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Life stops when the fear of the unknown is stronger than momentum.

- Hafid Aggoune –

Many of our fears are the thickness of a tissue and one single brave step would be enough to cross them.

- Brendan Francis Behan –

Where is God? God is in reality.

- JL –

It isn’t necessary to know where we are going; it’s necessary to have a vision.

- Robert Lepage –

Between black and white, there are millions of nuances of gray.

- JL –

Life is like a bicycle; we must move forward not to lose balance.

- Albert Einstein –

Saying "I don’t know", I humbly open myself to apprenticeship.

- JL –

It’s only when the sky is dark enough that we can see the stars.

- Martin Luther King Jr. –

The only way to "cure" my past is to change my perception of it in the present time.

- JL –

This is not time which passes; it’s we who pass.

- Unknown –

The woes are "sprints"; happiness a marathon.

- JL –

Outside, beyond what’s right and wrong, there’s a huge field; we will meet there...

- Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Romi –

My shit experiences always become fertilizer to grow my dreams.

- JL –

Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose them of sight when we’re chasing them.

- Oscar Wilde –

I take advantage of the night to delight me...

- JL –

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The future you don’t have to expect but to enable it.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -

I continue to compose because it tires me less than to rest.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -

Evolution doesn’t know the reverse gear.

- Boris Cyrulnik -

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

         - Anatole France –

I sometimes feel like a leaf on a torrent. It can twirl, swirl and turn around but it still goes ahead.

- Daniel Boone -

We don’t get rid of a habit by flanking it through the window; we must get it down the stairs step by step.

- Mark Twain -

In one year you’ll wish to have started today.

- Karen Lamb -

Make your dream devour your life so that life doesn’t devour your dream.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -

Life is the only career which interests me.

- Erik Orsenna -
 

Unpack your suitcases wherever you are.

- Marie-Pier Charron -

Do you want to live happy? Travel with two bags; one to give and one to receive.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -

To keep dreaming I create new benchmarks.

- JL -

Heaven is not a place; it's a state of mind.

- Georges Boularier-

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If it’s not a “Hell, Yes!” right away then it’s a “Hell, No!”

- Alain Cohen –

Don't be afraid of happiness; it's just a good time to pass!

- Romain Gary –

Writing is the best way to speak without being interrupted.

- Jules Renard –

We can become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

- Max De Pree –

Being an artist is wanting to create; being a creator is doing it.

- Diane De Serres –

I wouldn't stay in the past because today is a "present"...

- JL –

We always hug the one we love and the art of writing is the art of extending the arms...

- Denis Diderot –

Everything is change, not for no longer be, but to become what is not still.

- Epictetus –

Obstacles are our friends; they show us how to improve.

- Robert Lepage –

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where I renew my springs that never dry up.

- Pearl Buck –

We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

- Oscar Wilde –

Only the one who takes the road knows the depth of the holes.

- Unknown –

I went through sickness, pain, suffering and more difficult times. These experiences help us, provided we get out of it.

- JL –  (inspired by Pippo Delbono)

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Each event that strikes me gives me a thrust to move forward.

- Martin Gray –

Wherever you are is the entry point.

- Kabir –

Instead of “Why me?” ask yourself “What now?”

- Julia Cameron –

Failure is the foundation of success.

- Lao Tzu –

The strength of the true detours is not to move away, but to achieve one’s goal with greater accuracy.

- Benjamin Pelletier –

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid of standing still.

- Chinese Saying –

Traumas are neither large nor small. That depends on the meaning for each one.

- Boris Cyrulnik –

Writing is the mental key of my control room.

- J.L. –

Neurosis and wisdom are made of the same stuff...

- Unnamed –

You cannot teach without learning simultaneously.

- Unknown –

One may take away what you have, but not what you give.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry –

Creation is the antidote to the chaos which surrounds me.

- Anonym –

We can’t have everything, but we can give everything...

- Geneviève Desrosiers –