16. «You choose where and you decide until when, because your path is exclusively your business.»
One must make the decisions that one considers about one’s own life, with the right that no one interfere and want to make them in one’s place.
17. «Let me fend for myself. If you do everything for me, I will never be able to learn. In case you forgot, you only learn from mistakes.»
The best education is born from self-motivation and self-sufficiency; Even if you do it wrong, you learn from your mistakes.
18. «Desire is only useful as long as it is directed towards the action that satisfies it.»
Desire is a tool that we use to achieve our goals. Otherwise it is not useful.
19. «Making love implies a connection with love that does not happen all the time, not even between two people who love each other.»
With this phrase from Jorge Bucay he wants to tell us that intimate relationships are an expression of love, something that depends on the moments and what happens in the small details when we interact.
20. «Because no one can know for you. No one can grow for you. No one can search for you. No one can do for you what you yourself must do. Existence does not admit representatives.»
Each person is relatively independent and has to be aware of this and take care of themselves.
21. «Never persecute yourself believing that you should feel better by now. Your times are yours. Remember that the worst enemy in grieving is not loving yourself.»
After a loss, you should take as much time as you need to feel good about yourself again, without trying to push away your feelings of sadness.
22. «I believe that happiness can be achieved, as long as one does not fall into the stupid idea of believing that being happy means laughing all day.»
Happiness is much more than a state of mind, and it cannot be forced.
23. «We are not responsible for emotions, but we are responsible for what we do with emotions.»
This quote from Jorge Bucay tells us that feelings are impossible to control, but we are responsible for how to act accordingly.
24. «If you’re at a dead end, don’t be stupid… go out the way you came in.»
This famous quote by Jorge Bucay expresses that when something ends, there are always ways to continue letting go of certain desires.
25. «Love is not found in us to sacrifice it for the other, but to enjoy its existence.»
In love you have to enjoy the time you spend with the other person, being clear that it is not an expensive commodity, but rather it emanates from the relationship itself in a simple way.
26. «It is through actualizing and expressing feelings that the grieving person can feel relieved and liberated.»
People need to release what they think in order to move forward. One of Jorge Bucay’s most inspiring phrases.
27. «It just worries me a little to think that maybe tomorrow I’ll be too old to do what I’ve left undone.»
Time is valuable, and it is important to value it as such to squeeze out life in all its nuances.
28. «Friends should not be chosen from among those who are capable of accompanying you when you cry; they should be chosen from among those who are capable of laughing at the same things you laugh at.»
A reflection by Jorge Bucay on friendship as a phenomenon that accompanies us in the way we experience happiness.
29. «Consumer culture has consequently created an attitude of rivalry and comparison that educates us to confront ourselves with others.»
A reflection on the current consumer society that, instead of leading us to happiness, makes us confront each other.
30. «I allow myself to take risks that I decide to take, on the condition of paying the prices of those risks myself.»
We are the only ones responsible for our actions and their consequences, and we must act consistently taking this principle into account.
31. «Making mistakes is an important part of learning, because without mistakes there is no growth.»
It’s part of learning to make mistakes so they don’t happen again.
32. «Everything I do and everything I decide to stop doing is motivated by a desire, whether I can identify it or not.»
We need reasons to do or stop doing something, let’s be aware of it. Chance does not exist in our actions.
33. «When you are in a relationship and you realize that while the other person could save you a little bit of suffering, it is because everything is over.»
One of Jorge Bucay’s phrases about love is sharing and wanting to help the other person reciprocally.
34. «The true seeker grows and learns, and discovers that he is always primarily responsible for what happens.»
Each person is responsible for their actions and the engine of their own personal growth.
35. «I allow myself to seek what I consider I need from the world and not wait for someone to give me permission to obtain it.»
Actions are the responsibility of each person, and therefore it is necessary to understand that oneself is the driving force of one’s personal evolution.
36. «Grieving means getting in touch with the void left by the loss of what is not there, valuing its importance and enduring the suffering and frustration that its absence entails.»
In this phrase by Jorge Bucay, we reflect on the feelings of existential emptiness and the feeling of longing that are generated during mourning.
37. «The deaf always believes that those who dance are crazy.»
Situations can have different readings that are very different from each other.
38. «Don’t forget that, good or bad, this too shall pass.»
Life has an end, so you have to keep it in mind and live in the present without artificially creating worries.
39. «Do not give me without measure everything I ask of you. Sometimes I ask to know how much it is reasonable to take.»
You have to know when it is necessary to ask others for help, but also know how to say no and take into account how easy it is to fall into excess.
40. «If I needed someone to be with me all the time, that person should be myself.»
This phrase by Jorge Bucay is a way to poetically express the importance of having adequate self-esteem and progressing in self-knowledge.
41. «Freedom is being who I am, not who they expect me to be.»
This reflection by Jorge Bucay serves to explore the essence of freedom, something that is oriented towards the goals that each person sets for themselves.
42. «Nothing good is free.»
Everything in life comes from the effort that is necessary to obtain it.
43. «To depend on myself I will have to think of myself as the true center of what happens to me.»
This famous quote by Jorge Bucay indicates once again the importance of stopping attributing to others what happens to oneself.
44. «The course of life is set by the meaning that someone wants to give to their own existence.»
The objectives and desires depend on the life path we have decided to take, deciding what really matters to us; We have the last word.
45. «Is the path chosen always the correct one? The correct thing is in the choice, not in the success.»
One of Jorge Bucay’s phrases about how important it is to trust in one’s own power of choice, and not so much in one’s own infallibility.
46. »The most important step in growth is to become a knower of oneself, of the worst and the best of myself.»
Self-esteem and self-exploration are two of the most important elements in life.
47. «The happiness that some people maintain can be achieved exclusively through religion is often the product of a superficial approach to life that is not reflected upon.»
In this phrase by Jorge Bucay it is pointed out that only with faith and dogmas we cannot achieve what we really value.
48. «The death of a loved one is an inevitable fact in our lives and the growth that comes from it as well.»
Death is a part of life, and the personal growth that comes with overcoming grief is too.
49. «Don’t always give orders. If instead of orders, you sometimes asked me for things, I would do it faster and with more pleasure.»
Sometimes manners are forgotten and more demands are made than favors are asked.
50. «A life that adds up can be the first brick to build a happy life.»
Happiness can also be achieved by being with other people and by developing long-term projects that at first seem to bring no benefit.
51. «We do not fall in love with each other’s potential, but with what the other truly is. And while we are together, let us encourage them to let it out more and more.»
In love we fall in love with what the other person is like; and we do not seek to change it, but rather encourage it to remain faithful to what makes it unique.
52. «I don’t like that education according to which you have to fight to surpass others and not to surpass yourself.»
A new reflection on the bad thing about educating in competitiveness and not in valuing oneself to evolve towards a better “I”.
53. «Death will come, after all death has a good memory and never forgot anyone.»
Death is part of life, and we will all come to it, so we must accept it.
54. «If one does not make the decisions one has to make, then the crisis lasts forever. And if one remains paralyzed, that is a tremendous problem.»
This phrase from Jorge Bucay seeks to highlight the importance of deciding and not letting problems fester.
55. «Difficulties are revealed to us, then, as positive stages of life, since they are what allow us to reach happiness.»
One of Jorge Bucay’s phrases about the positive side of problems; They do not prevent us from reaching the goal of happiness, but rather they are the means by which we navigate to progress.
56. «When you are wrong about something, admitting it will make my opinion of you grow, and in the process you teach me to also admit my mistakes.»
Admitting mistakes is very important to grow as a person, and it is a way to improve. Therefore, it is a healthy habit that should be respected and valued.
57. «Don’t tell me: ‘I don’t have time for nonsense’ when I tell you about my problem. Or ‘That’s not important’. Try to understand me and help me.»
In this phrase by Jorge Bucay, the idea is expressed that we should not underestimate the points of view of others or their motivations or priorities; Cases in which interests are perfectly shared are the exception, not the norm.
58. «I am terrified of living with a person who considers me essential in their life, because they are manipulative and sinister thoughts.»
You have to relate to other people, but not depend solely on them.
59. «You are like this ring: a jewel, valuable and unique. And as such, only an expert can truly evaluate you. What are you doing in life expecting anyone to discover your true value?»
Each person has to know who they are and not wait for others to tell them, attributing greater value to other people’s judgments than to their own criteria.
60. «Everything starts with the education we receive, so we should educate differently. I do not share that education according to which you are good if you are better than someone, and you are bad if you are worse than others.»
With this phrase by Jorge Bucay, the education received in a consumer society is criticized, which…