"A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better."
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"When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue."
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"I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it."
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"The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy."
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"Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world."
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"When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long for me to write this book?" Because my dream, since I was 10 years old, was to be a writer. I said, I have to revisit my life using a metaphor, and the metaphor was basically this boy that has a dream and has to go far away to realize that his dream is close to him."
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"The pain of yesterday is the strength of today."
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"Love is joy. Don't convince yourself that suffering is a part of it."
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"Don't try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent."
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"Making mistakes is a way of taking action."
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"Courage is the first spiritual quality that you need to have."
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"Find someone who makes you smile, because it only takes a smile to make a day better"
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"Only cowards hide behind silence."
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"We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people."
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"A man is at his strongest when he is willing to accept his vulnerability"
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"Every man has a feminine side, and every woman a masculine side. It is important to use discipline with intuition, and to use intuition with objectivity."
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"You may not be winning, but this doesn't mean you are losing"
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"Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path."
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"We are all masters of our own destinies."
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"A warrior of light always commits himself. He is enslaved to his dream but he is free in his steps."
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