Italians cannot vote on international treaties.
To affirm is to make firm.
If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.
Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.
It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.
When people don't understand that being uncomfortable is part of the process of achievement, they use the discomfort as a reason not to do. They don't get what they want. We must learn to tolerate discomfort in order to grow.
There are far more good answers "out there" than there are in you.
There are no cartoons about happy marriages.
. . . fiction is made out of the writer's experience, his whole life from infancy on, everything he's thought and done and seen and read and dreamed. But experience isn't something you go and get - it's a gift, and the only prerequisite for receiving it is that you be open to it. A closed soul can have the most immense adventures, go through a civil war or a trip to the moon, and have nothing to show for all that "experience"; whereas the open soul can do wonders with nothing.
The trouble with anyone when they're unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don't know what to do about is that they can't see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isn't there anymore, you have to do something about it.