Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
True love stories never have endings.
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves.
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still...we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
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