The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better." -- The Alchemist

What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want? You want to justify your life, to live it as intensely as possible. That is at once a trap and a source of ecstasy. Try to be alert to that danger and experience the joy and the adventure of being that woman who is beyond the image reflected in the mirror.

A warrior knows that the farthest-flung star in the Universe reveals itself in the things around him.

it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be

A warrior takes every opportunity to teach himself.

If you want to understand love, first learn about freedom.

We must study things we will never use, but which someone told us were important to know.