Is there anything more real than what we have created in our minds? - Ben Okri

So books should be lived to be read.
And life should be dreamt to be lived.

Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest. Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That’s the way life goes.

Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.