"Emotions are wild horses. It is not explanations that carry us forward, but our will to go on."
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"What is outside is harder to change than what is inside."
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"We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body."
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"Be fully awake if you want to dream"
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"All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society."
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"How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us?"
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"After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony."
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"Fear of failure leads to failure."
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"Go further than you planned. Ask for the moon: you will be surprised how often you get it"
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"I closed my eyes and let the music flow through me, cleansing my soul of all fear and sin and reminding me that I am always better than I think and stronger than I believe."
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"Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life."
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"My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure. When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive--I'll find love again."
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"The soul of the world is nourished by people's Happiness."
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"In my world, everything is possible and everything is relative."
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"The enemy is only a pretext to test our strength"
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"Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world."
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"The path to wisdom is not being afraid to make mistakes."
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"Follow your dreams, transform your life, take the path that leads to God. Perform your miracles. Cure. Make prophecies. Listen to your guardian angel. Transform yourself. Be a warrior, and be happy as you wage the good fight. Take risks."
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"Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free."
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"Choosing a path means having to miss out on others"
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