"I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change."
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"We must at all costs avoid saying no because people prefer those who say yes, and this allows us to survive in hostile territory."
"The great blessing of life is the existence of tomorrows - and having dreams to realize."
"The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things."
"The Saint finds her true reason for living in unconditional love and in her ability to give without asking anything in return."
"Each human being has the right to two blessings, which are: the blessing to do right, and the blessing to err. In the latter case, there is always a path of learning leading to the right way."
"We hereby declare the end to the wall dividing the sacred from the profane: from now on, all is sacred."
"God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered."
"We are what we do, and not what we think we must do."
"Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life from one moment to the next. But there's the other side of the coin, the second thing that could make a human being take a totally different course from one he or she had planned; and that was called despair. Yes, perhaps love really could transform someone, but despair did the job more quickly."
"We shall choose our adversaries, not the other way around."
"The Warrior of the Light knows that everyone is afraid of everyone else."
"Love accepts its companion unconditionally and allow each to grow in his or her own way."
"For the warrior of light there are no ends, only means. Life carries him from unknown to unknown. Each moment is filled with this thrilling mystery: the warrior does not know where he came from or where he is going."
"Don't think about what you've left behind."
"Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist; that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment."
"When you # travel , you experience, in a very practical way, the act of # rebirth ."
"Physical elegance comes from the body. This is no superficial matter but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground."
"I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I am still crying. To believe even when I am discredited."
"to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world."