Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

Coincidence is the language of the stars, for something to happen, so many forces have to be put into action.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.

She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering, or the total absence of meaning in their lives.

Fear of failure leads to failure.