If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.
Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.
Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.
Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.
Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything!
Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.
It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak.
You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.
If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.
The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it.
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.
A goal without a pan is just a wish.
Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.
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