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Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.

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Sometimes happiness is a blessing, but, generally, it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps us and sends us off in search of our dreams.

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Finally, the Witch justifies her existence by going in search of complete and limitless pleasure.

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The Virgin (and I'm not speaking here of a sexual virgin) is the one whose search springs from her complete independence, and everything she learns is the fruit of her ability to face challenges alone.

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I learned that the search for God is a Dark Night, that Faith is a Dark Night. And that's hardly a surprise really, because for us each day is a dark night. None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, and yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

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From that day on, it was the desert that would be important. She would look to it everyday, and would try to guess which star the boy was following in search of his treasure. She would have to send her kisses on the wind hoping that the wind would touch the boy's face, and would tell him that she was alive.

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Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested.

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That is how I would have acted before my accident, but now my personal history had become unimportant. It had stopped being history and was once more becoming a legend, a search, an adventure, a journey into and away from myself. I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.

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Leave your comfortable life and go in search of your kingdom.

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Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments — but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.

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The fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself. An no heart ever suffered when it went in search of its dreams.

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Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death.

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The search for happiness is more important than the need for pain.

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Go in search of your Gift. The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

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I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

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The moment we set off in search of love, it sets off in search of us. And saves us.

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Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams.

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There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve things at the shop. It was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.

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This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than he was in his former life. Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead; and then lead will have to turn itself into gold. That's what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.

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When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not enough. I know so many people who are brilliant speakers but are quite incapable of practising what they preach. It's one thing to describe a situation & quite another to experience it. I realised a long time ago that a warrior in search of his dream must take his inspiration from what he actually does & not from what he imagines himself doing.

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His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.

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A Search always starts with Beginner's Luck and ends with the Test of the Conqueror.

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