A Straight Line To Wander Through

“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.”

You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you. You need patience and courage, my friend… And above all, make a new beginning. Begin with the basics: what is it that torments you so?

“There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t even started wondering about yet.”

“It was the approaching dawn that held him in its spell, that ‘promise kept each morning’ that the earth, along with the town and his own person, would emerge from beneath the shadow of the night, and that the delicate glimmer of dawn would yield to the bright light of day…”

“You are your own beginning. Every day, every hour, every minute, you start again. There is no point wishing you were someone else, you are who you are—start there.”

In a country where possessions counted for everything, we had no belongings except our stories.

“There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body, and to forget our paths, which take us always to the same places. This is the time to cross the river: and if we don’t dare to do it, we will have stayed forever beneath ourselves.”

The wise man makes his life monotonous, for then even the tiniest incident becomes imbued with great significance.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

Face adversity promptly and without flinching, and you will reduce its impact.