“La excelencia es un arte ganado a base de entrenamiento y hábito.
No actuamos correctamente porque tengamos excelentes virtudes, somos virtuosos porque actuamos correctamente.
Somos lo que hacemos repetitivamente.
La excelencia no es un suceso sino un hábito”.
-Aristóteles
El código de amistad de los niños es "te quiero mostrar mi mundo": mira cómo salto, mira mira: puedo patear la pelota fuerte; ¿quieres ver mis dibujos? una vez me caí y me raspé la rodilla, ¿quieres ver la cicatriz?
Christopher Reeve spent years convincing the world that Superman could overcome anything. Then, in 1995, a horse riding accident changed his life in an instant, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down.
Lying in a hospital bed, believing his life was over, Reeve told his wife, Dana, that she could leave if she wanted. He didn't want her to feel trapped by a future neither of them had imagined.
Dana never hesitated.
She looked at him and said, "You're still you. And I love you."
Those few words changed everything.
From that moment on, they faced every challenge together. Christopher endured years of rehabilitation while becoming one of the world's strongest voices for spinal cord research and disability rights. Dana stood beside him through every speech, every setback, and every victory, refusing to let hope disappear.
Together, they founded what is now known as the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, helping fund research and improve the lives of countless people living with paralysis.
Christopher Reeve passed away in 2004. Just 17 months later, Dana lost her own battle with lung cancer.
Their son, Will Reeve, has continued to carry their legacy forward.
The world remembers Christopher as Superman. But his greatest story was never about a man who could fly.
It was about a husband who thought he had lost everything... and a wife who showed him that unconditional love can be stronger than any superpower.
Superman star Christopher Reeves asked his wife to leave him after he was paralyzed. Instead, she stepped away from her career to become his full- time caretaker.
@bastianelhordoy@pandemasamadre Pero lo que en realidad los hace la pareja ideal es que a los dos les encanta las aceitunas, solamente que uno dice que las odia para que su pareja sea feliz comiéndolas
“Sometimes you meet someone, and it's so clear that the two of you, on some level belong together. As lovers, or as friends, or as family, or as something entirely different. You just work, whether you understand one another or you're in love or you're partners in crime. You meet these people throughout your life, out of nowhere, under the strangest circumstances, and they help you feel alive. I don't know if that makes me believe in coincidence, or fate, or sheer blind luck, but it definitely makes me believe in something.”
This is one of the greatest lessons in the history of literature.
A goddess offered a man eternal life, eternal youth, and paradise forever. He turned it down...
The goddess was Calypso. The island was Ogygia, which the painters of the nineteenth century imagined in far richer colour than Nolan's film does. Odysseus had washed up there alone, the only one of his crew to survive. She took him in, and she loved him, and she offered him the one thing no human being has ever been given. She says it herself:
"Him I welcomed kindly and gave him food, and said that I would make him immortal and ageless all his days."
No death, no old age, no end at all, on an island of springs and meadows and heavy vines, with a goddess who wanted him to stay.
He spent seven years there crying...
"Him she found sitting on the shore, and his eyes were never dry of tears, and his sweet life was ebbing away, as he longed mournfully for his return... he would look over the unresting sea, shedding tears."
When Zeus finally orders his release, Calypso makes one last attempt. She warns him what is waiting if he goes: more sea, more suffering, more years of it. And then she says the quiet part out loud:
"...thou wouldest abide here and keep this house with me, and wouldest be immortal, for all thy desire to see thy wife for whom thou longest day by day. Surely not inferior to her do I declare myself to be either in form or stature."
Odysseus answers:
"Mighty goddess, be not wroth with me for this. I know full well of myself that wise Penelope is meaner to look upon than thou in comeliness and in stature, for she is a mortal, while thou art immortal and ageless. But even so I wish and long day by day to reach my home, and to see the day of my return."
Notice that he does not argue. He gives her every point. She is more beautiful. She will never age. His wife is mortal, and lesser, and he says it to her face.
And then he says he wants to go home anyway...
The whole thing is in three words: but even so. He is not claiming that Penelope is the finest woman in the world. He is saying that it does not matter, that there is something in us which does not answer to comparison, and which no better offer can reach.
He chose the woman who would grow old. He chose a life with an ending. He chose to return to Ithaca. Because forever, spent somewhere that was never yours, is only time...
"scientists don't want you know" is a phrase that always cracks me up because if you actually meet a scientist they will be shaking and crying like an overstimulated chihuahua with the need to let you know
El empresario del entrenador marroquí Walid Regragui aseguró el deseo de su representado de dirigir a Ecuador. El DT estaría ‘encantado’ de recibir una propuesta de la FEF y tomar el proceso 2030.
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