"All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world."
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"Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile."
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"Faith shows us that we are never alone. Transformation helps us to love the mystery."
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"When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move forward."
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"There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat."
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"Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other. Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. These meetings are waiting for us, but more often than not, we avoid them happening. If we are desperate, though, if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction."
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"I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy. Before coming here, I was thinking I don't deserve it, that i wouldn't be able to meet your expectations, and that you had probably chosen the wrong candidate. At the same time, my heart was telling me that i was being rewarded because i hadn't given up and had fought to the end"
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"Before commencing battle, the Warrior of Light opens his heart and asks God to inspire him."
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"Everything is allowed, except interrupting a manifestation of love."
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"And he never judges someone else's suffering."
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"The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually they gave up the vanities of the world. They discovered that the purification of the metals had led to a purification of themselves."
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"Philosophy can't build bridges, but can encourage people to cross them."
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"When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left!"
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"Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold? The tree says to the leaf: "That’s the cycle of life. You may think you’re going to die, but you live on in me. It’s thanks to you that I’m alive, because I can breathe. It’s also thanks to you that I have felt loved, because I was able to give shade to the weary traveller. Your sap is in my sap; we are one thing."
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"But don’t forget that memory is like salt: the right amount brings out the flavour in food, too much ruins it. If you live in the past all the time, you’ll find yourself with no present to remember."
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"The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions."
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"Sometimes the warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once. 'There is a bridge that links what I do with what I would like to do,' he thinks. Slowly, his dreams take over his everyday life, and then he realises that he is ready for the thing he always wanted. Then all that is needed is a little daring, and his two lives become one."
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"Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him."
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"We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery."
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"Love transforms, Love heals. But sometimes it lays deadly traps and ends up destroying the person who decided to surrender himself completely."
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