It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Now that I am moving, I am afraid. Where am I going?
Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
Introspection is a devouring monster.
The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.
You fall in love with people's minds.
"We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing."
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
You live out the confusions until they become clear.
If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses
We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.
We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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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