Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.
Paulo CoelhoBeing afraid of having an endoscopy (if you're a man) and giving birth (if you're a woman).
Paulo CoelhoLove was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life from one moment to the next. But there's the other side of the coin, the second thing that could make a human being take a totally different course from one he or she had planned; and that was called despair. Yes, perhaps love really could transform someone, but despair did the job more quickly.
Paulo Coelho