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Charming people

  La verdadera nobleza del hombre procede de la virtud, no del nacimiento. -Epicteto-  Una enfermera muy agradable, a pesar de estar sobrecargada de trabajo, atendía con solicitud a un anciano casi moribundo, cuando vio entrar a un joven en la habitación, y entonces, instintivamente, dijo al enfermo: —Señor Juan, acaba de llegar su hijo. […]
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Francisco, can I?

  Holiness is not a privilege for some, but an obligation for all, "for you and for me". -In one place, the path followed by Francis of Assisi and Brother Leo crossed a road that the peasants of the mountain and the surrounding huts used to descend [...].
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Pledge and warranty

  GUARANTEE AND GUARANTEE Son, exterior cleanliness is a pledge and guarantee of interior cleanliness. -Friedrich Rückert- In a society like ours, with a certain propensity for the uncouth, the uneducated, the ordinary, the tawdry, the ill-mannered, it is understandable that there is a certain aversion to good taste, to good manners, to [...]
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God's sympathy

Después del amor, la simpatía es  la pasión divina del corazón humano. -Edmund Burke- Cuentan las crónicas del lugar que mandaron a cierta parroquia a un diácono para que echara una mano durante unos días. A nuestro protagonista todo le sonaba a nuevo y hubo un detalle que le llamó la atención desde el primer […]
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Window shopping

  No ores por una vida fácil, ruega por tener fuerza para soportar una difícil. -Bruce Lee-  Me contaba un buen amigo, Robert, la importancia que tenía para él la voluntad en la educación de sus hijos: ?De vez en cuando, pongo dinero en el bolsillo de mis hijos y los mando a mirar escaparates, […]
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Reaching 40 or more

  There is no proper age of old age. You are old when you begin to act like an old man. -The Swede Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007), considered by some to be the greatest director in the history of cinema, who lived 89 years, said that "growing old is like climbing a great mountain; while climbing the [...]
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Flight plan

  La mayoría de las personas fracasan por no haber concebido una idea clara de lo que quieren conseguir. -Walter W. Atkinson- Martí Gironell Gamero (1971) escritor y periodista catalán, cuenta en su libro Plan de vuelo una experiencia que tuvo lugar en el desierto de Arizona. Matt se reunió con otros 300 paracaidistas en […]
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The face you make

  The face is the mirror of the soul, and the eyes are its interpreters. -Marcus Tullius Cicero - It is said that, in a small and distant village, there was an abandoned house. One day, a little dog managed to squeeze through a hole in one of the doors of the house. The little dog slowly climbed up the old wooden stairs [...]
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Two by two

  Sad I can be alone; to be cheerful I need company. -Elbert Hubbard - Joy is that special element that gives texture and flavor to our daily lives. Joy is an expansive good, it needs to be shared with others. -Pepe, what happened to your ear? -I was ironing, the phone rang, I got confused and [...]
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Procrastination

Ignorance, lies and idleness can produce false sensations of balance and happiness. -José Luis Rodríguez Jiménez Everyone has habits. A habit is an acquired pattern of behavior that has been automated to such an extent that it is difficult to modify or eliminate. There are conscious and unconscious habits, good and bad, which are [...]
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