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It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.
I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.
The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.