A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.
Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.
The gods throw the dice, and they don’t ask whether we want to be in the game or not.
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.
When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.
None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.
You are what you believe yourself to be.
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.
Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.
No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.
Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.
You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.
Behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.
We pretend to be strong because we are weak.
All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that’s a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.
The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.
If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.
The wise are wise only because they love.
At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.
Seek to live. Remembrance is for the old.