Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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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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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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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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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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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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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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