WHAT I LEARNED IN LIFE, Paulo Coelho (August 24, 1947)

Live your life so that when you die, you are the one that is smiling and everyone there is crying.
The happiest people not necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything that comes their way.

The best future is based on the forgotten past ... you can't go on well in life until you let your past failures and heartaches go away. That no matter how good a person is, sometimes they can hurt you and because of this we must forgive. The circumstances and the environment influence us, but we are the one who is responsible for ourselves. It takes years to build trust and only seconds to destroy it.
We do not have to change friends if we understand that friends change. You have to control your own acts or they will control you. Sometimes the person you think will hurt you and make you fall is instead the one of a few who will help you to get up. It is not always enough to be forgiven by someone, in most cases you have to forgive yourself first. No matter in how many pieces your heart is broken, the world does not stop to fix it. Maybe GOD wants us to meet all the wrong people first before meeting the right one, so when we finally meet the right one we are grateful for that gift.

There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you wish you can take them
out of your dream and hug them for real. It is true we do not know what we have until we have lost it, but it is also true, we do not know  what we have been missing until it arrives to us.
It only takes a minute to offend someone, an hour to like someone, a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. That patience requires much practice. There are people who loves us, but simply do not know how to show it. When the door of happiness closes, another door opens, but often we look so long al the closed one that we do not see what was open for us. Do not look for appearances, they can be deceiving, do not go for wealth, even that can fade.
The best "kind of" a friend is the one with whom you can sit on a porch and then walk without saying a word and when you are leaving the place it feels as it was the best conversation you ever had.
Dream what you want, go wherever you want to go, because you have only one life and only one chance to do the things you want to do.