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"Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence."
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
"If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean."
"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well."
"Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach."
"Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream."
"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."
"As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it."
"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them."
"It's quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. [Fr., Il est tres simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.]"
"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."
"You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh."
"I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams."
"Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree."
"One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness."
"When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea."
"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."
"You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad."
"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return."
"All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it."