If you’re a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying ‘the law’ and deserve to be punished.
Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.
But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.
Time that never ends, that never passes, that remains in the present, where all of life’s secrets lie.
Not even your love could withhold you from fulfilling your own personal legend.
Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by.
What good is money to you if you’re going to die? It’s not often that money can save someone’s life.
A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent.
He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence.
It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge.
Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.
Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive a mortal blow. The perfect crime – for we don’t know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found.
We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.
Defeat exists but not suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle, he is improving the skill with which he wields a sword. He will be able to fight more skilfullly next time.
Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams.
All things are manifestations of one thing only.
In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change.
Only a man who is happy can create happiness in others.
And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren’t the case, you wouldn’t have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.
We are entering a new world in which we can choose to follow our own steps, not those that society forces us to take.