You have to take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
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Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment helps us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments - but all of this is transitory; it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.
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Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
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Break the glass, please - and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.
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We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
~Paulo Coelho 'By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept'
