oídos sordos.


274. No está el horno para bollos.


275. Éramos muchos y parió la abuela.


276. Me va a salir más caro el caldo que las albóndigas.


277. Su problema es que tiene un chingo de nada que hacer.


278. Las costumbres son formas concretas del ritmo, son la cuota de ritmo que nos ayuda a vivir.


279. Pico de cera, que el pez por la boca muere.


280. Las palabras son amor.


281. Mientras más grasoso, más sabroso.


282. El que por necesidad juega, por obligación pierde.


283. ¿La bebes o la derramas?


284. Mal empieza la semana al que ahorcan en lunes.


285. No hay que comer donde cagas.


286. Hay que darle un tiempecito pa que agarre sangre el piojo.


287. Niégalo todo aunque te estén viendo.


288. No hay que dar paso sin huarache.


289. Quien no se mueve no sentirá sus cadenas.


290. Si no me muevo no me ven.


291. Te haces guey porque sabes que la cara te ayuda.


292. No hay inocentes, solo distintos grados de responsabilidad.


293. A buen fin no hay mal principio.


294. Es de sabios cambiar de opinión.


295. Enamorarse es grave. No lo digo yo, lo dice la ortografía.


296. Dios no castiga dos veces.


297. Un suspiro es el aire que te sobra de la persona que te falta.


298. Chango viejo no aprende maroma nueva.


299. El futuro no me inquieta, lo que es duro a veces es el presente.


300. La felicidad requiere de la desdicha para equilibrarse, para volverse humana.


301. El que pega primero pega dos veces.


302. Dar felicidad es merecerla.


303. No hay santo sin pasado ni pecador sin futuro.


304. Nunca lo he hecho, ni lo pienso volver a hacer.


305. Ríe y el mundo reirá contigo. Llora y llorarás solo.


306. El no ya lo tienes.


307. Más vale pedir perdón que pedir permiso.


308. A palabras de borracho, oídos de cantinero.


309. No eres estúpido, sólo tienes mala suerte cuando piensas.


310. El que mucho abarca, poco aprieta.


311. El ave no es del nido en el que nace, sino del cielo en el que vuela.


312. El amor es simple, y a las cosas simples las devora el tiempo.


313. No es que muera de amor. Muero de ti.


314. El que no chilla no mama.


315. El movimiento es vida.


316. Donde manda capitán no gobierna marinero.


317. He tenido diarreas más sólidas que tus argumentos.


318. La verdad no tiene temperatura.


319. Así es la cosa, entre dos aleteos, sin más explicación, transcurre el viaje.


320. Escribir es una forma de darle más vida a nuestra vida.


321. Lo único que se necesita para morir, es estar vivos.


322. No eres lo que tienes, sólo eres lo que das.


323. Soy una persona tranquila, la inquieta es mi mente.


324. Hay dos cosas difíciles de ocultar: estar borracho y estar enamorado.


325. El lugar más peligroso para observar al mundo es detrás de un escritorio.


326. La pérdida no es más que cambio. Y el cambio es un placer de la naturaleza.


327. Sólo la casualidad nos habla.


328. Nadie nos advirtió que extrañar es el costo que tienen los buenos momentos.


329. El que merece, no pide.


330. La coherencia con nuestros sueños aumenta la felicidad del universo.


331. Crecer duele.


332. La vida es una sucesión de incertidumbres.


333. En la medida en que las personas viven para la creación, cesan de desear interferirse en la vida de los otros.


334. Pudiera ser que una felicidad demasiado completa marchitase los impulsos de conocer y de reformar.


335. Los deseos buenos, serán aquellos capaces de conciliarse con el mayor número posible de otros deseos.


336. Si te da miedo, hazlo con miedo.


337. Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido.


338. Estar enamorado es creer, por encima de todo, que estar enamorado es posible.


339. Las historias de dos, no las puede arreglar uno solo.


340. La vida es como un cumpleaños que no sale bien.


341. Desde que el mundo es mundo, empezó a dejar de serlo, a terminarse.


342. Estar con uno mismo no es estar solo, es estar con todo lo demás.


343. No hay nada peor que una conversación donde uno no entiende lo que el otro no le dice.


344. El origen de las cosas las define.


345. Ve deshaciendo tu cuerpo poco a poco, para que menos muera cuando mueras.


346. La vida de los muertos está en la memoria de los vivos.


347. La felicidad es no insistir.


348. Difícil es luchar contra el deseo. Lo que quiere lo compra con el alma.


349. La distancia nos obliga a tomarnos las manos a través de las palabras.


350. Crecer es aprender a agradecer.


351. En el camino, creemos que sabemos lo que buscamos. A veces, parece que sabemos lo que queremos.


352. Deberías escucharme hablar de ti para que entiendas todo.


353. Las relaciones se construyen con momentos invisibles para el otro.


354. Una cosa es que le gustes, y otra muy distinta que le intereses.


355. No importa el tamaño del perro en la pelea, sino el tamaño de la pelea dentro del perro.


356. Quien encuentra, hace rato que está buscando. Aunque no lo sepa.


357. El amor es un juego que siempre vamos a perder. Pero igual hay que jugarlo.


358. Los años que tienes, en realidad son los años que ya no tienes.


359. Es tiempo de entender más, para que temamos menos.


360. Hay que tomar lo que hay, cuando hay.


361. Aunque nada cambie, si yo cambio, todo cambia.


362. Nada es para tanto y nada es para siempre.


363. No fuimos ni somos ni seremos. Porque para ser hay que estar, y no quisimos ni ser, ni estar, ni querer.


364. Ni el aire de tus pulmones te pertenece más de tres segundos.


365. Ser, nunca es poquito.


366. Cuando la gente grita es que todo es posible todavía.


367. Lo importante te amenaza siempre a dos, a tres centímetros.


368. La felicidad nunca tiene grandeza.


369. Los ojos son para aceptar. No saben cómo hacer para oponerse.


370. Para recordarte feliz voy a tener que olvidarte.


371. Lo que definitivamente no soporto es cuando va y me entiende.


372. Contéstale que si porque de todas maneras te vas a arrepentir toda la vida si le contestas que no.


373. Mientras los diarios sigan abriendo con noticias negativas es que la cosa va bien. Porque lo noticiable es la excepción.


374. No entiendo la vida, pero sigo aquí porque me gusta comer.


375. No hay ideas originales. Cualquier idea es la suma inevitable de todas las ideas que existieron en el pasado.


376. Los planes deben tomar en cuenta que todo va a cambiar.


377. Somos la naturaleza creando nuevas formas.


378. Toma la decisión de irte en un buen día. No cuando la estés pasando mal.


379. Amar es dar lo que no se tiene a quien no es.


380. Acá todo podía suceder. Allá ya había sucedido casi todo. Como si la porción del azar ya se hubiera agotado.


381. La cercanía causa conflicto.


382. Nada tiene que ser difícil. Las cosas se complican cuando buscamos algo que no hay.


383. El amor es confiar en la casualidad. En la idea de que el mundo puede experimentarse desde el punto de vista de la diferencia.


384. Así se fija el azar: la absoluta contingencia del encuentro de alguien a quien yo no conocía termina tomando la apariencia de un destino.