"When there is no turning back, then we should concern ourselves only with the best way of going forward."
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"Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked. "Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure."
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"If you act like a victim, you are likely to be treated as one."
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"A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place."
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"Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love."
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"Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant."
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"When you are moving toward an objective," said Petrus, "it is very important to pay attention to the road. It is the road that teaches us the best way to get there, and the road enriches us as we walk its length."
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"As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had no more rancor left in her heart. She had finally allowed her negative feelings to surface, feelings that had been repressed for years in her soul. She had actually FELT them, and they were no longer necessary, they could leave."
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"That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation and transformation, love is preserved."
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"They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it."
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"Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I'm going to have a husband, a home, two children, a house in the country. As long as they're busy doing that, they're like bulls looking for the bullfighter: they react instinctively, they blunder on, with no idea where the target is. They get their car, sometimes they even get a Ferrari, and they think that's the meaning of life, and they never question it. Yet their eyes betray the sadness that even they don't know they carry in their soul. Are you happy?"
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"She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination she was making love with men of all skin colors--white, black, yellow--with homosexuals and beggars. She was anyone's, and anyone could do anything to her. She had one, two, three orgasms, one after another. She imagined everything she had never imagined before, and she gave herself to all that was most base and most pure."
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"Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs."
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"I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me."
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"To teach is to show what is possible; to learn is to make yourself possible."
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"Everyone's looking for the perfect teacher, but although their teachings might be divine, teachers are all too human, and that's something people find hard to accept. Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself."
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"Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble."
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"Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other."
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"By changing the way you do routine things you allow a new man to grow inside you."
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"Item one: the law of the will. We just talked about this: one should only do that which truly fills our hearts with enthusiasm. If we brush this aside, if we put off the moment to live that which we dream of, we lose the energy necessary for any important transformation in our lives. Someone once put this most succinctly: “I don’t know the secret of success - but the secret of failure is to always try to follow the will of others."
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