Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.
And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.
In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.
I only invoked what you already knew.
First quality: you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps. We call that hand God, and He always guides us accoring to His well.
They think they’re normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I’m going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.
Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.
That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.
They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to have a degree. And thus the world was deprived of some excellent gardeners, bakers, antique dealers, sculptors, and writers.
You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.
And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us.
In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.
Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.
Join with those who sing, tell stories, talk pleasure in life, and have joy in their eyes, because joy is contagious, and can prevent others from becoming paralysed by depression, loneliness and difficulties.
The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love.
Truth resides where there is faith.
Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself.
Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy ourselves, the slaves of fame?
The boy told himself that, on the way toward realizing his own destiny, he had learned all he needed to know, and had experienced everything he might have dreamed of.
But in the end all religions point to the same light. In between the light and us, sometimes there are too many rules. The light is here and there are no rules to follow this light.