“…in life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. The builders might take years over their tasks, but one day, they finish what they’re doing. Then they find they’re hemmed in by their own walls. Life losses its meaning when the building stops. “
“Then there are those who plant. They endure storms and many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener’s constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure.”
“…it provides answers that few human beings ever manage to find in a whole lifetime, or perhaps because it evokes a romantic past.”
“…it isn’t true that you want to be alone.”
“Perhaps women needed men more than men needed women.”
“They worked hard and honestly, they feared God and they tried to help their fellow man. They did all these things because they had known love.”
“People had been trying to understand the universe through love ever since the beginning of time.”
“Disappointment, defeat, despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”
“Perhaps solitude has made man his madness worse.”
“She had meet people who had lost the flow of being alive because they could no longer fight against loneliness and had ended up becoming addicted to it.”
“…people who believed the world to be an undignified, inglorious place, and who spend their evenings and nights talking on and on about the mistakes others made.”
“…that trust is called Faith.”
“It only existed because she believed in it. Miracles couldn’t be explained either, but they existed for those who believe in them.”
“…for us each day is a dark night. None of us knows what might happen even the next time, and yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith.”
“That every moment in life is an act of faith.”
“And yet she didn’t have the courage to change. She needed to be constantly struggling to discover her path.”
“And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations.”
