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But beyond everything else, we are the decisions we make. In all their dimensions. With every choice, we take a step forward and abandon something along the way. Or take a step back, and we abandon whatever was to come.

Not only are we what we do; we’re also what we don’t do. What we say and what we silence. We are the questions we don’t dare to ask, and the answers that will never come and will float there forever, blown about by fear and uncertainty.

But it’s the searching that’s so hard for me.

Everything that’s lost can be found.

Because you can never move forward if you’re constantly looking back and I can’t let myself harbor doubts right now.

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.

All grown-ups were once children - although few of them remember it.

Sometimes the turns life takes are okay.

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
- The Little Prince

Not to mention the memories themselves. Don’t you think we distort them sometimes? Memories…they’re moldable; they change, depending on the perspective and mind of the person they belong to.