"Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. Dream is also just a word until you decide to fight for it with all your enthusiasm and commitment"
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"There is no time to leave important words unsaid."
"Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant and rank."
"Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine."
"The warrior of light listens to what his opponent has to say. He only fights if absolutely necessary."
"Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul."
"The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion."
"There's no point sitting here, using words that mean nothing. Go and experiment. It's time you got out of here. Go and re-conquer your kingdom, which has grown corrupted by routine. Stop repeating the same lesson, because you won't learn anything new that way."
"How does light enter a house? If the windows are open. How does light enter a human? If the door of love is open."
"The energy of hatred won't get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way."
"if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests he did not create a single leaf the same as another."
"Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way."
"Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption."
"You don't need to explain your dreams. They belong to you."
"If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule. Never lie to yourself."
"Things do not always happen the way I would have wanted, and it's best that I get used to that."
"We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to."
"A Warrior trusts other people because, first and foremost, he trusts himself."
"No one ever loses anyone. We are all one soul that needs to continue growing and developing in order for the world to carry on and for us all to meet once again."
"Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World."