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.
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.
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 is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.
The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.
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.
Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
You fall in love with people's minds.
You live out the confusions until they become clear.
Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
When one is pretending the entire body revolts.
"We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing."
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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.
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits
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