Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

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Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

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You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.

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If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

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It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.

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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

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As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

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Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything!

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If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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