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In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else’s path is wrong.
You are what you believe yourself to be.
At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.
The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn’t think. To think is to make mistakes.
I’m like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
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We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it’s another to think that yours is the only path.
We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.
When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast.
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