Life is a fast, dizzing game; life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and to feel angry a...
Let yourself get carried away by the night from time to time. Look up at the stars and try to get drunk on the sense of infinity. The night, with all its charms, is also a path to enlightenment. Just...
Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.
LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation.
L'essere umano può sopportare una settimana di sete, quattordici giorni di fame, alcuni anni senza un tetto, ma non riesce a tollerare la solitudine.
Knowing that doesn't make any difference. People do their best not to remember and not to accept the immense magical potential they possess, because that would upset their neat little universes.
I’m afraid of committing myself, she thought to herself.When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are t...
Item one: the law of the will. We just talked about this: one should only do that which truly fills our hearts with enthusiasm. If we brush this aside, if we put off the moment to live that which we d...
It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil, said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
It's always necessary to know when a stage of one's life has ended. If you stubbornly cling to it after the need has passed,you lose the joy and meaning of the rest. And you risk being shaken to your...
It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels through endless time. What the boy felt at that moment was that he was in the presence...
It is your blessing, the path God has chosen for you here on Earth. Whenever a man does that which gives him enthusiasm, he is following his Legend. However, not everyone has the courage to face up to...
Is it possible to fix love and make it stand still in time? Well, we can try, but that would turn our lives into a hell. I haven't been married for more than 20 years to the same person, because neith...
In the world of my imagination, Esther was still my companion, and her love gave me the strength to go forward and explore all my frontiers.In the real world, she was pure obsession, sapping my energy...
In the same way, there is no explanation of life. But there is a reason we are here, and you must be humble enough to accept that. Trust what I say; the life of each human being has a meaning, althoug...
In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.
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.
In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.
If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating.
If what one finds is made of pure matter; it will never spoil. and one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing in r...