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"It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
"There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic."
"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
"I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits"
"Pain is something to master, not to wallow in."
"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."
"Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy."
"Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering."
"Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth."
"I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls."
"I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again."
"Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls."
"Good things happen to those who hustle."
"You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead."
"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle."
"We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them."
"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."
"The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe."
"When you possess light within, you see it externally."
"Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together."