"The Lord often has his prophets climb mountains to converse with Him. I always wondered why He did that, and now I know the answer: when we are on high, we can see everything else as small. Our glory and sadness lose their importance. Whatever we conquered or lost remains there below. From the heights of the mountain, you see how large the world is, and how wide its horizons."
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"Where are they written?" "In the world around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life, and you will discover where, every moment of the day, He hides His words and His will. Seek to do as He asks: this alone is the reason you are in the world." "If I discover it, I'll write it on clay tablets." "Do so. But write them, above all, in your heart; there they can neither burned nor destroyed, and you will take them wherever you go."
"It is not the life that matters, but the journey."
"if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading."
"Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing;but it become a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life."
"Love was above everything else, and there was no hatred in love, only the occasional mistake."
"You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness."
"a man doesn't prove he's a man by getting an erection. He's only a real man if he can pleasure a woman. And if he can pleasure a prostitute, he'll think he's the best lover on the block" -Nyah"
"no project is completed until its objective has been achieved."
"So long as you do no harm to another, change your opinion once in a while. Contradict yourself without being embarrassed. This is your right. It doesn't matter what others think -because that's what they will think, in any case."
"Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world."
"Even if you slept with every man on Earth, my love will still survive."
"Whenever a new situation presented itself, you had to remain cool and distant"
"It has been said that there is no such thing as coincidence in this world."
"There are no risk in Love, as you'll find out for yourself. People have been searching for and finding each other for thousands of years. Suddenly, he realised that the might be wrong. There was always a risk, a single risk: that one person might meet with more thatn one Soulmate in the same incarnation."
"That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you."
"It's better to live cherishing a dream than face the possibilty that it might all come to nothing."
"She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault of that insecure little boy, who had given up after the first attempt."
"When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do."
"We never lose our loved ones. The accompany us; they don't disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms."