"The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats."
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"I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body"
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"Start using your wings; they need some exercise."
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"If I had to give you one piece of advice, it would be this: don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do. Seek out people who aren’t afraid of making mistakes and who, therefore, do make mistakes. Because of that, their work often isn’t recognized, but they are precisely the kind of people who change the world and, after many mistakes, do something that will transform their own community completely."
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"Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived."
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"When we are unable to receive, we deny someone else the pleasure of giving."
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"Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act"
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"Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them."
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"It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes."
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"And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear."
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"Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could."
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"The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return. We know that, and we are used to it. Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become part of everything. They become the Soul of the World."
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"But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current."
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"To believe in your choice you don't need to prove that other people's choices are wrong."
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"To succeed in life, you must have the courage to be hated."
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"Our soul is governed by four invisible forces: love, death, power and time."
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"Love is what makes you smile when you're tired."
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"The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility."
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"we can harness the energy of the winds, the seas, the sun . But the day man learns to harness the energy of love, that will be as important as the discovery of fire."
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"If you think small, your world will be small. If you think big, your world will be big."
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