5,882 quotes found
“Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.”
“How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.”
“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 fa...”
“And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.”
“If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.”
“You shouldn't have asked," I said. "Love doesn't ask many questions, because if we stop to think we become fearful. It's an inexplicable fear; it's difficult even to describe it. Maybe it's the fea...”
“The boy continued to listen to his heart as they crossed the desert. He came to understand its dodges and tricks, and to accept it as it was. He lost his fear, and forgot about his need to go back ...”
“Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear.Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was ...”
“Being afraid is the worst sin there is.”
“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. Im afraid of committing...”
“No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us ...”
“Dont bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisi...”
“There is peace in play.”
“We hear the world governments talking about peace but we know each government is busy secretly making weapons capable of destroying the entire planet.”
“Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You ha...”
“You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kin...”
“It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presen...”
“When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't ...”
“You are -- your life, and nothing else.”
“Sonnez, grelots; sonnez, clochettes; sonnez, cloches!Car mon rve impossible a pris corps et je laiEntre mes bras press : le Bonheur, cet ailVoyageur qui de lHomme vite les approches,- Sonnez grelot...”
