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"I learned that the search for God is a Dark Night, that Faith is a Dark Night. And that’s hardly a surprise really, because for us each day is a dark night. None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, and yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith."
"Take these," said the old man, holding out a white stone and a black stone that had been embedded at the center of the breastplate. "They are called Urim and Thummim. The black signifies 'yes,' and the white 'no.' When you are unable to read the omens, they will help you to do so. Always ask an objective question."
"I'm alive. When I'm eating that's all I think about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have to fight,it will be just as good a day as any to die. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life is the moment we are living now."
"In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies."
"Love, too, was just a question of time"
"When you close that door to nowhere throw away the key, we have a tendency to look back and regret"
"The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage."
"Many people don't allow themselves to love...because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past."
"The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles."
"I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears"
"We are afraid of losing what we have."
"I'm afraid that if my dream is realized, I'll have no reason to go on living."
"Love doesn't need to be discussed; it has its own voice and speaks for itself."
"Somewhere you are holding the person I love," the boy said. "So, when I look out over your sands, I am also looking at her. I want to return to her, and I need your help so that I can turn myself into the wind."
"ALWAYS chose the road less taken."
"Don't ask permission. If it does not work, you can apologize later."
"I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win."
"No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded"
"Although I have been through all that I have, I do not regret the many hardships I met, because it was they who brought me to the place I wished to reach."
"From that day on, it was the desert that would be important. She would look to it everyday, and would try to guess which star the boy was following in search of his treasure. She would have to send her kisses on the wind hoping that the wind would touch the boy's face, and would tell him that she was alive."