My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer, the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering s worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with Eternity.

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

Break a pact. Accept forgiveness. Make a bet.

In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die? No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.

You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others.

and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.

Each Warrior of the Light contains within him the spark of God.