Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
ANAIS NINAnd the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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