If you want to be faithful to someone, start by being faithful to yourself.

Love rules, but no one knows where it has its throne; in order to know that secret place, you must first submit to Love.

And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.

Learn to recognize omens, and follow them

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.

In dire times you can lose joy, but you can't lose hope. Hope is your guide.

By the River Piedra I sat down and wept. There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river -- leaves, insects, the feathers of birds -- is transformed into the rocks that make the riverbed. If only I could tear out my heart and hurl it into the current, then my pain and longing would be over, and I could finally forget.