Great Throughts Treasury

"I am of the people who think they have all the answers to everything. The reason is that as far as resort to silence, seem smart in the eyes of others."

"I am love, I am music, she thinks. Let?s dance."

"I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy. Before coming here, I was thinking I don't deserve it, that i wouldn't be able to meet your expectations, and that you had probably chosen the wrong candidate. At the same time, my heart was telling me that i was being rewarded because I hadn't given up and had fought to the end."

"I am surprised how difficult for people is to say I love you. They only say the three magic words when they are sure they will hear I love you too back. C'mon! Spread the energy of love without expecting anything! Cowards are incapable of expressing love; it is the prerogative of the brave"

"I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed."

"I am who I was and who I will be."

"I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other. The meeting of these two women is a game with serious risks. A divine dance. When we meet, we are two divine energies, two universes colliding. If the meeting is not carried out with due reverence, one universe destroys the other."

"I ask myself: are defeats necessary?"

"I beg you to put your trust in... I know that I love you and do my utmost best to give you the freedom that you need it in order to continue in the throbbing in pleasure inside my chest and I will do everything in my power so do not feel bad about my presence around you."

"I began to make some money, but I could never bring myself to leave someone else in charge of the shop; the crystals are delicate things."

"I begun to run from the place where everyone stops running, and now I?m the lone runner who can run in any direction without any rules to follow because now nothing endures me, I'm free."

"I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life."

"I believe in One God, though you think that the gods dwell in those clouds on the Fifth Mountain. I don't want to argue whether my God is stronger or more powerful; I would speak not of our differences but of our similarities. Tragedy has united us in a single sentiment: despair. Why has that come to pass? Because we thought that everything was answered and decided in our souls, and we could accept no changes."

"I believe in signs... what we need to learn is always there before us, we just have to look around us with respect and attention to discover where God is leading us and which step we should take. When we are on the right path, we follow the signs, and if we occasionally stumble, the Divine comes to our aid, preventing us from making mistakes."

"I came to set fire to the earth. And I am watchful that the fire grow. May the fire of love grow in our hearts. May the fire of transformation glow in our movements. May the fire of purification burn away our sins. May the fire of justice guide our steps. May the fire of wisdom illuminate our paths. May the fire that spreads over the Earth never be extinguished."

"I can?t explain why, I just know. Do you remember the first question I ever asked you?"

"I came to realize that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their lovely, clean faces, and saw myself reflected in them. They, on the other hand, looked at me and saw the dirt on my face and, however intelligent and self-confident they were, they ended up seeing themselves reflected in me and thinking that they were worse than they were. Please don't let that happen to you."

"I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads."

"I cannot lose the one thing that keeps me alive: hope."

"I cannot imagine this ugly girls have to give away too much in love when they get too little back. They suffer in silence when they are denied, and must try to face the future by looking for things to create a remote external enclosure for someone. They are more independent, more love myself."

"I didn?t understand it myself at the time. But I?ve thought about it since, and I think it was because, knowing that your body would never be mine alone, I had to concentrate on conquering your soul."

"I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be."

"I discovered that the universe is uttered in his own language, sign language, and that in order to understand this language did not, we need only look around us open heart."

"I cannot tell Spring that: 'Come here now and stay as long as possible.' I can only say: 'Come and bless us with the hope of the people, and stay so long that that person can."

"I can't be in love with a man who lives in another world."

"I closed my eyes and let the music flow through me, cleansing my soul of all fear and sin and reminding me that I am always better than I think and stronger than I believe."

"I couldn?t have found God in the seminary, he thought, as he looked at the sunrise."

"I could have. What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but, didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything."

"I did not create a human being in order to inspect only for knowledge, but also in order to plow the land, and waiting for the rain, and wheat is grown, and harvested the grain, and knead bread."

"I could: the words will not reach days to grasp their meaning. Because there are things in every moment of our lives, it would get, but, at last, did not get."

"I do not want more from life. And you're forcing me to see wealth and horizons that I never knew. Now jump that I know and I know my immense possibilities. I'm going to feel worse than I felt before. Because I know I can have it all, and I will not."

"I don?t know anyone around here who would want to cross the desert just to see the Pyramids, said the merchant. They?re just a pile of stones. You could build one in your backyard."

"I do not mean to find something important in life, to give up all the other important things, not shun them."

"I do not want to open that door, because it repels like bridging the ocean. Just a small hole had enough water pressure in order to destroy everything, and flooding on the money ought to be drowned by the flooding."

"I don?t live in either my past or my future. I?m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you?ll be a happy man."

"I do not want to deal with my own darkness, I promised myself to myself, finally closing the door on the other. A drop in the third floor is just as much damage as dropping the hundredth floor."

"I don't have a ready-made formula to apply when I embark on a new book, but my guiding principles are discipline, compassion and a sincere eagerness to understand myself."

"I don?t live in either my past or my future. I?m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you?ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we?re living now."

"I do not think about what people will say later. Time is of the Hana and now Take advantage of it to the fullest extent."

"I don?t believe in the curative powers of suffering and tragedy; they happen because they?re part of life and shouldn?t be seen as a punishment."

"I don't know why we human beings are so obsessed with making rules about everything."

"I don't regret my painful times. I bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears"

"I don't see any reason why I should look for someone who never took the trouble to love me."

"I feel like starting to live again Edward. I feel like making the mistakes I've always wanted to make, but never had the courage to, facing up to the feelings of panic that might well come back, but whose presence will merely weary me, since I know I am not going to faint or die because of them. I can make new friends and teach them how to be crazy too in order to be wise. I'll tell them not to follow the manual of good behavior, but to discover their own lives, desires, adventures, and to live."

"I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm only interested in the present. If you can concentrate only on the present, you'll be a happy man."

"I don't regret the difficulties I experienced; I think they help helped me to become the person I am today. I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right."

"I fell asleep and dreamed that life was only Happiness. I woke and discovered that life was Duty. I did my Duty and discovered that life was Happiness."

"I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change. I'm used to the way I am."

"I felt that pain is a woman?s friend.? ?That is the danger.? ?I also felt that pain has it?s limits.? ?That is the salvation. Don?t forget that."

"I feel like making the mistakes I always wanted to make, but never had the courage to ... I can make new friends and teach them how to be crazy too in order to be wise. I'll tell them not to follow the manuals of good behavior but to discover their own lives, desires, adventures and to live."