Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work. - Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

"If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him."

"Fortunate are those who take the first steps."

"If I must fall, may it be from a high place."

"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering."

"We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation."