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“The universe sees your beauty; now see the beauty in others.”

“You are as the sun; the world is your stage; even without an audience, shine.”

“If they ask you how rich you are, tell them to look inside your heart.”

“A star would lose its value if it tried to be something else; just be yourself.”

“One who loves lives a thousand years in one day; one who hates only lives one day in a thousand years.”

“The darkest part of the storm paints the brightest part of the rainbow.”

“Life hands us storms so we can paint rainbows.”

“Heat makes things expand; that is why life sometimes throws us into a fiery furnace.”

“Could you imagine what a salmon would say if you asked it about its life? We think our lives are miserable? If only a salmon could speak. This fish spends half of its life swimming upstream, only to reach a body of water where either a bear catches it or it lays eggs only to die right afterward. What are we complaining about then? A salmon does what a salmon does. It doesn’t complain.”

“Crossing the prairie he had learned something that he knew to be a contradiction: that a constant sound—like the slithering of wind-blown grass—can become its own silence. Here at the edge of the mountain ranges another lesson became clear: this dichotomous land had made some claim upon his soul. The plains seemed to go on forever, the gently rolling land seeming to mirror the endless sky. The vastness of it all gave him his first seed of hope. Here, in this spacious country where a man was constantly dwarfed by the grandeur of his surroundings, he might learn to burn up his past and let the sparks scatter to the stars. Under this broad Western sky there seemed to be more directions, more possibilities . . . not just about what to do with his life . . . but also what kind of man to be.”

“Manchmal fĂĽhlte es sich so an, als wäre ich kurz davor. Als wĂĽrde meine ganze Welt im nächsten Moment implodieren und genau dann frage ich mich, ob meine Sehnsucht gut ist. SchlieĂźlich komme ich zu dem Entschluss, die TĂĽr wieder zuzuschlagen.”

“Life is not the problem, life is a solution. Those who think it to be endured are miserable souls and their views were shaped by negative energy, those who believe that there is anything better, are misled by their urge to live eternally and are apparent witnesses to the greatness of life since they want more of it and not less. I know that life under a human form is a gift, few creatures get the privilege to experience it as such; to whatever cause I had the chance to experience it in its fullness in a positive way, I am utterly grateful.”

“In moments when you feel that life is unbearably heavy, surrender yourself to the circumstances for a while! When life hits you hard and makes you fall down, take a rest on the ground for a while! Momentaneous non-resistance will give you time to gather your strength!”

“Don’t complain against life, it may hear you and double your suffering”

“Life has no map; it's made of random events, always caused by something beyond your control.”

“A small event as tiny as a drop of a pin can change the direction of your entire life”

“Then nothing became something, and I was born, and I wrought great havoc in the world in the time allotted to me, and I returned to nothingness”

“We live like sheep in line waiting to be slaughtered in a slaughterhouse. We eat and laugh and fight as we see those in front of us fall to the knife”

“Water in, water out until there is no water to run and the riverbed runs dry. That's life”

“Most of our waking life is make believe. If there was a way to record every dream that crosses our minds, the true nature of humans would be laid bare”

“You will never really think hard about your life until your oxygen mask is taken away from you when you are at the bed of the ocean. At that exact moment, your true self will be revealed. You will really know if you are a believer or an atheist, whether you really love life or hate it as you usually say. All your claims will be tested”

“Life is just a dream, to some it's a sweet dream, to others, a nightmare. But whatever it is, it's always short and dissipates quickly.”

“When you finally understand the meaning of life, you come to the conclusion it has none after all”