However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But non...
How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.
How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment to the next? I don't just mean people, but our ideas and dreams too: we might surviv...
Her heart had already been broken many times over, and yet she still believed she was destined to meet the man of her life.
He understood that, contrary to what most people think, total power means total slavery.
He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.
He said something like that:In all languages in the world, there is the same proverb: ‘What the eyes don’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over.’ Well, I say that there isn’t any ounce of truth in it. T...
Have you ever been to Florence? asked Dr. Igor. No. You should go there; it’s not far, for that is where you will find my second example. In the cathedral in Florence, there’s a beautiful clock design...
God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change
For her, everyday was the same, and when each day is the same as next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day the sun rises.
Firstly, by learning the great lesson of wise men: patience, the certainty that everything - both good and bad - is provisional in this life. Secondly, using this sudden change of course to risk new t...
Feeling that the simplest of tasks requires a Herculean effort. Being riddled with guilt because you have no reason to feel like this when there are so many people in the world who are really sufferin...
Fate is never unfair to anyone. We are all free to love or hate what we do.
Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.
Evil had to manifest itself and fulfill its role, so that ultimately Good could prevail. [...] Evil needs to manifest itself, for them to understand the value of Good.
Everything will happen as was written by the Lord, replied the prophet. There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.What reason...
Everything is important. If you live your life intensely, you experience pleasure all the time and don't feel the need for sex. When you have sex, it's out of a sense of abundance, because the glass o...
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him. We, people’s hearts, seldom say much about those treasures, because people no longer want to go in search of them. We speak of them only to children....
Everyone contributes a word, a sentence, an image, but in the end it all makes sense: the happiness of one becomes the joy of all.