Favourite quotes

Quotes are usually something that speaks to everyone in one way or another. I have collected the quotes that I have read over the years and that speak to me in a profound manner. I try to live by some of these quotes, not always succeeding but always trying, because in the end that is all we do, to try.

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

— T.S. Eliot

You are never wrong to do the right thing.

— Mark Twain
The autobiography of Mark Twain

To leave a whisper of myself in the world, my ghost, a magna opera of words.

— Bernardine Evaristo
Girl, Woman, Other

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

— African proverb

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

— Erin Morgenstern
The night circus

Everyone wants the stars. Everyone wishes to grasp that which exists out of reach. To hold the extraordinary in their hands and keep the remarkable in their pockets.

— Erin Morgenstern
The starless sea

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We accept the love we think we deserve.

— Stephen Chbosky
The perks of being a Wallflower

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can’t find someone who doesn’t want to be found.

— Isabel Allende
The house of the spirits

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

— Isabel Allende
The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir

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Leonardo Ayala

I am physicist, turned chemist, turned teacher, turned data scientist, ... and I like to write, mainly about science, but also about many random facts that I find interesting.