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At That Moment, It Seemed To Him That Time Stood Still, And The Soul Of The World Surged Within Him. When He Looked Into Her Dark Eyes, And Saw That Her Lips Were Poised Between A Laugh And Silence, He Learned The Most Important Part Of The Language That All The World Spoke — The Language That Everyone On Earth Was Capable Of Understanding In Their Heart. It Was Love. Something Older Than Humanity, More Ancient Than The Desert. Something That Exerted The Same Force Whenever Two Pairs Of Eyes Met, As Had Theirs Here At The Well.

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At That Moment, It Seemed To Him That Time Stood Still, And The Soul Of The World Surged Within Him. When He Looked Into Her Dark Eyes, And Saw That Her Lips Were Poised Between A Laugh And Silence, He Learned The Most Important Part Of The Language That All The World Spoke — The Language That Everyone On Earth Was Capable Of Understanding In Their Heart. It Was Love. Something Older Than Humanity, More Ancient Than The Desert. Something That Exerted The Same Force Whenever Two Pairs Of Eyes Met, As Had Theirs Here At The Well.

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Emotions Are Wild Horses. It Is Not Explanations That Carry Us Forward, But Our Will To Go On.

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In All The 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 An Ounce Of Truth In It. The Further Off They Are, The Closer To The Heart Are All Those Feelings That We Try To Repress And Forget.

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Life Takes Us By Surprise And Orders Us To Move Toward The Unknown -even When We Don't Want To And When We Think We Don't Need To.

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Travel Is Never A Matter Of Money But Of Courage. I Spent A Large Part Of My Youth Traveling The World As A Hippie. And What Money Did I Have Then? None. I Barely Had Enough To Pay For My Fare. But I Still Consider Those To Have Been The Best Years Of My Youth. The Great Lessons I Learned Has Been Precisely Those That My Journeys Had Taught Me.

The River Adapts Itself To Whatever Route Prove Possible, But The River Never Forgets Its One Objective: The Sea. So Fragile At Its Source, It Gradually Gathers The Strength Of The Other Rivers In Encounters. And, After A Certain Point, Its Power Is Absolute.

If A Man We Don't Know Phones Us Up One Day And Talks A Little, Makes No Suggestions, Says Nothing Special, But Nevertheless Pays Us The Kind Of Attention We Rarely Receive, We're Quite Capable Of Going To Bed With Him That Night, Feeling Relatively In Love. That's What We Women Are Like, And There's Nothing Wrong With That - It's The Nature Of The Female To Open Herself To Love Easily.

It Was All A Matter Of Control. And Choice. Nothing More, Nothing Less

You Say They Create Their Own Reality," Said Veronika, "but What Is Reality?

Still, Being Fragile Creatures, Humans Always Try To Hide From Themselves The Certainty That They Will Die. They Do Not See That It Is Death Itself That Motivates Them To Do The Best Things In Their Lives. They Are Afraid To Step Into The Dark, Afraid Of The Unknown, And Their Only Way Of Conquering That Fear Is To Ignore The Fact That Their Days Are Numbered. They Do Not See That With An Awareness Of Death, They Would Be Able To Be Even More Daring, To Go Much Further In Their Daily Conquests, Because Then They Would Have Nothing To Lose- For Death Itself Is Inevitable.

The Universe Conspires To Help The Dreamer

Magical Places Are Always Beautiful And Deserve To Be Contemplated ... Always Stay On The Bridge Between The Invisible And The Visible.

Maybe God Created The Desert So That Man Could Appreciate The Date Trees

She Wasn't A Victim Of Fate, She Was Running Her Own Risks, Pushing Beyond Her Own Limits, Experiencing Things Which, One Day, In The Silence Of Her Heart, In The Tedium Of Old Age, She Would Remember Almost With Nostalgia - However Absurd That Might Seem.

Life Is Too Short For Us To Keep Important Words, For Example, 'i Love You', Locked In Our Hearts.

Life Is Too Short

Even Stopped Clocks Are Right Twice A Day.

Love Is A Disease No One Wants To Get Rid Of. Those Who Catch It Never Try To Get Better, And Those Who Suffer Do Not Wish To Be Cured.

Only By Accepting Our Desires Can We Have An Idea Of Who We Are.

The Energy That Many People Call Love, Is, In Fact, The Raw Material From Which The Universe Was Built.

Pain, Loss And Separation Are Inevitable On The Path Of Love, And The Only Way Of Avoiding Them Is By Deciding Not To Take That Path At All. In Order Not To Suffer, You Have To Renounce Love.it Was Like Putting Out Your Own Eyes In Order Not To See The Bad Things In Life.

Anyone Who Is Observant, Who Discovers The Person They Have Always Dreamed Of, Knows That Sexual Energy Comes Into Play Before Sex Even Takes Place. The Greatest Pleasure Isn't Sex, But The Passion With Which It Is Practiced. When The Passion Is Intense, Then Sex Joins In To Complete The Dance, But It Is Never The Principal Aim.

You Shouldn't Have Asked," I Said. "love Doesn't Ask Many Questions, Because If We Stop To Think We Become Fearful. It's An Inexplicable Fear; It's Difficult Even To Describe It. Maybe It's The Fear Of Being Scorned, Of Not Being Accepted, Or Of Breaking The Spell. It's Ridiculous, But That's The Way It Is. That's Why You Don't Ask-you Act. As You've Said Many Times, You Have To Take Risks.

In Order For Us To Liberate The Energy Of Our Strength, Our Weakness Must First Have A Chance To Reveal Itself.

It Takes A Huge Effort To Free Yourself From Memory, But When You Succeed, You Start To Realize That You're Capable Of Far More Than You Imagined.

Scars Speak More Loudly Than The Sword That Caused Them.

None Of Us Knows What Might Happen Even The Next Minute, Yet Still We Go Forward. Because We Trust. Because We Have Faith.

She Was Doing It Because She Had Nothing To Lose, Because Her Life Was One Of Constant, Day To Day Frustration.

Nothing To Lose

We Cannot All See The Dreams In The Same Way.

It Wasn't A Dance, But The Complete Absence Of Noise And Movement, The Silence, That Brought Me In Contact With Myself.

We, Their Hearts, Become Fearful Just Thinking Of Loved Ones Who Go Away Forever, Or Of Moments That Could Have Been Good But Weren't, Or Of Moments That Could Have Been Found But Were Forever Hidden In The Sands.

As He Looked Up At The Clouds Or Down At The Precipice, He Realized That This Woman Was The Most Important Thing In His Life; That She Was The Explanation, The Sole Reason For The Existence Of Those Rocks, That Sky, That Winter. If She Were Not There With Him, It Wouldn't Matter If All The Angels Of Heaven Came Flying Down To Comfort Him--paradise Would Make No Sense.

Once Upon A Time, There Was A Prostitute Called Maria. Wait A Minute. "once Upon A Time" Is How All The Best Children's Stories Begin, And "prostitute" Is A Word For Adults. How Can I Start A Book With This Apparent Contradiction? But Since, At Every Moment Of Our Lives, We All Have One Foot In A Fairy Tale And The Other In The Abyss, Let's Keep That Beginning.

Once In A Mental Hospital, A Person Grows Used To The The Freedom That Exists In The World Of Insanity And Becomes Addicted To It.

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If We Don't Face Our Fears, Our Fears Will Chase Us Forever.

The Warrior Of The Light Sits Around A Fire With His Companions.

The World We Live In Will Be Either Better Or Worse Depending On Whether We Become Better Or Worse.

At Some Point, We Have Each Said Through Our Tears, “i’m Suffering For A Love That’s Not Worth It.” We Suffer Because We Feel We Are Giving More Than We Receive. We Suffer Because Our Love Is Going Unrecognized. We Suffer Because We Are Unable To Impose Our Own Rules. But Ultimately There Is No Good Reason For Our Suffering, For In Every Love Lies The Seed Of Our Growth.

... But The Greatest Wisdom Is Blinded By The Glare Of Vanity.

Problems Of The Heart Always Bruised The Soul.

Be Realistic: Go For The Impossible!

No One Is Entirely Good Or Evil; That Is What The Warrior Thinks When He Has A New Opponent.

A Boat Is Safe In The Harbor. But This Is Not The Purpose Of A Boat.

The Only Way To Make The Right Decision Is To Find Out Which Is The Wrong Decision, To Examine That Other Path Without Fear, And Only Then Decide.

Be Blessed. And Just As You Are Transforming Your Own Life, May You Transform The Lives Of Those Around You. When They Ask, Do Not Forget To Give. When They Knock At Your Door, Be Sure To Open It. When They Lose Something And Come To You, Do Whatever You Can To Help Them Find What They Have Lost. First, Though, Ask; Knock At The Door And Find What Is Missing In Your Life. A Hunter Always Knows What To Expect - Eat Or Be Eaten.

All The World Needs Are Examples Of People Capable Of Living Out Their Dreams And Fighting For Their Ideas.

I Cry Very Easily. It Can Be A Movie, A Phone Conversation, A Sunset - Tears Are Words Waiting To Be Written.

Life Is The Train And Not The Station.

He Tries To Show Each Person How Much They Are Capable Of Achieving.

Every New Book Is A Challenge. I Could, Of Course, Have Stopped Many Years Ago If It Was Only For Money. But No, It Is About Building Bridges Among Cultures, Different Cultures... When You Want Someone To Understand Something That Is Not Forcefully In Your Culture, You Use Stories.

You're Mistaken, Father. You Were In Paradise, But You Didn't Recognize It. It's The Same With Most People In This World; They Seek Suffering In The Most Joyous Of Places Because They Think They Are Unworthy Of Happiness.

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