“If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.”

If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.

It is always important to know when something has reached its end.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

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.

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.

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

Your eyes show the strength of your soul.

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

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

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.

The soul’s first adventure is the fight between two ideas: the wish to return to earth in a human form, and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form.

I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.

Standing in our power demands that we be vulnerable, listen to our own voice, and take risks outside the comfort of what we know.

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

The shadow is not a problem to be solved or an enemy to be conquered, but a fertile field to be cultivated. When we dig our hands into its rich soil we will discover the potent seeds of the people we most desire to be.

He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.