“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.”
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 130
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“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.”
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 130 <!-- also p. 156 -->
Context: Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
Translation of Virgil's Aeneid (2007), Book I, lines 198–199 and 202–203
“Who suffers or has suffered has a different heart. A heart capable of helping and loving.”
Original: Chi soffre o ha sofferto ha un cuore diverso. Un cuore capace di aiutare ed amare.
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