Diane Ackerman Citas

• No quiero llegar al final de mi vida y descubrir que sólo he vivido lo que dura. Quiero haber vivido también lo ancho de ella.

  Diane Ackerman

  Inspiración, Vida, Motivación

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• Juro que no deshonraré mi alma con el odio, sino que me ofreceré humildemente como guardián de la naturaleza, como sanador de la miseria, como mensajero de la maravilla, como arquitecto de la paz.

  Diane Ackerman

  Commitment, Compassion, Hatred

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “I Praise My Destroyer: Poems”, p.3, Vintage

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• Ecstasy is what everyone craves - not love or sex, but a hot-blooded, soaring intensity, in which being alive is a joy and a thrill. That enravishment doesn't give meaning to life, and yet without it life seems meaningless.

  Diane Ackerman

  Inspirational, Sex, Giving

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.119, Vintage

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• Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else.

  Diane Ackerman

  Heart, Anxiety, Mind

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• We are defined by how we place our attention.

  Diane Ackerman

  Attention, Defined

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• Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

  Diane Ackerman

  Healing, Elements, Tables

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds”, p.27, Vintage

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• There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world recedes. It . . . gives the brain a small vacation.

  Diane Ackerman

  Inspirational, Prayer, Vacation

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.96, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Empezó en el misterio y terminará en el misterio, pero qué país tan salvaje y hermoso hay entre medias.

  Diane Ackerman

  Life, Beautiful, Country

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.309, Vintage

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• The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

  Diane Ackerman

  Vices, Today, Drink

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.171, Vintage

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• We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention

  Diane Ackerman

  Magic, Attention, World

  Diane Ackerman (2004). “An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• El gran asunto, el asunto de amor con la vida,
  es vivir tan diversamente como sea posible,
  acicalar la curiosidad como un pura sangre de gran espíritu,
  subir a bordo y galopar cada día sobre las colinas espesas y bañadas por el sol.
  Donde no hay riesgo, el terreno emocional es llano e inflexible,
  y, a pesar de todas sus dimensiones, valles, pináculos y desvíos,
  la vida parecerá no tener nada de su magnífica geografía, sólo una longitud.
  Comenzó en el misterio, y terminará en el misterio,
  pero qué salvaje y hermoso país se encuentra en el medio.

  Diane Ackerman

  Life, Beautiful, Country

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• And yet, words are the passkeys to our souls. Without them, we can't really share the enormity of our lives.

  Diane Ackerman

  Soul, Share, Our Lives

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.150, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

  Diane Ackerman

  Heart, Museums, Lifetime

  "A Natural History of Love". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1994.

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• Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well.

  Diane Ackerman

  Assessment, Length, Just Live

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• Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.

  Diane Ackerman

  Art, Light, Shadow

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.9, Vintage

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• People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets.

  Diane Ackerman

  Law, Cities, People

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.21, Vintage

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• In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time's continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute present, watching the world's ordinary miracles. No mind or heart hobbles. No analyzing or explaining. No questing for logic. No promises. No goals. No relationships. No worry. One is completely open to whatever drama may unfold.

  Diane Ackerman

  Fun, Pain, Drama

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.23, Vintage

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• Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.

  Diane Ackerman

  Stars, Thinking, Clouds

  Diane Ackerman, Dave Thurlow, C. Ralph Adler (1999). “Soul of the Sky: Exploring the Human Side of Weather”

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• American writer
  1803-1882
  Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.

  Diane Ackerman

  Play, Brain, Way

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• We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

  Diane Ackerman

  Music, Silence, Listening

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• ¿Quién podría deducir la libélula de la larva, el iris del capullo, el abogado del lactante? ...Todos somos cambiadores de forma y reinventores mágicos. La vida es en realidad un sustantivo plural, una caravana de yoes.

  Diane Ackerman

  Nature, Self, Irises

  Diane Ackerman (2002). “Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden”, G K Hall & Company

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• [On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.

  Diane Ackerman

  Garden, Thinking, Mind

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• When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion.

  Diane Ackerman

  Love Is, Space, Glasses

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.16, Vintage

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• Mírate los pies. Estás de pie en el cielo. Cuando pensamos en el cielo, tendemos a mirar hacia arriba, pero en realidad el cielo empieza en la tierra. Caminamos por él, gritamos en él, rastrillamos hojas, lavamos al perro y conducimos coches en él. La respiramos profundamente. Con cada respiración, inhalamos millones de moléculas de cielo, las calentamos brevemente y las exhalamos de vuelta al mundo.

  Diane Ackerman

  Dog, Thinking, Sky

  Diane Ackerman, Dave Thurlow, C. Ralph Adler (1999). “Soul of the Sky: Exploring the Human Side of Weather”

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• Creo que si observas cualquier faceta de la naturaleza con suficiente detalle, la encuentras fascinante. ¿Cómo no? El universo está lleno de maravillas. He aquí un ejemplo: la lluvia, la forma de la lluvia. Estaba ocupado en mis asuntos, trabajando en mi libro, mirando por la ventana, y estaba lloviendo y me di cuenta de que las gotas de lluvia caían de esa clásica forma redondeada, y pensé: "Me pregunto si las gotas de lluvia son realmente redondas". Así que empecé a investigar un poco y descubrí que las gotas de lluvia cambian de forma 300 veces por segundo.

  Diane Ackerman

  Rain, Book, Fall

  "Understanding writers, down to the letter / How do authors think? Interviews get behind the words to the creative process" by Steve Weinberg, www.sfgate.com. September 11, 2005.

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