… hurdle is that thing that makes you either get over an adversity or fall right into it.
How…
… is the most important part of know-how.
The…
… habit might make the monk, but not his manners.
If…
… yesterday’s vices are today’s habits, what tomorrow?
Arrogance…
… is the resource of those who have none.
Followers…
… go on their path.
Leaders create it.
Heroes change it.
Virtues…
… are flaws we corrected.
Don’t…
… fear the future because of your past.
Change the present.
Nature…
… is the visible side of the divine.
Feelings are the invisible.
Teachers…
… are students who never stop learning.
To…
… be is not to be if not to be-come.
Values …
… belong to the Universe.
Society belongs to the Earth.
First are eternal.
Second rise and fall.
The…
… only reason why you’ve been given a body is for the soul to expand through mastering it.
Better…
… regret for saying too much than too little.
Problems…
… and solutions arise from the same will.
Love…
… and completeness go hand in hand, don’t look for each other.
Failure …
… doesn’t exist.
Only exist misplaced efforts or misplaced goals.
Changing…
… is somehow dying.
But if you are meant to be a butterfly, you need to let go being a caterpillar first, and then a chrysalis.
Good…
… things come to those who (don’t) wait (anymore).
Problems…
… You work to not create them, or you fight against them.
When …
… your only concern about doing something bad is being caught, you have a clue it’s time to look for therapy.
Good…
… words are great.
When followed by good actions.
Life…
… is simple.
Do your best, expect the best.
Instinct…
… is that thing that tells you what is going on before you acknowledge it.
Some…
… people are like a dream.
Strange, confusing, and you hardly get how the whole story started.
Optimism…
… is the art of putting effort in what you want.
When…
… you fail you have two options.
You call it quit and you close on a failure.
You grow from your failure and work it out towards success.
Some…
… people are in your life to show you how you don’t want to be.
Some others, to show you what you want to be.
Some, along the way, to remind you both.
Feeling…
… like a sixty years old is a recurrent thing since the age of twelve to fifty-nine.
After, it’s the other way around, except for the clock.
The…
… things we don’t want to see will keep punching us till the day we will either see them or the bruises.
Friends …
… are like champagne.
When it’s cheap it’s never good.
A…
… person without emotions is like a rosebush without roses.
Quite dull, and if you get close, it hurts you with its thorns.
Serenity…
… is when you feel good in your own company.
Happiness is when you share this feeling with someone.
Unbalance …
… means something in your life is not on the right side.
We…
… fear change, and even more its end, death.
A…
… liar is someone who sends out a boomerang thinking it’ll never come back.
The…
… biggest the prize, the hardest the challenge.
When…
… people are jealous of what you have they try either to belittle or to ruin it.
Your…
… life is your own creation.
Mind the pieces.
A…
… step back to the past and you realise how wonderful your present is.
Sadly, when you realise it, it’s gone.
We…
… live as many lives as we need to learn to live.
If…
… you lose a battle you can win another one, but if you give up fighting you lose the war.
Look…
… for peace, you will find happiness.
Look for happiness, you will never find peace.
You…
… can have everything if you are ready to lose a bit of your Self.
Always…
… the lowest downs precede the highest highs.
And viceversa.
You…
… can win over everything, if you accept it.
Truth…
… is one.
If it becomes “your” truth, you twisted it.
A…
… surprise is like hot spice on food.
The food might be nice, but it’s not going to make you jump without a bit of spice on it.
Nothing…
… gives you a better insight on yourself than seeing yourself from the outside.
When…
… you don’t cherish the brightness of the present as it deserves, you deserve the darkness of the past you keep alive.
Religion…
… rules where spirituality fails.
Life…
… is a puzzle that always ends up putting back together its scrambled pieces.
Patience…
… is like a cracked vase filled with water.
It’s just a question of time before it gets empty.
I…
… don’t regret cutting ties.
I regret I didn’t do it earlier.
Pain…
… is made partly of yesterday’s events and partly of tomorrow’s fears.
Crying…
… one can cry alone.
Laughing needs two.
Life…
… is like a book.
If you skip any page, sooner or later you will have to start it all over again.
Only…
… pain teaches better than love.
It’s…
… all about me.
And I can’t believe one can be so egocentric to say otherwise.
What…
… you have today is what you built yesterday.
What you will have tomorrow is what you are building today.
My…
… responsibility ends where starts yours.
No…
… use escaping from yourself.
Your shadow is always behind you.
A…
… pessimist complains about the rain.
An optimist hopes it stops.
A realist opens an umbrella.
Every…
… end is a beginning.
Age…
… is just a number.
Increasing.
If…
… we were made to work, we wouldn’t feel tired after it.
Do…
… It Yourself is the answer to the question: “do you want it to be done well?”
Patience…
… is the virtue of people who have plenty of time and very little to do to spend it.
Next…
… time you ask yourself “why”, remember: the reason of what is happening is often just delayed.
When…
… anger talks, anger replies.
Darkness…
… exists for light to shine.
You…
… want your guy to do something for you at light speed?
Ask another guy in front of him.
Confusion…
… is having all the answers.
Scrambled.
Happiness…
… is beautiful.
Unhappiness is magnetic.
The…
… hardest challenges reserve the best rewards.
Selfishness…
… is other people worst flaw.
We…
… are born with all the answers.
We grow up forgetting them.
We grow old trying to remember what the questions were at all.
We …
… fall in love with what we want to see.
We fall out when we run out of willingness.
The…
… horizon is as wide as your sight.
Life…
… is what happens when you are busy thinking of it.
Conscience…
… is the filter between what you want to do and what is good to do.
Some…
… storms are stronger than you.
Let yourself be swept away.
At the end, you will hopefully land in a better place.
Anxiety…
… is the flip side of expectation.
Life…
… is a mystery that doesn’t need to be solved.
Wisdom…
… is when you know how to master your impulses.
Love…
… is a weird labyrinth.
One heart gets lost in there and regrets to have ever got in.
Two hearts get lost in there and they never want to get out.
When…
… some people make a promise, you know exactly what they are not going to do.
Trust…
… is like a pyramid of cards.
Every added card takes time and care.
One mistake and everything crumbles.
When…
… the going gets tough, leave it.
Some easier one will show up.
Thoughts…
… are like clouds.
Too many create a storm.
When…
… you keep ignoring the hurdles on your path, you keep falling.
Two…
… broken pots don’t make a whole one.
Culture…
… comes half from others, half from our willingness to learn from them.
Poetry…
… is what remains after you take away all the unnecessary words.
Mistakes…
… You grow from them or you repeat them.
In…
… “true love” there is “true” and there is “love”.
If you separate one from the other you lose both.
Once…
… I had a dream.
Then I woke up.
When…
… we don’t acknowledge our responsibilities we put the first stone on the road to disaster.
Don’t…
… ask yourself where you are going.
Ask yourself why.
You…
… didn’t need to be perfect to please me.
You needed to be real.
