Antonio Machado

"Wanderer, there is no path. The path is made by walking."

"Everything passes and everything remains, but our task is to pass things on."

"Love is so short, forgetting is so long."

"The goal is not to arrive, but to travel with good company."

"What good is wishing you were somewhere else? You are here."

"I love Jesus Christ above all things, but I love truth more."

"There is no greater fortune than to be born with good health and poor parents."

"The axe doesn't ask the tree for permission to cut it down."

"Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid."

"In order to arrive at what you know not, you must go by a way which you know not."

"Everything is pure invention in poetry, and therefore everything is allowed."

"The possessed, the obsessive, those who hear voices and follow them blindly."

"Knowledge is power, but knowledge alone is not wisdom."

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."

"Life is the only real thing we have, and we waste it with our doubts."

"The essential is to awaken. To awaken is to become aware."

"We are all fragments of a great broken mirror."

"Nature does not hurry, yet all things are accomplished."

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"Time is the substance from which I am made."

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

"A man's life passes gently out of view."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men."

"The only journey is the one within."

"Every man has the capacity to do something great."

"To know oneself is the beginning of wisdom."

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

"The greatest wealth is health."

"Let us be like a crystal in the morning sun."

"Freedom is not given, it is taken."