"I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk."
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"Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when that person looks back – and at some point everyone looks back – she will hear her heart saying, “What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of losing those talents. So this is your heritage; the certainty that you wasted your life."
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"None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith."
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"Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see."
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"When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times."
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"Life is a journey. How we travel is really up to us. We can just flow with the tide or follow our own dreams."
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"If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain."
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"Whatever I did, I did with love and I did with honesty."
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"Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time."
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"One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now."
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"A Warrior knows that an angel and a devil are both competing for his sword hand. The devil says: "You will weaken. You will not know exactly when. You are afraid." The angel says: "You will weaken. You will not know exactly when. You are afraid." The Warrior is surprised. Both the angel and the devil have said the same thing. The devil continues: "Let me help you." And the angel says: "I will help you." At that moment the Warrior understands the difference. The words may be the same but these two allies are completely different. And he chooses the angel's hand."
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"The best way to live a miserable life is to pay attention to what other people are saying about you."
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"Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other?"
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"Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them"
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"The world we live in will be either better or worse depending on whether we become better or worse."
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"One never knows what life may have in store for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is."
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"You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don't feel guilty and accept the blessings."
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"When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny."
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"Sometimes it's what you don't say that counts."
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"Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs - but move on."
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