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È naturale che dubito. Non pratico una certezza, pratico una fede.
2/55
Senza la fede, la vita è come il cielo notturno: un trilione di asterischi e nessuna spiegazione.
3/55
Se paghi per averla è istruzione. Se fai pagare per darla è know-how.
4/55
Le memorie più felici sono di momenti che si sono conclusi quando avrebbero dovuto.
5/55
Quando tutto quello che valeva la pena di fare è stato fatto, ci saranno un sacco di cose da disfare.
6/55
Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.
7/55
Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.
8/55
Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don't fool.
9/55
In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.
10/55
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
11/55
Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha.
12/55
What we find in a soul mate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.
13/55
Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again.
14/55
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realise they were the big things.
15/55
To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.
16/55
In a soulmate we find not company, but a completed solitude.
17/55
We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.
18/55
Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.
19/55
The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.
20/55
The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.
21/55
There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.
22/55
Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish.
23/55
I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.
24/55
Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.
25/55
Sometimes we can't find the thing that will make us happy, because we can't let go of the thing that was supposed to.
26/55
A family is a group of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.
27/55
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
28/55
Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.
29/55
To truly know someone is to know the silence that stands for the thing they never speak of.
30/55
There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.
31/55
In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.
32/55
Better you don't search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find.
33/55
I have found that winning isn't everything and, in fact, in the relationships I most care about, it isn't anything.
34/55
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar
35/55
The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent.
The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artists.
36/55
Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.
37/55
If you cannot forgive and forget, pick one.
38/55
Sometimes in tragedy we find out life's purpose... The eye sheds a tear to find its focus.
39/55
Often, what seems like an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.
40/55
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
41/55
Worse than telling a lie is spending your whole life living true to that lie.
42/55
Never act until you have clearly answered the question: what happens if I do nothing?
43/55
Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.
44/55
There are days when you need someone who just wants to be your sunshine and not the air you breathe.
45/55
Never believe anything that requires you to hate people who do not believe it.
46/55
The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company; pets we allow into our solitude.
47/55
We can usually recognize the consequence of our actions. It is the consequence of our inaction that gets confused with the inevitable.
48/55
Di solito siamo in grado di riconoscere le conseguenze delle nostre azioni. È la conseguenza della nostra inazione che viene confusa con l'inevitabile.
49/55
Non agire fino a quando non hai risposto chiaramente alla domanda: cosa succederebbe se non facessi niente?
50/55
Ferire qualcuno che sai ti perdonerà è la cosa più scorretta di tutte.