one day, when i have kids, i will send them this link & they will finally understand.
this is more of a personal journal than anything else, i don't have much to say that is of any great importance.
french canada. linguistics student. hostel employee. avid photographer. trilingual lady. bike enthusiast. book lover.
quotes. music. flickr. photos. thoughts.
“ I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
— Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
“ For what it’s worth, I think God is how you deal with everything that’s out of your own control. It’s as good a definition as any.
— Jason, Douglas Coupland’s Hey Nostradamus!
“ See how many weapons people have stockpiled; inspect their ammo cache; read their criminal records; get them drunk and bring up God; and then you really know what it is you have to protect yourself from. Forget intentions - learn the deeds of which they are capable
— Reg, Douglas Coupland’s Hey Nostradamus!
“ Sometimes I think God is like the weather - you may not like the weather but it has nothing to do with you. You just happen to be there. Deal with it. Sadness and grief are part of being human and always will be. Who would I be to fix that?
— Heather, in Douglas Coupland’s Hey Nostradamus!
“ People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centred.
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies.
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere, people may deceive you.
Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight.
Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today will often be forgotten.
Do good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it will never be enough.
Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.
— Mother Teresa (what Ken Kesey meant when he said ‘mother teresa them all to death’)
“ Y otros, más y más, empiezan a entender que hablar más de un idioma no daña a nadie. Hay calcomanías en los automóviles en Texas: “El monolinguismo es una enfermedad curable”. Pero, ¿es el monolinguismo factor de unidad, y el bilinguismo factor de disrupción? ¿O es el monolinguismo estéril y el bilinguismo fértil? El decreto del estado de California declarando que el inglés es la lengua oficial solo demuestra una cosa: el inglés ya no es la lengua oficial del estado de California.
— Carlos Fuentes, El espejo enterrado
“ More and more often, however, people are starting to understand that speaking more than one language does not harm anyone. There are automobile stickers in Texas that read MONOLINGUALISM IS A CURABLE DISEASE. Is monolingualism unifying and bilingualism disruptive? Or is monolingualism sterile and bilingualism fertile? The California state law decreeing that English is the official language of the state proves only one thing: that English is no longer the official language of California.
— Carlos Fuentes, The Buried Mirror, Chapter 18: Hispanic USA
