Ricky Martin Quotes

Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams for the future.

Life is like a great teacher..... she will repeat the lesson until you learn.

If there is one lesson I've learned lately, it's the importance of telling the universe what you want.

By 12.30, Giles had consumed five gin-rickies, four gin-and-tonics, three gin-and-its, two gin-and-bitters, and one gin.

I fully believe that luck comes to those who have worked hard to find it.

Do what you love to do,Do it often Ricky_Martin

Now I realize that the most profound lessons in the world typically come in the simplest of ways. I had to see, suffer, enjoy, and live what I have lived to arrive at this place of understanding.

Anyone who is not on your same evolutionary and spiritual frequency will distance himself from you, while all those who are on the same evolutionary and spiritual frequency as you will come closer to you; you will see how amazing it is to discover that everyone who needs to be by your side will ultimately appear in your life in the most spontaneous and divine manner. That's how powerful the mind is

My grandfather always told me, "Go through life with your hands in your pockets, making fists so everyone will think that they're full of money." What he meant was that you should never let people see you down.

Needless to say, we all have to make the best of the opportunities that come our way, but we should never forget about our true passion.

I have to throw myself into the world, searching for what I want, dreaming of it, and not sitting around doing nothing, waiting for it to land at my feet like some kind of miracle.

I think that the people who sit around and wait for their destiny to land in their laps will probably get old waiting.

I have a very clear image in my mind of what perfect love is. Many people say to me, 'But there's no such thing as perfect love...' I don't care what they say; I'm a romantic! And I do believe in perfect love. I believe love never hurts. I believe love is trust, peace, calm, confidence; being playful and mischievous.

I know what it feels like to be loved and I know what it feels like to love someone - totally and absolutely, with intensity and without any prejudgments. I also know what it is like to be judged for what I am and for what I am not.

If there is someone in this world that deserves to be happy.......that would be you!

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

things never happen exactly when we want them to; things always seem to happen all at once

Nothing has been written about cowards', so I let go of any fears I might have had and plunged headfirst into this opportunity that life had thrown my way.

It's one thing to be famous and another thing to be totally controlled by fame.

You have to search for love. You have to believe in it. You have to ask the universe for exactly what you want to call to your life. But most of all, you have to be patient.

Today I feel the need to look back and observe the path that has led me to where I am, so that the future that lies ahead can be as luminous and truthful as possible.

now I hold the full conviction that my true happiness lies in living my life freely, without any fears or false pretexts

Life gives us experiences, and every decision we make determines where we will be later.

Richard cocks his hand at me and yelps, "Tootles" then saunters off, and for a moment I am transfixed, imagining him walking to Ricky Martins, "Shake your bon-bon!

When you are surrounded by so many talented people, it is normal to start doubting your own artistic choices, but to be a truly original artist, it is crucial to stay true to yourself.

It is important to remember that what you do and what you are are not always the same thing. Both are part of life, part of the same journey. If you don't try to do what you are really passionate about, you will never make your dreams come true.

I believe that everything that happens in life happens for a reason. I also believe that the God that lives inside me - to call it something - is in charge of giving me everything I am going to ever need. All of my joys and pains have made me who I am. They are the yin and yang of my existence, this inseparable duality of life that blends together and makes us the people we are destined to become. I have known love and loss, joy and sadness, friendship and betrayal. I have known a sense of success I never imagined possible; I have had to withstand the attacks and accusations of my detractors; and yes, I have also had failures. Today I know that every step has taught me something and helped me grow and become a better and stronger person - a more complete human being.

Life is as simple or as complicated as we make it.

Most of the things we often consider “important” really aren’t that important in the big scheme of things.

The two most important days of your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why

One small positive thought in the morning will change your day

So, you are waiting to be ready??? Watch out, you can be waiting all your life. GO Do it ;0)

One never knows how destiny will rear its head, and sometimes it is not in the most obvious way.

The applause and the energy of the public are my addiction—they are my vice.

Attraction does not have a logical reason. It simply happens, and as humans, all we do is react to it.

life presents us with experience after experience, and with every deed, decision, and selection we are determining where we will end up

the truth is that everyone creates his own luck and his own destiny

Success is a double - edged sword, because for everything that one does, something else is sacrificed; for every road taken, another one is left uncharted. It is the law of life.

I am certain that the moment is now, because that is how it was always meant to be. It is only now that I am ready, and it is only now that I can do it - not one day earlier or one day later.

If anything is true in this world it is that destiny is something you have to help. If I had not done my own part, I would have never come to where I am now. At no point did I sit down and wait for destiny to show up on my doorstep. I went out and looked for it and knocked on its door instead.

It took time, but I finally understood that if they were fighting it was only because they both wanted the best for me. My parents each had their own point of view, and though their stubbornness may have caused me a lot of pain, they were doing it for the most important reason: because they loved me and I was their son... When I finally understood this, I was able to find peace. In my heart, I forgave all of the pain and anger they caused me, and today we have one of the most loving and caring relationships possible. I treasure every moment they spend with my children and me, and I try to see them as often as possible.

I learned that it is very easy to lose yourself in the pain. Pain comes, it seduces you, it plays with you, and you identify with it to the point that you start to believe this is how life is. When you feel that heaviness in your heart, most of the time the parameters of pain and relief become blurry, and it is very easy to stay stuck in what you already know, pain. We lose our memory and forget the peaceful moments when everything was light and gravity was an ally. It's okay to feel hurt - it's human. It's important to feel, but you cannot cling to sadness, distress, or bitterness for too long, because they will inevitably destroy you.

What happens to the other people who don't share this faith? Are they not in heaven, either? I thought (and still think) these kinds of affirmations are seated in a great deal of arrogance. Where do the Jewish, Muslims, Catholics, Buddhists, Taoists, Native Americans, atheists, agnostics go? Are they trapped in nothingness?

Like everything else in my life, it was as if destiny itself had laid it out before me, and the only thing I had to do was decide whether to take advantage of the opportunity. Now more than ever, after everything I have been through, I am convinced that this is how everything in life is, that this is its magic and its beauty.

In life, everything that is good, everything that is really worthwhile, requires sacrifice. It doesn't matter if it is big or small - the fact is that we must go through countless challenges and very uncomfortable, scary moments that may bring about a great deal of suffering. But at the end of the day, when we come out on the other side, we realize that we are better than we have ever been before.

From the day we are born until the day we die, we progress on a path of learning, in which every decision we make or fail to make becomes a part of our personal growth. There is this karmic realm where you have to pass through the challenges that life gives you to liberate yourself from that which weighs you down, preventing you from reaching divinity. We all progress down a spiritual path that offers us opportunities to learn - and even tragedy has its meaning.

Father Brian D’Arcy spoke of the love the locals had for Shay Hutchinson and described him as ‘an originator’ of country music in Ireland, who highlighted the musical links between the United States and Ireland: He wanted to sing and make people happy with this other American music which in turn had been got from the Irish anyway … so country music and Irish people … it’s natural that we would want to be part of country music because it was our music originally. It came out from the Celtic nations, from Scotland and Ireland, went out to America to the bluegrass hills and they still play bluegrass as Irish music to this very day … people like Ricky Skaggs and Bill Monroe are indistinguishable from Sean McGuire [a famous fiddle player from Tyrone] playing the fiddle.

LIFE’S MOST VALUABLE LESSONS ARE LEARNED IN ABSOLUTE silence.

The only way to learn in life is by making our own mistakes,

«Sai che somiglia vagamente a Shakira, la cantante...quella colombiana.»⠀ «Si, e l'altra? L'amica che si è fatto Giulio a chi somiglia a Ricky martin?»⠀ «Mah, ecco...la sua amica a dire il vero era parecchio bruttina ma lui si sa che a volte si lascia prendere dai particolari...diciamo che ha un bel sorriso e per questo a lui è garbata subito.» «Ho capito avete incontrato Shakira e Sciagura...»❞ Pag. 46

Cuidado con los miedos. Les encanta robar sueños

Don't let people tell you who you are. You tell them.

No porque el consejo venga de alguien que te ama, quiere decir que sea el correcto.

But no matter how much pain one can feel and no matter how much hardship one may have to endure, life always goes on.

I realized that all things in life are connected and I could no longer go about life without looking within.

In life, there is always the temptation of wanting everything at once, like right now. When we chase a dream we see it all so clearly, and it's normal to want it to become a reality right away, or at least as soon as possible. But as we all well know, things in life are never simple. The path toward one’s goals is often full of obstacles, and by overcoming each obstacle in your own way, there is a lesson to learn.

What a horrible irony. They attack me, but they love me; they accept me, but they exclude me. They speak of homosexuality as something that can be "cured" through prayer and atonement, as if it were something bad, when in fact homosexuality is a blessing the same way heterosexuality and life in general are blessings

With time I have learned that life has a funny way of shaking me around when I need it most. In that moment, I don't always understand it, and often I even resist it, when in reality I have learned that what I need to do is open myself up to the challenges that lie ahead—because it is these very challenges that allow me to grow, learn, and change. Instead of resisting change, I have chosen to search for it and embrace it because all change, as scary as it may seem, comes with an infinite realm of new possibilities

Destiny is a curious thing. It doesn't always take us where we want to go, and many times it ends up taking us to an unexpected place where we feel confused, lost, with no idea where to go next. These are complicated and painful moments that make us suffer and question who we are, along with what we want the most in our lives. But if we really make the effort to see these challenges as opportunities to find ourselves, we will understand that it was exactly what we needed to discover and strengthen our role on this planet.

I did not always understand why I had to experience what I had to, but with time I could see that everything had its own reason. I could finally see that a single experience - good or bad - does not define everything, and the most important thing is to always stay alert to the various opportunities that arise. Every course has its fair share of bumps, and as painful and hard as they may have been, these bumps were crucial for my growth and maturity as a person and an artist.

another piece of useful advice Madonna gave me was, 'Ricky, if music, art, or your career start to take over your life, disconnect. You have to be the one who controls your career; don't let it control you.

Life's most valuable lessons are learned in absolute silence. It is when we are deep in that silence that we have the ability to think about and connect with our most intimate nature, our spiritual being. We all go through life - some in more of a rush than others - searching for happiness. It seems so simple, right? But we soon realize that before we find happiness, even before we begin to look for it, we need to understand what we are made of. We must connect with the little boy or girl we each have inside to discover our deepest dreams and the means to make them happen.

There are millions of cultures in the world, right? We are all different in so many ways, but ultimately what matters is that we are all human beings. The only thing we really need to live is the urge to breathe. And when we get cut, the blood that comes out of our bodies is the same color.

It doesn't matter what path you choose to reach it. Be it Catholicism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, quantum physics, Taoism, atheism—what matters is to find what works for each of us, and since each one of our minds is a universe on its own, it's not surprising that each of us would need to find a different way to reach his own state of inner peace. No one thing is better than another; no one religion is more effective or more valid than another. The key is to find one's own way.

Silence is really one single note, just one note. It is the sound you hear when you turn off all the lights and all the gadgets in your house, when you are alone and you lie down in your bed to sleep. What you hear in those moments is the sound of silence.

Everything begins with silence. Once you find the sound of silence, you are able to separate yourself from all that is physical and everything around you.

Keep trying... with practice you will get there. With practice everything is possible.

I learned that happiness really appears at the times when one is finally able to detach from all those types of complications.

Most of the things we often consider "important" really aren't that important in the big scheme of things. Life is as simple or as complicated as we make it.

Everything I ask of the cosmos comes when it is meant to come. It took me a while to understand this, but now that I know it and have integrated it into my own philosophy, I live a much more peaceful life. Instead of worrying about what might be or what could have been, I stay focused on the present and on what I need to do to reach my own happiness, because whatever it is I may be lacking, I know the cosmos will ultimately send my way.

I have learned that the more I study, the more I know, and then I feel more prepared to face the reality of the situation and make my contribution toward finding a solution to the problem.

Every step taken is important. Every effort makes a difference, no matter how small it might be.

what I have learned along the way is that everyone has to help with the tools that have been given to him

If we, who are all here together on this earth, don’t take care of one another, then who else will? It is our duty.

Everything in life arrives at its moment.

I have always thought that attraction, like love, is a matter of souls that find one another and collide. Souls aren't feminine or masculine; they simply find one another, and when there is a connection, when there is something that grabs you and turns your insides, that is when the magic is born along with attraction and love

Instead of saying 'we need to tolerate diversity', why not say, 'we need to accept diversity'.

If they hate me, let it be for who I am, not for who they think I am. And if they love me, let them love me for who I am, not for who they think I am

Today, I understand that I can't expect everybody to love me, and as silly as it may sound, it took me a long time to absorb and understand that.

The thing is that we tend to perceive one another the way we want to. And when that image is destroyed, we become angry. Maybe we don't want to see the truth, or maybe we could not see it because it was hiding. Everyone lives according to a certain set of rules they learned when they were very young, many of which condition us to see the world as we would like it to be, and not as it truly is.

everything changes, I have faith.

To make decisions that represent significant change in one's life, we must go through many processes of destabilization, and very often we opt to stay where we are most comfortable. And that's how life goes on. But if we dare to embark on the most difficult option, we come to realize that what exists on the other side is a world of freedom, peace, and endless tranquillity.

I discovered my own story and I fell in love with it.

I am of the belief that happiness comes to those who have happy thoughts.

There are some decisions that are very hard to make. But once we make them, we realize that we are stronger, happier, and more complete. We realize that we are able to do so much more than we ever imagined.

Instead of thinking, 'I am different from them,' try saying, 'hey are different from me.

Every day begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams for the future.

Every single life matters.

this was a mission that came directly from the heart, and in the midst of the chaos I constantly kept repeating, in the form of a mantra, 'Everything will be okay. Everything will be okay.

I have learned that I have to focus on what I have done, as opposed to what is left to do. Otherwise, it would be too overwhelming.

When I look back, it's easy to see how one thing led to the next, and how every moment of my life happened for a reason. But when I was in the middle of it all, looking ahead and trying to decipher the next step, it wasn't always so easy to see.

today I feel that it doesn't do any good to worry so much about what decision to make or which path to take, because ultimately life has its way of guiding me toward what I need when I need it the most. Not before, not after.

Everyone has their own path, their own story through which they go at their own pace.

Culturally and socially, we are taught to feel sexual attraction for the opposite sex, which causes a great deal of confusion when you feel something different.

I had to understand that in the world there are people who are going to love you for who you are, and those who will want you to be exactly like them; and this simple realization hit me hard. If I don't love myself and if I hide and deny my own self, how can I expect other people to love me for who I really am? It took me a very long time to understand this.

As an artist, one always seeks the acceptance and adoration of the audience, and therefore I was afraid this could affect my career. What would happen if I stopped selling records? What if people stopped coming to my shows? Would I have to stop doing what I love most? Today I realize how ridiculous these questions really are, but at the time I thought they were perfectly valid and important. The world has certainly evolved, and the sexuality of an artist does not have to change the way he or she is perceived. But because I was suffering, I saw only the things that scared me. And since I was afraid of coming out and telling my truth to the world, I filled myself with reasons—irrational ones, of course—not to do it

Many people continue to say they are staunchly opposed to homosexuality; they reject and repudiate it, saying that it goes against human nature. But is there anything more normal than love?

Accepting diversity is the first and most important step we can take toward eliminating hate crimes and uniting humanity.

When life presents you with a river, you cannot rely on luck to supply a boat; you have to dive into the water and swim. Stroke after stroke, you have to reach the other side. You have to create the course of your own destiny and not let chance determine your direction.

Life is a journey and every step we take moves us in some direction. When we are ready and willing, we learn, we advance, and we grow. But it’s very easy—and very common—to not take that first step and to stay exactly where we are, because after all, that which is familiar is usually the most comfortable.