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My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure. When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive--I'll find love again.
From The Zahir
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Topic: Inspirational
I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.
From Veronika Decides to Die
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Topic: Inspirational
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly
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Topic: Inspirational
The energy of hatred won't get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.
From The Zahir
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Topic: Inspirational
Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.
From Brida
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Topic: Inspirational
There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.
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Topic: Religion
You don't seem mad at all,' she said.

But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?
From Veronika Decides to Die
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Topic: Philosophical
i don't regret the difficulties I experienced; I think they help helped me to become the person I am today. i feel the way a warrior must feel after years of traning; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right
From The Zahir
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Topic: Philosophical
The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
From The Alchemist
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Topic: Happiness
Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
From The Zahir
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Topic: Life
The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight.
From The Pilgrimage
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Topic: Life
Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only for that reason, I have a profound respect for the human race, and I believe that its future is going to be much better than its present. Even knowing that their days are numbered and that everything will end when they least expect it, people make of their lives a battle that is worthy of a being with eternal life. What people regard as vanity-leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten- I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.
From The Pilgrimage
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Topic: Death
Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.
From The Alchemist
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Topic: Inspirational
Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt.
From Manuscript Found in Accra
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Topic: Inspirational
Fortunate are those who take the first steps.
From By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
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Topic: Success
Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I'm going to have a husband, a home, two children, a house in the country. As long as they're busy doing that, they're like bulls looking for the bullfighter: they react instinctively, they blunder on, with no idea where the target is. They get their car, sometimes they even get a Ferrari, and they think that's the meaning of life, and they never question it. Yet their eyes betray the sadness that even they don't know they carry in their soul. Are you happy?
From The Zahir
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Topic: Happiness, Life
Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live, and she was always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she made now. “I’m afraid of committing myself,” she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none. Even in that most important area of her life, love, she had failed to commit herself. After her first romantic disappointment, she had never again given herself entirely. She feared pan, loss, and separation. These things were inevitable on the path to love, and the only way of avoiding them was by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes not to see the bad things in life.
From Brida
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Topic: Life
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
From The Alchemist
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Topic: Inspirational
When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.
From The Alchemist
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Topic: Inspirational
Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.
From Manuscript Found in Accra
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Topic: Inspirational
No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around.
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Topic: Inspirational
All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion is also choosing a collective way for worshipping and sharing the mysteries. Nevertheless, that person is the only one responsible for his or her actions along the way and has no right to shift responsibility for any personal decisions on to that religion.
From Like the Flowing River
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Topic: Religion
But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best.
From Eleven Minutes
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Topic: Motivational
Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.
From The Pilgrimage
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Topic: Death, Life
My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure. When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive--I'll find love again.
From The Zahir
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.
From Veronika Decides to Die
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
The energy of hatred won't get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.
From The Zahir
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.
From Brida
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
You don't seem mad at all,' she said.

But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?
From Veronika Decides to Die
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
i don't regret the difficulties I experienced; I think they help helped me to become the person I am today. i feel the way a warrior must feel after years of traning; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right
From The Zahir
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
From The Alchemist
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
From The Zahir
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight.
From The Pilgrimage
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only for that reason, I have a profound respect for the human race, and I believe that its future is going to be much better than its present. Even knowing that their days are numbered and that everything will end when they least expect it, people make of their lives a battle that is worthy of a being with eternal life. What people regard as vanity-leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten- I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.
From The Pilgrimage
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.
From The Alchemist
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt.
From Manuscript Found in Accra
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
Fortunate are those who take the first steps.
From By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Success
Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I'm going to have a husband, a home, two children, a house in the country. As long as they're busy doing that, they're like bulls looking for the bullfighter: they react instinctively, they blunder on, with no idea where the target is. They get their car, sometimes they even get a Ferrari, and they think that's the meaning of life, and they never question it. Yet their eyes betray the sadness that even they don't know they carry in their soul. Are you happy?
From The Zahir
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Life
Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live, and she was always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she made now. “I’m afraid of committing myself,” she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none. Even in that most important area of her life, love, she had failed to commit herself. After her first romantic disappointment, she had never again given herself entirely. She feared pan, loss, and separation. These things were inevitable on the path to love, and the only way of avoiding them was by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes not to see the bad things in life.
From Brida
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
From The Alchemist
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.
From The Alchemist
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.
From Manuscript Found in Accra
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion is also choosing a collective way for worshipping and sharing the mysteries. Nevertheless, that person is the only one responsible for his or her actions along the way and has no right to shift responsibility for any personal decisions on to that religion.
From Like the Flowing River
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best.
From Eleven Minutes
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Motivational
Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.
From The Pilgrimage
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death, Life
My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure. When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive--I'll find love again.
From The Zahir
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.
From Veronika Decides to Die
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
The energy of hatred won't get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.
From The Zahir
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.
From Brida
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
You don't seem mad at all,' she said.

But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?
From Veronika Decides to Die
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
i don't regret the difficulties I experienced; I think they help helped me to become the person I am today. i feel the way a warrior must feel after years of traning; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right
From The Zahir
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
From The Alchemist
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
From The Zahir
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight.
From The Pilgrimage
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only for that reason, I have a profound respect for the human race, and I believe that its future is going to be much better than its present. Even knowing that their days are numbered and that everything will end when they least expect it, people make of their lives a battle that is worthy of a being with eternal life. What people regard as vanity-leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten- I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.
From The Pilgrimage
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.
From The Alchemist
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt.
From Manuscript Found in Accra
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
Fortunate are those who take the first steps.
From By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Success
Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I'm going to have a husband, a home, two children, a house in the country. As long as they're busy doing that, they're like bulls looking for the bullfighter: they react instinctively, they blunder on, with no idea where the target is. They get their car, sometimes they even get a Ferrari, and they think that's the meaning of life, and they never question it. Yet their eyes betray the sadness that even they don't know they carry in their soul. Are you happy?
From The Zahir
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Life
Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live, and she was always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she made now. “I’m afraid of committing myself,” she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none. Even in that most important area of her life, love, she had failed to commit herself. After her first romantic disappointment, she had never again given herself entirely. She feared pan, loss, and separation. These things were inevitable on the path to love, and the only way of avoiding them was by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes not to see the bad things in life.
From Brida
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
From The Alchemist
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.
From The Alchemist
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.
From Manuscript Found in Accra
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion is also choosing a collective way for worshipping and sharing the mysteries. Nevertheless, that person is the only one responsible for his or her actions along the way and has no right to shift responsibility for any personal decisions on to that religion.
From Like the Flowing River
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best.
From Eleven Minutes
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Motivational
Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.
From The Pilgrimage
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death, Life
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