Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when that person looks back – and at some point everyone looks back – she will hear her heart saying, “What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of losing those talents. So this is your heritage; the certainty that you wasted your life.

Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.

She was doing it because she had nothing to lose, because her life was one of constant, day to day frustration.

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be.

you only know yourself when you go beyond your limits

One can abandon one's personal legend for a time, as long as one does not forget about it entirely and returns to it as soon as possible.

We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that's of no use to the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It's always new.