Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERYAll grown-ups were once children but only few of them remember it.
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It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.
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In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
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You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.
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He who never says “no” is no true man.
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No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
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Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love’s opposite.
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True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.
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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
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When someone blushes, doesn’t that mean ‘yes’?
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A man’s age is something impressive, it sums up his life.
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The one thing that matters is the effort.
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Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals – from common navigation toward a star.
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You give birth to that on which you fix your mind.
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But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
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