The 120 best phrases of Facundo Cabral

Rodolfo Enrique Cabral Camiñas, whose artistic name was Facundo Cabral (by which he would be known throughout the world), was a singer-songwriter, writer, poet and philosopher of Argentine origin. As he had various artistic talents, he described himself as a minstrel, that is, a street artist who presented stories and poetry through song.

In this article you will find a selection of the best phrases of Facundo Cabral, which show his way of understanding the world and life.

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The most memorable phrases of Facundo Cabral

To remember the poetry and messages that this Argentine artist left us, we bring a compilation with the best phrases of Facundo Cabral.

1. Love until you become the beloved, indeed, until you become love.

On the value of being able to love without limits.

2. Escape from those who buy what they don't need, with money they don't have, to please people who aren't worth it.

People who, the more they ambition, the more empty they remain.

3. I like to walk, but I don't follow the path, because what is safe no longer has a mystery.

Preferring spontaneity above all.

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4. If you are attentive to the present, the past will not distract you, then you will always be new.

Being in the present allows us to enjoy life better.

5. I'm not from here, nor am I from there, I have no age, no future and being happy is my color of identity.

Happiness as the main goal of life.

6. You win and you lose, you go up and down, you are born and you die.

The road of life.

7. God will respect you if you are a worker, but if you are a minstrel, he will love you.

Talking about enjoying the arts.

8. Your best asset is time.

Time is valuable, so it is a sin to waste it.

9. The day I die we won't have to use the scales, because to watch over a singer with a milonga is enough.

Simplicity, his best asset.

10. I need more freedom than Julio to live, that's why God made me freer.

His opinion that Julio Iglesias had more visualization than him.

11. When a friend leaves, there is an empty space that cannot be filled by the arrival of another friend.

Each friend is special and therefore irreplaceable.

12. I like to go out and look at cabinets to realize the things I don't need.

Completely away from consumerism.

13. We are born to live.

Our only mission is to live our life to the fullest.

14. When I left home, still a child, my mother accompanied me to the station and when I got on the train she told me: 'This is the second and last gift that I can give you: the first was to give you life, the second the freedom to live it

Talking about his first experience towards independence.

15. Every morning is good news, every child born is good news, every just man is good news.

The good news is in the little good details.

16. Life is hunger or feast. You choose.

The decision can only be made by you.

17. Do not worry about what you are going to eat, what you are going to wear. That for such small things man becomes unhappy, because the Lord knows well what your skin needs. Go with him.

Showing his devotion to God.

18. Forgive everyone and forgive yourself.

Forgiveness takes a heavy load off our shoulders.

19. Don't let the news distract us.

It's important to stay informed, but don't believe everything you hear.

20. Don't say I can't even joking! Because the unconscious has no sense of humor, it will take it seriously, and it will remind you every time you try.

Remember that your potential begins with what you believe in your mind.

21. Forgive me, sir, but sometimes I get tired.

It is normal to feel like giving up in the face of the most complex moments.

22. If to fight the thief you steal; if to fight the liar, you lie; if to fight the murderer, you kill; how do you differ from them?

Fighting crime with more crime only makes the evil worse.

23. Forgive yourself, accept yourself, recognize yourself and love yourself. Remember that you have to live with yourself for eternity.

That is why it is important to be in harmony with ourselves.

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24. In an eternity one can always begin anew, and this is as true as paradise is not lost but forgotten.

Every day is a new opportunity.

25. The assholes are extremely dangerous because they are the majority and they choose presidents.

The people who do the most damage to society.

26. Blessed is he who knows that to share a pain is to divide it and to share a joy is to multiply it.

Sharing makes us heal.

27. There is no greater liberation than forgiveness; there is nothing like living without enemies.

A life full of tranquility and peace.

28. If the bad guys knew how good business it is to be good, they'd be good, if only for business.

A very interesting reflection.

29. Don't complain, remember that you were born naked, so those pants and that shirt you're wearing are already profit.

Complaining only makes problems look bigger than they really are.

30. Forgetting is a courtesy of God.

It is better to forget the things that limit us.

31. Abandon the mediocre, the safe (which is the safety of the cemetery); Don't worry about your reputation, but your self-esteem.

The opinion that should interest you the most is your own, not that of others.

32. If you want, you can be free today, because the power is here and now, in every moment of your life.

With each small change you will see how your life improves.

33. I'm not a singer because I can, but because I feel like it.

Cabral was a singer because that was his purpose in life.

34. Forgive me brother that I do not understand that you are not happy on such a beautiful planet, that you have made a cemetery of this land, which is a party.

No one can understand what we feel.

35. Sometimes I get tired of being a citizen, I get tired of the city, the offices. I am tired of the family and the economy.

This demanding and consumerist way of life exhausts.

36. Human society is as bad because of the misdeeds of the bad guys as because of the complicit silence of the good guys.

Both are responsible for the way the world spins now.

37. Seek not security, but fullness; there is no support like oneself: you are the lever to move the world.

Become your biggest motivator.

38. Take care of the present, because in it you will live the rest of your life.

Every day becomes your present.

39. Nothing worse for the head, and therefore for the body, than fear, guilt, resentment and criticism (exhausting and futile task), which makes you the judge and accomplice of what you dislike.

Negative feelings that if you don't face them now, they will accumulate and won't let you move forward.

40. You have a brain like Einstein, you have a heart like Jesus, you have two hands like Mother Teresa, you have a will like Moses, you have a soul like Gandhi, you have a spirit like Buddha. So how can you feel poor and miserable?

Gifts we don't know how to use.

41. To seek God is to meet one; If you have faith, you will move the world.

On the power of religion for him.

42. Julio Iglesias has more publicity, more success than me since he needs money much more than I do to live.

Emphasizing that he did not need fame for his life.

43. Each singer is good news, because each singer is one less soldier.

The benefit of the arts for a person's life.

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44. If you love money at most you will reach a bank, but if you love life, you will surely reach God.

Love takes you where you want to be.

45. Our passage through this planet is so short that it is a bad idea not to enjoy every step and every moment, with the favor of a mind that has no limits and a heart that can love much more than we suppose

What prevents us from enjoying life?

46. When a friend leaves, a burning brand remains that cannot be extinguished even with the waters of a river.

The magnitude of the loss of a friend.

47. You didn't lose anyone, the one who died, simply got ahead of us, because that's where we're all going. Also the best of him, love, is still in your heart.

Death is just the step we take after life.

48. Every second lost is life lost, and our passage through the world is so short that I can't get used to the idea of ​​not taking advantage of every moment.

The more you waste time, the less you have to live.

49. Life consists of enjoying every moment.

Because it is the moments that together make a life.

50. When we blame another person, we are being irresponsible for our actions.

Those who do not assume their responsibilities create a world of injustice.

51. We are all rich, that is, children of God, but few of us know it.

Wealth beyond money.

52. And if the story is so simple, why do you care so much?

We tend to worry unnecessarily more.

53. You are not depressed, you are distracted. Distracted from the life that populates.

An interesting way of seeing the depression that afflicts many.

54. From the cradle to the grave is a school, that's why what you call problems are lessons.

Lessons that, just like in school, help us improve.

55. I face the enemy, my back on good comments, because whoever accepts a compliment begins to be dominated.

Staying away from praise.

56. Man only owns what he loves, if he doesn't love it, he doesn't belong to him.

A strong reason to do what we love.

57. Only the cheap is bought with money.

People who give themselves easily to money.

58. He who is not prepared to lose everything is not prepared to gain anything.

Sometimes you have to lose something to gain something better.

59. Things are done for love or they don't work.

Things that are not done with love, do not survive.

60. The good is the majority but it is not noticeable because it is silent.

It is necessary to give voice to good.

61. Life doesn't take things away from you, it frees you from things.

Do not cry for losses, because they are unnecessary things in your life.

62. Remain a child and you will sleep in peace, without wars or calculating machines.

Maintain the kindness and empathy of childhood.

63. In tranquility there is health, as fullness, within one.

Tranquility helps us to have a better internal harmony.

64. My heart loves more than I think, my mind has no borders.

Keeping an open mind leads us to discover new frontiers.

65. You are not alone, you are also salt of the earth.

You can always find someone to be with.

66. Where the sun, the wind, the intuition and the pigeons go, that is where I direct my flight without thinking about anything else.

Getting carried away by nature.

67. Oh, my love, how terribly absurd it is to be alive, without the soul of your body, without your heartbeat.

The desperation that comes when that loved one is not there.

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68. I was illiterate until I was 14 years old, so when they tell me 'I can't', I tell them 'don't fuck around'.

An example of improvement, which tells us that it is never too late to do something new.

69. The wonderful thing about the third age that I am going through is having lived intensely the first and the second.

Make your old age this wonderful.

70. From my mother I learned that it is never too late, that you can always start over.

The best advice we can give someone.

71. Erase the past so as not to repeat it, so as not to treat you as they treated you; but don't blame them.

Holding on to the past only makes you not fully live the present.

72. No one can be a slave, much less to masters, because they will love one and hate the other; furthermore, apart from God, anyone else is an impostor.

Nobody can control you without your permission.

73. This confirms what I always suspected: we love each other, that's why we got together.

When people love each other, they should be together.

74. Do only what you love and you will be happy.

Happiness is in doing what we love.

75. Cowardice ages us more than time, the years only wrinkle the skin, but fear wrinkles the soul.

It is regrets and guilt that weigh on the body.

76. There are so many things to enjoy and our time on earth is so short that suffering is a waste of time.

Cry and mourn but stay there for a long time.

77. Between blue afternoons and fulfilling melancholy, where have I put your last kiss? I do not know.

The melancholy that arises when love ends.

78. Within you are both good and evil.

Doing good and evil is a choice.

79. Because one does not live alone and what happens to one is happening to everyone.

There will be someone out there who understands what you are going through and with whom you can share your feelings.

80. Life is very rich, that's why you have to be brave.

Courage is what leads us to enjoy regardless of the opinion of others.

81. If you achieve tranquility you will be happier, have better health, love and forgive. It is a life full of fulfillment.

There are more benefits in tranquility than in living stressed.

82. All things have already been said, but since no one listens... it is necessary to begin again.

Listen, because that way you can learn.

83. All beautiful things began singing, do not forget that your mother rocked you singing.

Singing is part of the history of humanity.

84. I can shamelessly say that I am a free and happy guy.

A life that many only dream of.

85. It is convenient that you strengthen the good so that it emerges victorious in moments of confrontation and introspection.

The moments of solitude should be used for introspection.

86. My mother used to say: I hope that when death comes to me, I find myself totally alive.

No regrets in how he has lived.

87. Leave the fear of failure in the past and start living in the here and now.

Fear must be left behind in order to live as you want today.

88. We will fly like the birds, in the sky there are no borders. I will cover your skin with mine and winter will be summer.

The love that promises to be everything.

89. We all have a conscience, but few of us listen to it.

There are many who tend to ignore their morals.

90. I would have it all, if I didn't lack fear.

Fear also helps us to be cautious.

91. Remember that every problem is an opportunity to learn.

We cannot improve unless we make mistakes.

92. We have to enjoy the snow of winter and the flowers of spring.

We can enjoy everything, if we have an open mind.

93. He who does what he loves is blessedly doomed to success, which will come when it should come, because what should be will be, and it will come naturally.

Success comes sooner or later to those who do what they love.

94. Blessed is he who does not change his dream of life for his daily bread.

A risk that many do not dare to take.

95. The excess of information is already a work of deformation.

The mishandling of information only generates chaos.

96. Nobody can teach what they don't know, forgive them and you will free yourself from those chains.

No one person can know everything.

97. Live from moment to moment, because that is life.

Remember that the whole is made up of thousands of parts.

98. Right now you can say enough to the habits that destroy you, to the things that chain you, to the credit card. credit, to the newscasts that poison you from the morning, to those who want to direct your life along the path lost.

Unfortunately, they are habits that do not benefit us, but from which we cannot detach ourselves.

99. And I, luckily, was young and irresponsible for many years.

Talking about his youth.

100. We are children of love, therefore we are born for happiness (out of happiness they are all excuses), and we must be happy.

Happiness is in our DNA.

101. The Lord left the secret within reach of my hand, when I saw the orange I knew that the miracle exists.

When we search, we are helped to find what we want.

102. When life shows us a thousand reasons to cry, show it a thousand and one reason to laugh.

Happiness can be built by our hands.

103. The important thing is not the price but the value of things.

If those things fill us and bring happiness or are they just objects.

104. Accepting life as it is and letting things happen naturally is the best way to overcome anxiety.

Understand that we cannot control everything in our lives.

105. Free yourself from anxiety, think that what should be, will be and will happen naturally.

Anxiety can arise from that need to know everything.

106. Love is a state of perfection, a sublime state in which we are free from jealousy, misery and conflict.

Could it be that what we need most is love?

107. A bomb makes more noise than a caress, but for every bomb that destroys there are millions of caresses that feed life.

The evil may seem great, but the gestures of affection never end.

108. Poverty is not a virtue, unless it favors your freedom.

Poverty is a limitation in many ways.

109. Always, with what you have, you can, you must start over. We have the duty to be happy.

Start with the tools you have in your hand.

110. Don't ask for more, live more.

When we live, we understand what we want and need.

111. I love you when you walk and I love you when you sing. I love you when you fall asleep and more when you wake up.

The love that is in every expression and gesture.

112. Give without measure and they will give you without measure.

Remember that you have as you give.

113. Never put on the barrier of "I can't", because when you need to overcome yourself, you will have accustomed your subconscious to that mentality.

Instead, think about what you are going to try and try until you get it.

114. Pay attention to the present so as not to deviate from what is important, so that the past does not distract you again.

When we focus on today, we are able to let go of the past.

115. Man knows nothing, only time is witness. Man only walks, time is the way.

We learn as time goes by.

116. Help the old, and the young will help you when you are young.

Kindness always brings great rewards.

117. None of the moments you have lived has been in vain.

Things happen for a reason.

118. The man ambitions, every day more, and he loses the way for wanting to fly.

When ambition diverts you from your humanity.

119. In addition, service is a sure happiness, like enjoying nature and taking care of it for those who will come.

When you serve a cause, your soul is filled.

120. If you are attentive to the present, the past will not distract you, then you will always be new.

Leaving the past behind is what leads you to flourish.