After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of a… - Paulo Coelho

It isn’t the absolute truth about life and death, but the thing that helps us to live and confront the challenges of day-to-day life. It isn’t what we learn from books, which serves only to fuel futile arguments about what happened or will happen; it is the knowledge that lives in the hearts of men and women of good will.... I am a learned man and yet...still don’t know quite what to say to you. But I will ask the Divine Energy to purify my heart.

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it

And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.