"Write your plans in pencil and give God the eraser."

"The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times."

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

"When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way."

"Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused."

"The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility."

"Friendship is not about whom you know the longest. It is about who came and never left."

"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."

"You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his personal legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it’s because it wasn’t a true love… The love that speaks the language of the world."

"If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal."

"Life has a way of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once."

"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are."

"There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there."

"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."

"Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it – which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? I don’t know."

"Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart."

"Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly."

"Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time."

"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity."

"One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now."

"Every blessing ignored becomes a curse."

"How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it."

"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering."

"The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us."

"Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided."

"You are what you believe yourself to be."

"In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire."

"Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near."

"Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear."

"Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows."

"A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires."

"Never explain. Your friends won’t need it. And haters will continue to hate (because they also hate themselves)."

"So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you."

"Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure."

"A life without a cause is a life without effect."

"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."

"After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn’t bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it’s a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it’s sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we’re doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony."

"Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle."

"We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body."

"When each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises."

"When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself."

"People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of."

"The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort."

"Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own."

"The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter."

"I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now."

"When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny."

"I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life."

"It said that all people who are happy have God within them."

"People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same."

"If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain."

"Don’t allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily."

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

"Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life."

"You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it."

"No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it."

"Miracles only happen if you believe in miracles."

"Travel is never a matter of money but of courage."

"We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path."

"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

"We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to."

"Tears are words that need to be written."

"The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion."

"No matter how you feel today, get up, dress up and show up."

"No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes."

"The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people’s opinions."

"It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future."

"Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."

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

"You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen."

"You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point where you can stop making an effort."

"Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time."

"Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him."

"None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith."

"Fortunate are those who take the first steps."

"When you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward."

"Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life"

"Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures."

"Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate, and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed."

"We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity."

"If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it."

"To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation."

"When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision."

"Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don’t be afraid to be the best."

"No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it."

"Your eyes show the strength of your soul."

"Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn’t have the courage to say yes to life?"

"Family love is the most beautiful of all loves."

"Men think more about returning home than about leaving."

"Those who never take risks can only see other people’s failures."

"Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives."

"God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered."

"You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say. That way, you'll never have to fear an unanticipated blow."

"When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive."

"What's the world's greatest lie?… It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate."

"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience."

"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday; you develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

"If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello."

"Life has taught me that only through family can we achieve true happiness: having someone who loves us unconditionally and whom we also love with all our might"

"People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves."