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"Stay close to those who are not afraid to be vulnerable, because they have confidence in themselves and know that, at some point in our lives, we all stumble; they do not interpret this as a sign of weakness, but of humanity. Avoid those who talk a great deal before acting, those who never take a step without being quite sure that it will bring them respect."
"Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you."
"A search always starts with Beginner's Luck and ends with the Test of the Conqueror."
"The wise are wise only because they love."
"No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used."
"Life is like Twitter: nobody wants to sign off."
"This time I m not going to tell you a story. I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there."
"Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession. It cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant."
"Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?"
"Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable."
"The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there."
"An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely."
"It’s not always enough to be forgiven by someone, in most cases we have to forgive ourselves first."
"To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are."
"People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction."
"History will never change because of politics or conquests or theories or wars; that's mere repitition, it's been going on since the beginning of time. History will only change when we are able to use the energy of love, just as we use energy of the wind, the seas, the atom."
"The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change: Yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is."
"Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious."
"If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid."
"I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams"