To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.
If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.
In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.
Giving up doesn’t always mean you’re weak. Sometimes you’re just strong enough to let go.
We are all failures – at least the best of us are.
Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.
I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that’s in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.
Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way.
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.
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.
I don't want anyone who doesn't want me.
This, too, will pass.
If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.