You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn’t have the courage to say “yes” to life?

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Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

Don't forget your dreams.

He asked why people are sad. “That’s simple,” says the old man. “They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people’s ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.

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Paulo Coelho

The ways, our ways.

Life has many ways of testing a person’s will – either by having nothing happen at all, or by having everything happen at once.

― Paulo Coelho