To say "no" is painful, but much better than a "yes" that brings regrets.

You will not find the treasure of your Personal Legend unless you want to live that Legend.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

God's decisions are always mysterious, but they are always in our favour.

Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.

Why do we have to listen to our hearts?” the boy asked, when they had made camp that day. “Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you’ll find your treasure.” “But my heart is agitated,” the boy said. “It has its dreams, it gets emotional, and it’s become passionate over a woman of the dessert. It asks things of me, and it keeps me from sleeping many nights when I’m thinking about her.” “Well, that’s good. Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say.

when fate is very generous with us, there is always a well into which all our dreams can tumble.