When you're afraid of change!
“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage
and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in
pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not
ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is
more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our
destiny.”
When you're misunderstood or maligned!
“Don’t explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you.”
When you feel disappointed about a failure!
“But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats.
No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in
the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing
what you’re fighting for.”
When you're unsure of who your true friends are!
“Our true friends are those who are with us when the good
things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False
friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive
faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their
miserable lives.”
After a break-up!
“When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive.”
When you grow envious of other people!
“Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don’t
give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I’m going to have a
husband, a home, two children, a house in the country. As long as
they’re busy doing that, they’re like bulls looking for the bullfighter:
they react instinctively, they blunder on, with no idea where the
target is. They get their car, sometimes they even get a Ferrari, and
they think that’s the meaning of life, and they never question it. Yet
their eyes betray the sadness that even they don’t know they carry in
their soul. Are you happy?”
When you feel overwhelmed by everything in your life!
“Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.”
When it’s time to let go!
“It is always important to know when something has
reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it
doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past
those moments in life that are over.”
When you're afraid to love!
“Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once,
twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new
situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always
takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what
nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we
lack the courage to reach out a hand and pluck the fruit from the
branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it,
even if it means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness. The
moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.”
When you feel like you can’t hold on anymore!
“It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.”
When your haters hate on you!
“The world is divided into those who understand me and
those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to
torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.”
When you feel suppressed by others’ expectations!
“Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow
a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by
another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other
people’s ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And
that is why they forget their dreams.”
When you lose something or somebody you love!
“Tragedy always brings about radical change in our lives,
a change that is associated with the same principle: loss. When faced
by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been; it’s
best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and
fill it with something new.”
When you find it so hard to forgive!
“I forgive the tears I was made to shed, I forgive the
pain and the disappointments, I forgive the betrayals and the lies, I
forgive the slanders and intrigues, I forgive the hatred and the
persecution, I forgive the blows that hurt me, I forgive the wrecked
dreams, I forgive the stillborn hopes, I forgive the hostility and
jealousy, I forgive the indifference and ill will, I forgive the
injustice carried out in the name of justice, I forgive the anger and
the cruelty, I forgive the neglect and the contempt, I forgive the world
and all its evils… I also forgive myself. May the misfortunes of the
past no longer weigh on my heart. Instead of pain and resentment, I
choose understanding and compassion. Instead of rebellion, I choose the
music from my violin. Instead of grief, I choose forgetting. Instead of
vengeance, I choose victory. I will be capable of loving, regardless of
whether I am loved in return, of giving, even when I have nothing, of
working happily, even in the midst of difficulties, of holding out my
hand, even when utterly alone and abandoned, of drying my tears, even
while I weep, of believing, even when no one believes in me… So it is.
So it will be.”
When you hit rockbottom!
“When I had nothing more to lose, I was given everything.
When I ceased to be who I am, I found myself. When I experienced
humiliation and yet kept on walking, I understood that I was free to
choose my destiny.”
