The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others.

I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams

I knew it,’ she says. ‘I knew I had met you before. I knew it the first time I saw your photograph. It’s as if we had to meet again at some point in this life. I talked to my friends about it, but they thought I was crazy, that thousands of people must say the same thing about thousands of other people every day. I thought they must be right, but life… life brought you to me. You came to find me, didn’t you?

Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.

Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.

Wagers and pacts are made with angels - or with devils.

Dream and love are just words - until you decide to experience them