Poem by Paulo Coelho

Here are some of the things I learned in life:
- That no matter how good a person is, sometimes they can hurt you…and because of this we must forgive.
- It takes years to build trust and only seconds to destroy it.
- We don’t have to change friends if we understand that friends change.
- The circumstances and the environment influence our lives, but we are the one who are responsible for ourselves.
- That you have to control your acts, or the will control you.
- That patience requires much practice.
- That there are people who love us, but simply don’t know how to show it.
- That sometimes the person you think will hurt you and make you fall is instead one of the few who will help you get up.
- You should never tell a child that dreams are false, it would be a tragedy if they knew.
- It’s not always enough to be forgiven by someone. In most cases you have to forgive yourself first.
- That no matter is how many pieces your heart is broken..the world doesn’t 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.
- When the door of happiness closes, another opens but often we look so long at the closed one. We don’t see what was open for us.
- The best kind of friend is the kind in which you can sit on a porch and walk, without saying a word, and when you leave it feels like it was the best conversation you ever had.
- It’s true we don’t know what we have until we find it but it’s also true, we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives.
- It only takes a minute to offend someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone…but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
- Don’t look for appearances, they can be deceiving.
- Don’t go for wealth, because even that can fade.
- Find someone who makes you smile, because it only takes a smile to make a day better.
- Find what makes your heart smile.
- 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.
- Dream what you want, go wherever you want to go because you have only one life and one chance to do the things you want to do.
- The happiest people do not necessary have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything that comes their way.
- The best future is based on a forgotten past. You can’t go on well in life until you let go of past failures and heartaches.
- Live your life so that when you die, you’re the one that is smiling and everyone around you is crying.