"The true lover realizes that freedom is needed for loyalty to blossom."
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"Instead of using your thoughts, become your thoughts"
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"Love is always the same but people change."
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"I never lose when I love. I only lose when I'm afraid to"
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"A warrior knows that the farthest-flung star in the Universe reveals itself in the things around him."
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"A warrior of light knows that certain impossible battles are worth fighting and so he/she is not afraid of being disappointed, knowing the power of his/her love."
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"The True Lover is the one who realizes that Loyalty must go hand in hand with Freedom."
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"May we understand that fear of failure is worse than failure itself"
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"I don't get anywhere meditating," she said. "I see people sitting there with their eyes closed, a smile on their lips or else grave-faced and arrogant, concentrating on absolutely nothing, convinced that they're in touch with God or with the Goddess. So instead, let's listen to some music together."
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"There is no better time than the autumn to begin forgetting the things that trouble us, allowing them to fall away like dried leaves. There is no better time to dance again, to make the most of every crumb of sunlight and warm body and soul with its rays before it falls asleep and becomes only a dim light bulb in the skies."
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"He celebrates yesterday's victory in order to gain more strength for tomorrow's battle."
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"If only we could be enlightened enough to be able to listen in the silence."
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"Passion. It can be used to describe the beauty of an earth-shaking meeting between two people, but it isn't just that. It's there in the excitement of the unexpected, in the desire to do something with real fervour, in the certainty that one is going to realise a dream. Passion sends us signals that guide us through our lives."
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"I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself."
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"Why do they make things so complicated?" "So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand.," he said. "Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value." "It's those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work."
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"The story of one person is the story of all of humanity."
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"I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books."
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"The rain is falling ever harder, and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I’m drenched, but I can’t move. I don’t want to leave, because I don’t know where to go"
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"I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous."
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"I came to realize that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their lovely, clean faces, and saw myself reflected in them. They, on the other hand, looked at me and saw the dirt on my face and, however intelligent and self confident they were, they ended up seeing themselves reflected in me and thinking that they were worse than they were. Please don't let that happen to you."
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