Quotes from book

Aleph

“The only reason I don't throw myself into your arms, kiss you and make love with you now is that I lack the courage and am afraid of loving you.”

“Déjà vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bother with things that make no sense. It show that time doesn't pass. It's a leap into something we have already experienced and that is being repeated.”

“You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.”

“No one ever loses anyone. We are all one soul that needs to continue growing and developing in order for the world to carry on and for us all to meet once again.”

“We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.”

“It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own.”

“I will never be yours, and you will never be mine; nevertheless, I can honestly say: I love you, I love you, I love you.”

“Life is the train and not the station.”

“Visit your soul; don't visit your past.”

“True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do”

“God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change”

“To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive”

“People never leave, we are always here in our past and future lives.”

“It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.”

“You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.”

“Don't think about what you’ll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it.”

“I love you because all the loves in the world are like different rivers flowing into the same lake where they meet and are transformed into a single love that becomes rain and blesses the earth.”

“It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you’re capable of far more than you imagined. You live in this vast body called the Universe, which contains all the solutions and all the problems. Visit your soul; don’t visit your past. The Universe goes through many mutations and carries the past with it. We call each of those mutations a ‘life,’ but just as the cells in your body change and yet you remain the same, so time does not pass, it merely changes.”

“If I believe I will win, then victory will believe in me.”