All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. Jorge Luis Borges More Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges More Quotes From Jorge Luis Borges So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. Jorge Luis Borges motivational birthday inspirational Don't talk unless you can improve the silence. Jorge Luis Borges communication leadership inspirational Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time. Jorge Luis Borges time love life I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited. Jorge Luis Borges cities life people In my next life I will try to commit more errors. Jorge Luis Borges next errors trying The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream. Jorge Luis Borges mind dream world The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line Jorge Luis Borges labyrinth forever inspirational Doubt is one of the names of intelligence. Jorge Luis Borges doubt names I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat. Jorge Luis Borges loneliness heart inspirational I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books. Jorge Luis Borges reading sleep book The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps. Jorge Luis Borges gaps inevitable may The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book. Jorge Luis Borges library discovery book Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind. Jorge Luis Borges penetrate truth mind A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the words—or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbols—spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word. Jorge Luis Borges spring book world Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. Jorge Luis Borges fire time life Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is. Jorge Luis Borges forever men long What you really value is what you miss, not what you have. Jorge Luis Borges values experience missing From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me. Jorge Luis Borges left weakness healing There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music. Jorge Luis Borges color eye yellow Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. Jorge Luis Borges sand built stones
