Rodolfo Enrique Cabral Camiñas, whose stage 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 several artistic talents, he described himself as a minstrel, that is, a street artist who presented stories and poetry through songs.
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.
To remember the poems 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 loved, in fact, until you become love.
About 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 become.
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.
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 am not from here, nor am I from there, I have no age or future and being happy is my color of identity.
Happiness as the main goal of life.
6. You win and 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 there will be no need to use the scales, because it is enough to watch over a singer with a milonga.
Simplicity, its 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 cupboards to notice the things I don’t need.
Completely removed 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 I can give you: the first was to give you life, the second was freedom. to live it.
Talking about his first experience towards independence.
15. Every morning is good news, every child born is good news, every righteous man is good news.
The good news is in the small good details.
16. Life is famine or feast. You choose.
Only you can make the decision.
17. Don’t worry about what you’re going to eat or what you’re going to wear. Because of such small things, man becomes unhappy, because the Lord knows well what your skin needs. Go with Him.
Showing your devotion to God.
18. Forgive everyone and forgive yourself.
Forgiveness lifts a heavy burden from our shoulders.
It is important to stay informed, but we do not have to believe everything we hear.
20. Don’t say I can’t even as a joke! 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 most complex moments.
22. If you steal to fight the thief; If to combat the liar, you lie; If to fight the murderer, you kill; How are you different from them?
Fighting crime with more crime only makes evil increase.
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.
24. In an eternity you can always start again, and this is as true as paradise is not lost but forgotten.
Every day is a new opportunity.
25. The assholes are very 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 bad people knew what good business it was to be good, they would be good, even if it were only for business.
A very interesting reflection.
29. Don’t complain, remember that you were born naked, so those pants and that shirt you are wearing are already profit.
Complaints only make problems look bigger than they really are.
30. Forgetfulness is a kindness from God.
It is better to forget the things that limit us.
31. Abandon the mediocre, the safe (which is the security of the cemetery); Don’t worry about your reputation, but worry about your self-esteem.
The opinion that should interest you most is your own, not that of others.
32. If you want, you can be free today, because the power is found here and now, in every moment of your life.
With every small change you will see how your life improves.
33. I am 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 earth, 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’m tired of family and the economy.
This demanding and consumerist way of life is exhausting.
36. Human society is as bad because of the misdeeds of the bad as it is because of the complicit silence of the good.
They are both responsible for the way the world turns now.
37. Do not seek security, but fullness; There is no support like yourself: you are the lever to move the world.
Become your biggest motivator.
38. Take care of the present, because you will live the rest of your life in it.
Every day becomes your present.
39. Nothing worse for the head, and therefore for the body, than fear, guilt, resentment and criticism (an exhausting and vain task), which makes you 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 that we don’t know how to use.
41. To seek God is to meet one; If you have faith, you will move the world.
About the power of religion for him.
42. Julio Iglesias has more diffusion, 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. Every singer is good news, because every singer is one less soldier.
The benefit of the arts for a person’s life.
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 time on this planet is so short that it is a terrible 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 imagine.
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. Furthermore, the best of him, love, is still in your heart.
Death is just the step we take after life.
48. Every second lost is a life lost, and our time in the world is so brief that I can’t get the idea of not taking advantage of every moment.
The more you waste time, the less you have to live.
49. Life is about 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 injustices.
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 more unnecessarily.
53. You’re not depressed, you’re distracted. Distracted from the life that populates.
An interesting way of looking at the depression that afflicts many.
54. From the cradle to the grave is a school, so what you call problems are lessons.
Lessons that, just like in school, help us improve.
55. I turn my face to the enemy, my back to a good comment, because he who accepts a compliment begins to be dominated.
Staying away from praise.
56. Man is only the owner of what he loves, if he does not love it, it does not belong to him.
A strong reason to do what we love.
57. Only cheap things can be bought with money.
People who give themselves easily to money.
58. He who is not willing 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 are no good.
Things that are not made with love do not survive.
60. Good is the majority but it is not noticeable because it is silent.
It is necessary to give voice to the good.
61. Life doesn’t take things away from you, it frees you from things.
Don’t cry over 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, like plenitude, within one.
Tranquility helps us have better internal harmony.
64. My heart loves more than I think, my mind has no boundaries.
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, intuition and the pigeons go, that is where I direct my flight without thinking about anything else.
Letting yourself be 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 despair that comes when that loved person is not there.
68. I was illiterate until I was 14, so when they tell me ‘I can’t’, I tell them ‘no shit’.
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 the first and second years intensely.
Make your third age this wonderful.
70. From my mother I learned that it is never too late, that you can always start again.
The best advice we can give someone.
71. Erase the past so as not to repeat it, so as not to treat yourself the way they treated you; But don’t blame them.
Holding on to the past only prevents you from living fully in the present.
72. No one can be a slave, much less a master, because they will love one and hate the other; Furthermore, outside of God, anyone else is an impostor.
No one can control you without your permission.
73. This confirms what I always suspected: we love each other, that’s why we get 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 the 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 lament but stay there for a long time.
77. Between blue afternoons and melancholy coming to fruition, where have I placed your last kiss? Don’t 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 you don’t live alone and what happens to you 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 ourselves regardless of other people’s opinions.
81. If you achieve tranquility you will be happier, you will have better health, you will love and forgive. It is a life full of plenitude.
There are more benefits to peace of mind than to living under stress.
82. All things have already been said, but since no one listens… it is necessary to start again.
Listen, because then you can learn.
83. All beautiful things began with singing, don’t forget that your singing mother rocked you.
Singing is part of human history.
84. I can shamelessly say that I am a free and happy guy.
A life that many only dream of.
85. It is advisable that you strengthen the good so that it emerges victorious in moments of confrontation and introspection.
Moments of solitude should be used for introspection.
86. My mother said: I hope that when death comes, I will find myself completely 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 to be able to live the way you want today.
88. We will fly like 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 everything, if I didn’t lack fear.
Fear also helps us 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 our minds open.
93. He who does what he loves is blessedly condemned to success, which will come when it should come, because what should be will be, and will come naturally.
Success comes sooner or later for those who do what they love.
94. Blessed is he who does not exchange the dream of his life for his daily bread.
A risk that many do not dare to take.
95. Excess information is already the work of deformation.
Mishandling information only generates chaos.
96. No one can teach what they do not 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, to the news programs that poison you since the morning, to those who want to direct your life along the lost path.
Unfortunately, they are habits that do not benefit us, but from which we cannot separate 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 (outside of happiness they are all pretexts), and we must be happy.
Happiness is in our DNA.
101. The Lord left the secret at my fingertips, 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.
Whether those things fill us and bring happiness or they are 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 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, misfortunes and conflicts.
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.
Evil may seem great, but loving gestures 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 should 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 even 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 the “I can’t” barrier on yourself, because when you need to improve yourself, you will have accustomed your subconscious to that mentality.
Instead, think about what you are going to try and try until you achieve 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 a witness. Man only walks, time is the path.
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 have been in vain.
Things happen for a reason.
118. Man ambitions more every day and loses his way because he wants to fly.
When ambition diverts you from your humanity.
119. Furthermore, service is a secure 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.
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