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“In this life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve - it's what you take!”

movie Magnolia

“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author

“I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen but as the years wasted on nothing ever did unless I caused it.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“Transformation is often more about UNLEARNING than learning.”

Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest

Source: Falling Upward

“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

“Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable.”

Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest

Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.”

Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest

Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“We often convince ourselves that we cannot change, that we cannot overcome the circumstances of our lives. That is simply not true. You have been blessed with immeasurable power to make positive changes in your life.
But you can't just wish it, you can't just hope it, you can't just want it… you have to LIVE it, BE it, DO it.”

Steve Maraboli (1975)

“Death frees from the fear of dying”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

“The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes.”

Paulo Coelho book The Winner Stands Alone

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

“Collective madness is called sanity..”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

“All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step”

Paulo Coelho book The Zahir

Source: The Zahir

“If you rely only on experience, you’ll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

I know a lot of people who feel they have an identity only when they’re talking about their problems. That way, they exist, because their problems are linked to what they judge to be their history.
Aleph (2011)

“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”

Jean-Luc Godard (1930) French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic

Cited in: Paul Bowden, Telling It Like It Is https://books.google.nl/books?id=w8_p1eGVj8gC&pg=PA182&lpg=PA182&dq=%22Art+attracts+us+only+by+what+it+reveals+of+our+most+secret+self%22+%22jean+luc+godard%22&source=bl&ots=2zIpIhvB_1&sig=uImQSWu8ATehPk0hAhfck-ZowJc&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjwydLuqp_LAhVhDJoKHdrjACcQ6AEIUjAG#v=onepage&q=%22Art%20attracts%20us%20only%20by%20what%20it%20reveals%20of%20our%20most%20secret%20self%22%20%22jean%20luc%20godard%22&f=false, 2011, p. 182 <br class="br">Source: "What Is Cinema?" Les Amis du Cinéma (Paris, October 1, 1952).