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"Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive a mortal blow. The perfect crime--for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found."
"At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still, and the Soul of the World surged within him. When he looked into her dark eyes, and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and silence, he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke — the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. Something that exerted the same force whenever two pairs of eyes met, as had theirs here at the well."
"The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not."
"Everything depends on which path you take."
"Déjà vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bother with things that make no sense. It show that time doesn't pass. It's a leap into something we have already experienced and that is being repeated."
"When we feel weak, all we have to do is wait a little while. The spring returns and the winter snows melt and fill us with new energy."
"The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other"
"Thousands of years ago, weren't we capable of building enormous structures like the pyramids? Weren't we capable of worshiping gods, weaving, making fire, finding lovers and wives, sending written messages? Of course we were. But although we've succeeded in replacing slaves with wage slaves, all the advances we've made have been in the field of science. Human beings are still asking the same questions as their ancestors. In short, they haven't evolved at all."
"I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money."
"...and I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be."
"If you are never alone you cannot know yourself. And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void."
"Instead of answering your question directly I shall quote from the Indian poet Tagore: “I slept and dreamt that life was joy/ I awoke and saw that life was service/I acted and behold, service was joy.” In fact, through my work I discover life, people, and everything which happens around us."
"Only the defeated know LOVE. because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles - and generally lose."
"Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice."
"Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible."
"Respect your soul: don't keep repeating "I'm going to make it". Your soul already knows that, what it needs is to use the long journey to be able to grow, stretch along the horizon, touch the sky. An obsession does not help you at all to reach your objective, and even ends up taking the pleasure out of the climb. But pay attention: also, don't keep saying "it's harder than I thought", because that will make you lose your inner strength."
"The Superclass tries to promote its values. Ordinary people complain of divine injustice, they envy power, and it pains them to see others having fun. They don’t understand that no one is having fun, that everyone is worried and insecure, and that what the jewels, cars, and fat wallets conceal is a huge inferiority complex."
"Enjoy the questions and forget the answers."
"the power of beauty:what must the world be like for ugly women?"
"He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom."