Sometimes love blinds us, other times it let's us see.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory. But human beings are like that,' she thought. 'We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The pain of defeat is bitter to him; he suffers at indifference and becomes desperate with loneliness. After all this has passed, he licks his wounds and begins everything anew. A warrior knows that war is made of many battles: he goes on

Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.

Don't ask permission. If it does not work, you can apologize later.

Dreamers can't be tamed.