They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

Quote by Antonio Porchia

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I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.

If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.

He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled...

He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled...

That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.

That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one...

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one...

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there...

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there...

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.

If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your...

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your...

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.