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Esteem is like a flower, once seriously trodden or withered, doesn't return anymore.
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Esteem is like a flower, once seriously trodden or withered, doesn't return anymore.
Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are.
Serenity is not messing around or vanity, but high knowledge and love, it is the affermation of all realities, and surveillance on the side of every depth and prescipice. It is the secret of beauty and the authentic substance of every art.
There is nothing that art cannot express.
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
From now on, and for a few hundred years, the universe will help the warriors of light, and will obstacle those who have prejudice.
The energy of the earth has to be renewed.
Ideas need space.
The body and soul feel the need of new challenges.
The future has turned into the present, and all dreams, a part from those that imply preconceptions, will have the possibility to manifest themselves.
What is important shall persist; what is useless shall vanish.
But the warrior knows that it isn't his business to judge the dreams of the nex person, and doesn't waste time criticizing other people's decisions.
To believe in his path, he doesn't have to prove that the one chosen by the other is wrong.
'It's odd,' says the warrior of light to himself. 'I have met so many people who, at the first opportunity, try to show their very worst qualities. They hide their inner strength behind aggression; they hide their fear of loneliness behind an air of independence. They do not believe in their own abilities, but are constantly trumpeting their virtues.'
The warrior reads these messages in many of the men and women he meets. He is never taken in by appearances and makes a point of remaining silent when people try to impress him. And he uses the occasion to correct his own faults, for other people make an excellent mirror.
A warrior takes every opportunity to teach himself.
Many a man knocks about on the wall with his hammer, and believes that he hits the right nail on the head every time.
To have true unity, this must bear the heavier tension without breaking.
The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because he doesn't think.