"There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end."
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"You will fail many times but in failing you'll learn and in learning you'll find your way. Remember, there are no mistakes in life but only lessons, and lessons will keep on repeating until learned"
"I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything."
"but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person with whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life. After a long time, she came to the conclusion that men brought only pain, frustration, suffering and a sense of time dragging."
"You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person? ... I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn't turn into ... a Zahir."
"Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided."
"We are entering a new world in which we can choose to follow our own steps, not those that society forces us to take."
"However difficult it may be to accept what happens to us, one must understand that moments such as this give us the possibility for radical change in our behavior."
"About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil."
"The greatest sin is to miss the point of human existence."
"Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days."
"Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary. Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them because we have been taught that we must follow certain formulas and rules if we want to find God. We do not realize that God is wherever we allow Him/Her to enter."
"We must love because we are loved by God. We must be conscious of death if we are to have a proper understanding of life. We must struggle in order to grow, but without falling into the trap of the power we gain through that struggle, because we know that power is worthless. Finally, we must accept that our eternal soul is, at this moment, caught in the web of time with all its opportunities and its limitations."
"Sometimes Evil pursues the Warrior of the Light, and when it does, he calmly invites it into his tent."
"Being equally convinced that aggression and rudeness are synonymous with having a "powerful personality.""
"Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate."
"Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen."
"In reality things reveal nothing to us. It is people who, by looking into at things, discover a way of penetrating the Soul of the World."
"A warrior of light knows that in the silence of his heart he will hear an order that will guide him."
"..there is nothing worse than the feeling that no one cares whether we exist or not, that no one is interested in what we have to say about life, and that the world can continue turning without our awkward presence. I began to imagine how many millions of people were, at that moment, feeling utterly useless and wretched—however rich, charming, and delightful they might be—because they were alone that night, as they were yesterday, and as they might well be tomorrow."