Everything you need to know you have learned through your jo... - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

"But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here."

"to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world."

"But when he thought to complain about the burden of its weight, he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had withstood the cold of the dawn.We have to be prepared for change, he thought, and he was grateful for the jacket's weight and warmth.The jacket had a purpose, and so did the boy."

"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."

"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."