If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.
Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.
Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.
Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything!
Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.
Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.
You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.
Truths may clash without contradicting each other.
It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.
Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak.
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.
A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.
I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.
A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit the forces of nature. He stares with expectancy for the coming of the dawn the way a gardener awaits the coming of spring. He looks forward to port as a promised land, and truth for him is what lives in the stars.
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