"I feel it's my duty as a human being, as a person who is trying - like everybody else who thinks about the state of the world - to enhance the importance of multicultural connection."
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"Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons."
"When you find your way you cannot be scared. You need to be brave enough to take wrong steps. The deceptions, failures, lack of enthusiasm, are tools that God places in our way to reveal the path."
"Don't be like those people who believe in "positive thinking" and tell themselves that they're loved and strong and capable. You don't need to do that because you know it already."
"I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me."
"Time heals almost everything. But when you are healed, you are too old to enjoy"
"To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation."
"Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested."
"Everyone when they are young knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible."
"People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too."
"How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly?"
"The Good Fight is the one that we fight in the name of our dreams."
"Only my insanity keeps me sane in today's world."
"Now go back and meet all those people who you think know everything. Convince yourself that they're right, because we all know everything, it's merely a question of believing."
"He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove."
"If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it."
"Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested." The boy remembered an old proverb from his country. It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn."
"Never apologize for being yourself."
"Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life"
"I think that we are starting to get much more conscious about, you know, the importance of the spiritual path, and we are fulfilling it by paying attention to ourselves."