Life Lessons Quote by José Saramago — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.”

“Somos cada vez mais, os defeitos que temos, não as qualidades”

“Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical stock phrases, also jocularly referred to as nuggets of wisdom, are a malignant plague, one of the very worst ever to ravage the earth.”

“a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned man replied: i'm not going anywhere. they're taking me by force.”

“… la muerte, por sí misma, sola, sin ninguna ayuda exterior, siempre ha matado mucho menos que el hombre.”

“Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.”

“Evaluate the patterns in your life. Are they leading you down a path of progress, or regression?”

“Success is not a magnet that can be pulled by any force. It is a result of your determination to pursue your purpose.”

“It is not what happens to us that matters the most. It is what we do with what happens to us that makes all the difference- Sarath Jayawardana, Uncharted Horizons: A Journey of Resilience”

“Forgiving someone who fooled you is one of the hardest things. Especially when it’s someone you truly respected. You keep fighting between anger and empathy between hurting them back and understanding that we all make mistakes. But forgiveness isn’t about them. It’s about freeing yourself. It’s a long, emotional loop where some days you will hate them and some days you will understand them.”

“There is such dissociation between what the eyes see and what the mind envisions. The final thought is just a matter of interpretation, coloured by our experiences.”