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Follow your heart, and listen when it speaks to you.
Susanna Tamaro / Novelist
Follow Your Heart
Heart
Speak
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The love withheld is always the love we long for most.
Susanna Tamaro / Novelist
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Love doesn't suit the lazy; sometimes it requires strong, precise actions.
Susanna Tamaro / Novelist
Love
Lazy
Strong
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life is not a race, but a shot on target: what counts is not the saving of time, but the ability to find a centre
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Race
Saving
Target
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To make mistakes is natural, but to go to one's grave without having understood them is to make life a pointless exercise.
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Exercise
Mistake
Natural
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Unshed tears leave a deposit on your heart. Eventually they form a crust around it and paralyze it, the way mineral deposits paralyze a washing machine.
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Heart
Machines
Tears
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Happiness always has an object... Depends on external things. Joy... Has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its burning is fueled by its own heart.
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Burning
Heart
Joy
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But in order to be strong, you have to love yourself, and in order to love yourself, you need thorough self-knowledge, you need to know everything about yourself, including your most hidden secrets, the ones most difficult to accept.
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Love You
Order
Strong
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In the course of that night I suddenly realized that there are many tiny windows between the body and the spirit. If they're open, emotions flow freely back and forth, but if they're partially closed, not much can filter through. Only love can fling them open all together, all at once, like a gust of wind.
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Love
Night
Wind
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You know, that's what I've regretted the most, that joy. Of course, later there were times when I felt happy, but happiness is to joy what an electric light bulb is to the sun. Happiness always has an object, you're happy because of something, it's a condition whose existence depends on external things. Joy, on the other hand, has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason; it's like the sun- its burning is fueled by its own heart.
Susanna Tamaro / Novelist
Hands
Heart
Light
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The only master that exists, the only one that's true and believable is your own conscience. To find it you have to stand in silence-alone and in silence-you have to stand on the naked earth, naked yourself and with nothing around you, as if you were already dead. You don't hear anything at first; the only thing you feel is terror, but then you begin to hear a voice, away in the background, far off; it's a calm voice, and maybe its banality gets on your nerves to begin with.
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Naked
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Voice
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Do you know what's one mistake we always make? Believing that life's immutable, that once you get on a particular track you have to follow it to the end of the line. But it appears that fate has more imagination than we do. Just when you think you're in a situation you can't escape from, when you've reached the lowest depths of total desperation, everything changes as fast as a gust of wind, everything's overturned; from one second to the next you find you're living a new life.
Susanna Tamaro / Novelist
Life
Believe
Mistake
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In the middle of a conversation, she'll frequently say something like, "Young people are heartless, they don't have any respect anymore." I nod agreement in hopes that she'll stop right there, but secretly I'm convinced that the heart is the same as it's always been; there's simply less hypocrisy, that's all. Young people aren't naturally selfish, any more than old folks are naturally wise. Your age doesn't have anything to do with whether you're sensitive or shallow; it's a question of the path your life takes.
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Wise
Heart
Selfish
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