But when your situation is hopeless, all you can do is turn the world upside down, transform it according to your wishes, and create anew.

Nature is woman's best friend, ' she [Yasmina] often said. 'If you're having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That's how a woman cures her fears'.

There are many ways to be beautiful. Fighting, swearing, and ignoring tradition could make a women irresistible.

This is what storytelling gets you. You make things up that aren't real, and then get upset when they don't turn out as expected.

The world is a prison for the believer and paradise for a non-believer.

Advertising signs: they con you into thinking you're the one That can do what's never been done That can win what's never been won Meantime life outside goes on all around you

Relaxation means releasing all concern and tension and letting the natural order of life flow through one's being.

Mozart's music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a higher, intensive life.

Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

Just as the winds whip up the sea, so does anger stir confusion in the mind.

Only when you can understand yourself as All Pervading Consciousness can you possibly understand that all the universe is an emanation of your mind. Everything that you see comes out of you.

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