Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.
He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.
Success does not come from having one's work recognized by others. It is the fruit of the seed that you lovingly planted.
Many people don't allow themselves to love...because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past.
You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.
So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.
A Warrior of Light needs love. Love and affection are part of his nature. He makes use of solitude, but is not used by it.
Going to a charity tea party and thinking that you've done your bit toward putting an end to social inequity in the world.
None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.
But that moment exists - a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles.
Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration.
Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.
It's the oasis," said the camel driver. "Well, why don't we go there right now?" the boy asked. "Because we have to sleep.
Her heart had already been broken many times over, and yet she still believed she was destined to meet the man of her life.
Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.
Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.
Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant and rank.
It is necessary to run risks, to follow certain paths and to abandon others. No one can make a choice without feeling fear.
The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better."
Don't think about what you've left behind... everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.
Love is beyond time or rather love is both time and space but all focused on one single constantly evolving point-the Aleph.
Every person on the face of the earth has a gift. In some this reveals itself spontaneously, others have to work to find it.
Our human condition makes us tend to share only the best of ourselves, because we are always searching for love and approval
Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them.
I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.
We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.
I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.
And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.
Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable.
God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.
The most powerful hallucinogen in this planet is called Love. Highly Addictive! You will see and hear things that don't exist!
The Saint finds her true reason for living in unconditional love and in her ability to give without asking anything in return.
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.
Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.
We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.
But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best.
History will only change when we are able to use the energy of love, just as we use the energy of the wind, the seas, the atom.
What makes people weak? Their need for validation and recognition, their need to feel important. Don't get caught in this trap.
Courage. By beginning the journey with that word and continuing with faith in God, you will arrive wherever you need to arrive.
If you say it was the "last" time, it might well turn out to be the last. What you meant was "the most recent time I was here".
Anything that makes us forget who we are and what we want; that way we can work in order to produce, reproduce, and earn money.
Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.
I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies
Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.
To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.
In order to dominate the soul you must also learn to dominate the body. And in order to dominate the body you cannot fear pain.
God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.
When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force.
When everything seems to be going well and your dream is almost within your gasp, that is when you must be more alert than ever.
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.