Urgentemente

"Urgentemente
É urgente o amor 
É urgente um barco no mar 

É urgente destruir certas palavras, 
ódio, solidão e crueldade, 
alguns lamentos, muitas espadas. 

É urgente inventar alegria, 
multiplicar os beijos, as searas, 
é urgente descobrir rosas e rios 
e manhãs claras. 

Cai o silêncio nos ombros e a luz 
impura, até doer. 
É urgente o amor, é urgente 
permanecer."


Eugénio de Andrade

Silence

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls."

Madre Teresa

The Aim of Life

“The aim of life is self-development. To realise one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked.”

Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray

Selfishness

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."

Oscar Wilde