Jason

“Sometimes she would bemoan to herself, she sensed that she was missing out on
something very important in life and that if she carried on as she was she would simply continue to repeat the same experiences over and over; and yet she didn't have the courage to change. She needed to be constantly struggling to discover her path. Now that she had experienced the dark-night
she knew that she did not want to find her way through it; and although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations.
Books were safer....”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“ALGERNON:
How are you, my dear Ernest? What brings you up to town?
JACK:
Oh, pleasure, pleasure! What else should bring one anywhere?”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“no one can possess a sunset like the one we saw that evening,' he went on, 'just as no one can possess an afternoon of rain beating against the window, or the serenity of a sleeping child, or the magical moment when the waves break on the rocks; no one can possess the beautiful things of this earth, but we can know them and love them. It is through such moments that God reveals himself to mankind. we are not the masters of the sun, or of the afternoon, or of the waves, or even of the vision of God - because we cannot possess ourselves”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the Language of the World.

You must not let up, even after having come this far… You must love the desert, but never trust it completely. Because the desert tests all men; it challenges every step, and kills those who become distracted.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist