Vassago

2026-04-14T06:30:00.000+01:00

People are never satisfied.

If they have a little, they want more.

If they have a lot, they want still more.

Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little,

but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.

2026-04-13T06:30:00.000+01:00

...and there you have it,

another body on the floor

surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone

except to the one who can't take any of them along.

2026-04-12T15:04:00.002+01:00

We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe.

We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth.

But it doesn't work that way at all.

2026-04-12T14:57:13.436+01:00

Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure.

However, society always imposes on us a collective way of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that.

They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one.

Have you ever met anyone in your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not in the other

2026-04-12T11:34:05.188+01:00

In life, a person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. The builders might take years over their tasks, but one day, they finish what they're doing. Then they find that they're hemmed in by their own walls. Life loses its meaning when the building stops.

Then there are those who plant. They endure storms and all the vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener's constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure.

Gardeners always recognize each other, because they know that in the history of each plant lies the growth of the whole World.

2026-04-12T11:33:15.306+01:00

I must try to enjoy all the graces that God has given me today. Grace cannot be hoarded. There are no banks where it can be deposited to be used when I feel more at peace with myself. If I do not make full use of these blessings, I will lose them forever.

God knows that we are all artists of life. One day, he gives us a hammer with which to make sculptures, another day he gives us brushes and paints with which to make a picture, or paper and a pencil to write with. But you cannot make a painting with a hammer, or a sculpture with a paintbrush. Therefore, however difficult it may be, I must accept today's small blessings, even if they seem like curses because I am suffering and it's a beautiful day, the sun is shining

2026-04-12T06:30:00.000+01:00

I want to feel what it's like,

cause death is only going to happen to you once.

2026-04-11T09:07:18.952+01:00

confronted by temptation, we will always fall.

Given the right circumstances,

every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil

2026-04-11T08:30:00.001+01:00

I still get nightmares.

In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now.

I'm not.

No one ever really gets used to nightmares.

2026-04-10T06:30:00.001+01:00

there is only the present moment, the now.

You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.

'Time' doesn't pass.

human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present;

always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better,

about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didn't act as we should have.

Or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do tomorrow,

what precautions we should take, what dangers await us around the next corner,

how to avoid what we don't want

and how to get what we have always dreamed of.

2026-04-09T10:13:00.001+01:00

If you're only killing time then it will kill you right back

2026-04-09T10:12:08.909+01:00

Do something instead of killing time.

Because time is killing you.

2026-04-09T09:46:33.813+01:00

Listen to your heart.

It knows all things,

because it came from the Soul of the World

and it will one day return there

Pencil

2026-04-09T09:45:00.013+01:00

First quality:

you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps.

We call that hand God, and He always guides us according to His will.’

‘Second quality:

now and then, I have to stop writing and use a sharpener.

That makes the pencil suffer a little, but afterwards, he’s much sharper.

So you, too, must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make you a better person.

‘Third quality:

the pencil always allows us to use an eraser to rub out any mistakes.

This means that correcting something we did is not necessarily a bad thing; it helps to keep us on the road to justice.’

‘Fourth quality:

what really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside.

So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.’

‘Finally, the pencil’s fifth quality:

it always leaves a mark.

in just the same way, you should know that everything you do in life will leave a mark, so try to be conscious of that in your every action

2026-04-09T06:30:00.001+01:00

Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets,

the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?

2026-04-08T10:22:19.013+01:00

A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks:

“Aren’t you tired of waiting?”

“Yes,” answers the rose, “but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.

2026-04-08T06:30:00.002+01:00

The secret is here in the present.

If you pay attention to the present,

you can improve upon it.

And, if you improve on the present

, what comes later will also be better

2026-04-07T13:38:21.725+01:00

The Marquis De Sade said that the most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit

2026-04-07T12:12:12.367+01:00

The feelings we live through
in love and in loneliness
are simply, for us,
what high tide
and low tide are to the sea.

2026-04-07T11:54:26.737+01:00

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

And when you have reached the mountaintop,then you shall begin to climb.

And when the earth shall claim your limbs,then shall you truly dance

2026-04-07T11:30:01.108+01:00

The mirror reflects perfectly;

it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think.

To think is to make mistakes.

2026-04-07T11:20:42.516+01:00

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist

and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes

2026-04-07T10:02:00.011+01:00

Anyone who lives in their own world is crazy.

Like schizophrenics, psychopaths, maniacs.

people who are different from others.

On the other hand,

you have Einstein, saying that there was no time or space, just a combination of the two.

Or Columbus, insisting that on the other side of the world lay not an abyss but a continent.

Or Edmund Hillary, convinced that a man could reach the top of Everest.

Or the Beatles, who created an entirely different sort of music and dressed like people from another time.

Those people--

and thousands of others--

all lived in their own world.

2026-04-07T09:55:44.069+01:00

Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it

2026-04-07T09:55:15.805+01:00

Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them