32 phrases by Mário Quintana that will make you reflect

The smile enriches the recipients without impoverishing donors.

The good thing about Mondays, the first of each month and the First of the Year is that they give us the illusion that life is renewed… What would become of us if the leaflet were today marking the 713,789th day of the Christian Era?

If I were to really believe everything I think, I’d go crazy.

Friendship is a love that never dies.

Indulgence is the most polite way to look down on someone.

In the end, there are no good or bad. There are only those who enjoy doing good and those who enjoy doing evil. Everything is voluptuousness.

Poetry does not surrender to those who define it.

Whoever wants only glory does not deserve it.

If I love my fellow man? Yup. But where to find my fellow?

To love is to change the soul of home.

What kills a garden is not abandonment. What kills a garden is the look of someone who passes through it indifferently. And so it is with life, you kill the dreams you pretend not to see.

I live in myself. It doesn’t matter if the room is small. It’s good, that way I have less places to lose my stuff.

Time does not stop! Only nostalgia makes things stop in time.

In coexistence, time does not matter. If it is a minute, an hour, a life. What matters is what remains of this minute, this hour, this life.

Self-taught is ignorant on his own.

To dream is to wake up inside.

The soul is that thing that asks us if the soul exists.

A lie is a truth that has forgotten to happen.

A good poem is one that gives us the impression that we are reading it and not us reading it.

The real illiterates are those who have learned to read and do not read.

The past does not recognize its place: it is always present.

All those who are standing in my way. They will pass… I little bird!

There are nights I can’t sleep with remorse for everything I failed to do.

If things are unattainable… why! There’s no reason not to want them… How sad the paths, if it weren’t for the magical presence of the stars!

We live in fear of the future; but it is the past that tramples and kills us.

What will happen to the moon that every time we look it is with the sudden astonishment of the first time?

Allow yourself to laugh and meet other hearts. Learn to live, learn to love people with solidarity, learn to do good things, learn to help others, learn to live your own life.

If I could I would take the pain, put it in an envelope and return it to the sender!

The night lit up the stars because it was afraid of the darkness itself.

I always felt isolated in these social gatherings: too many people prevent me from seeing people…

Don’t make a draft of your life, you may not have time to clean it up.

The worst of our problems is that nobody has anything to do with it.