In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.
Paulo CoelhoOne way or another, I have wound up destroying what I've loved. I've seen my dreams fall apart just when I seemed to achieve them. I always thought tat was just the way life was. My life anf everybody else's.
Paulo CoelhoWhen we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena "signs," the sceptics "coincidence," and psychologists "concentrated focus," although I've yet to find out what term historians should use).
Paulo Coelho