One should always focus on writing a good letter and always

Life certainly points it out to you – ‘you can go this way or the other way.’ You have to decide and it’s a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you’re living in the best place, but you’re letting the place where you should live alone?

My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn’t necessarily exist in the package we assume he’ll come in.

Letting go of control, that’s actually when you’re safe.

Let go of what you think you need & what you really need will show up.

We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources.

Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of letting go. For there is neither freedom nor real life without an apprenticeship in letting go.

Learn from it and let it go

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us.

There is no sin , and there can be no sin on all the earth , which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God . Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?

Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people is shaped and driven forward by an entirely different kind of force, one which commands and coerces them and the origin of which is obscure and inexplicable despite the reality of its presence.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.

The world will be saved by beauty.

I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

From a hundred rabbits you can’t make a horse.

I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.

I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

Wealth is the number of things one can do without.

The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

Only through sufering can we find ourselves.

The secret of man’s being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

But I have to be sure

When I walk out that door

Oh how I want to be free

Jimi Hendrix is very important. He’s my idol. He sort of epitomizes, from his presentation on stage, the whole works of a rock star

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

What do I have in common with Jews? I don’t even have anything in common with myself.

Most men are not wicked… They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people

I don’t think that anybody has ever seen the real Frank Zappa because being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It’s two steps removed from the Inquisition

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.

One size does not fit all.

I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I’d never run out of nerve. Never

When you do what I do for a living you have to have a positive mental attitude; when that positive mental attitude isn’t enough to get you across that jump you have to be man enough to deal with the circumstances. In my case, I’m man enough.

I decided to fly through the air and live in the sunlight and enjoy life as much as I could

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Listen,” I told him. “Don’t be so tough so early in the morning. I’m sure you’ve cut plenty of people’s throats. I haven’t even had my coffee yet.

You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.

Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Write hard and clear about what hurts.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

There’s no one thing that’s true. It’s all true.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

To read is to let someone else work for you – the most delicate form of exploitation.

The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable.

To act is to anchor in the imminent future.

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one’s mind, or to define oneself – there is no wish I make more often.

He who hates himself is not humble.

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.

Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.

I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.

To live in any sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

How easy it is to be “deep”: all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one’s reach.

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.

How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

Education is what allows you to stand out

If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life — mine or that of my fellow man — is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?

Those who know don’t talk and those who talk don’t know.

Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed.

Humanity would never tolerate it

From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin and it was as if Juliek’s soul had become the bow. He was playing his life…He played that which he would never play again.

The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other.

I’ve been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.

I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?

If the only prayer you say throughout your life is “Thank You,” then that will be enough.

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

One person of integrity can make a difference.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that this world is full of misery, but the next world would be beautiful – or not, as the case may be – has forced on men the thought of fear where otherwise there might have been the happy abandon of nature.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

I do not believe that God ever created a man and then got so “put out” over the job that He damned him.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience.

Honeypie, I’m far too fly to be on standby Sending me straight to voicemail, sugar, what the hell?

Tell me what can I do to make it up to you? ‘Cause what we got’s too good to say goodbye

Tell me why, why can’t we try and start again? This can’t be how our story ends

Tryna live on more than what I got ‘Cause ’68 cents ain’t gonna pay the rent So I’ll be out here ’til they call the cops

All these roads steer me wrong But I still drive them all night long

Beat me ’til I’m numb Tell the devil I said “hey” when you get back to where you’re from

Out here with the moves like I invented smooth

Fellas grab your ladies if your lady fine Tell her she the one, she the one for life

We out here drippin’ in finesse It doesn’t make no sense

Yeah, know we’ll turn heads forever So tonight I’m gonna show you off

You’ll always have my shoulder when you cry I’ll never let go, never say goodbye

Why you mad, fix ya face, ain’t my fault y’all be jocking

When you smile The whole world stops and stares for a while ‘Cause girl, you’re amazing Just the way you are

When I compliment her, she won’t believe me And it’s so, it’s so Sad to think that she don’t see what I see

She’s so beautiful and I tell her every day

I know that you don’t know it But you’re fine, so fine

You’re everything I see in my dreams I wouldn’t say that to you if it wasn’t true

You should be smiling A girl as you should never look so blue

Yeah, you make me feel like I’ve been locked out of heaven For too long

In hopes, you’re on the other side talking to me, too Or am I a fool who sits alone talking to the moon?

When I was a little boy in school I had to dress up as a bunny and there’s a picture of me with an annoyed face, and when I saw it, I thought I should name myself ‘Bad Bunny

We’re making the music that the people are asking us for

In Puerto Rico, we dance to everything

Music belongs to the people

There are times that I like to be sad

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming

If you forget where you started, the safest thing on the road is to forget where you wanted to go

There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance

I have the space and liberty to create

I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too

To all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And it’s representing as much as any other genre at the worldwide level.

If tomorrow I want to release a rock album or I want to release a bachata album, nobody can tell me anything—why can’t I?

Some people are making music just for numbers and views