"A flower is not better when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each stage it is the same thing — a flower in the process of expressing its potential."
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"So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being."
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"When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed."
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"Long since, the desert wind wiped away our footprints in the sand. But at every second of my existence, I remember what happened, and you still walk in my dreams and in my reality. Thank you for having crossed my path."
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"Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public"
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"Life is like the Internet: sometimes is almost impossible to connect."
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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! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds."
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"If you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better."
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"Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives."
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"Sometimes, you get no second chance and that its best to accept the gifts the world offers you."
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"If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself."
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"Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?"
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"Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment. The importance of this has been completely forgotten: even religious holidays have been transformed into opportunities to go to the beach or the park or skiing. There are no more rituals. Ordinary actions can no longer be transformed into manifestations of the sacred. We cook and complain that it's a waste of time, when we should be pouring our love into making that food. We work and believe it's a divine curse, when we should be using our skills to bring pleasure and to spread the energy of the Mother."
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"From the moment that you don't fear to share your heart, you are a free person."
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"And to know how to demand - with all one's might - what one wants"
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"Every human being should know two languages: the language of society and the language of signs. One serves to communicate with other people, the other serves to understand God's messages."
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"If I must fall, may it be from a high place."
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"No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes."
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"You are what you believe yourself to be."
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"When you dance you can enjoy the luxury of being you."
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