Citas de William Braxton Irvine

• Al contemplar la impermanencia de todo lo que hay en el mundo, nos vemos obligados a reconocer que cada vez que hacemos algo podría ser la última vez que lo hacemos, y este reconocimiento puede investir las cosas que hacemos de un significado y una intensidad que de otro modo estarían ausentes. Ya no caminaremos sonámbulos por la vida.

  William Braxton Irvine

  Life, Time, Lasts

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• At spare moments in the day, make it a point to contemplate the loss of whatever you value in life. Engaging in such contemplation can produce a dramatic transformation in your outlook on life. It can make you realize, if only for a time, how lucky you are - how much you have to be thankful for, almost regardless of your circumstances.

  William Braxton Irvine

  Gratitude, Loss, Being Thankful

  "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy". Book by William Braxton Irvine, October 7, 2008.

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• You are currently experiencing desire; otherwise, you wouldn't be reading these words. Even if you are reading them at the behest of someone else, you are motivated by your desire to please that person. And if you stop reading, you will not do so because you have stopped desiring but because your desires have changed.

  William Braxton Irvine

  Reading, Desire, Motivated

  William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• When it comes to desiring, we are all experts. If there were an Olympics of desiring, we would all make the team.

  William Braxton Irvine

  Team, Experts, Olympics

  William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the woman running to meet her lover and later deciding to have children, and the old woman, hunched over her walker, moving down the hall of the nursing home at a glacial pace to pick up her mail. Banish desire from the world, and you get a world of frozen beings who have no reason to live and no reason to die.

  William Braxton Irvine

  Niña, Correr, Bebé

  William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.2, Oxford University Press

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