“That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.”
“Such are the lives of those who haven’t the courage to risk: solutions are generously provided by God, but people always seek complicated explanations, and end up doing nothing.”
“They were looking only for gold,"his companion answered. "They were seeking the treasure of their Personal Legend, without wanting actually to live out the Personal Legend.”
“If we seek something, that same thing is seeking us.”
“Everyone believes the world's greatest lie..." says the mysterious old man."What is the world's greatest lie?" the little boy asks.The old man replies, "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.”
“The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.”