One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.
This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there’s no need at all to understand what’s happening, because everything happens within you.
In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.
Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.
The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.
You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.
If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.
Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn’t what romantic songs tell us it is – love simply is.
Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.
When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.
Ever since time began, people have recognized their true Love by the light in their eyes.
She didn’t need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger
In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it’s another to think that yours is the only path.
When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.
Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.
Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions.
You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.
It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.
Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That’s all you need.
Life moves very fast. It rushes from Heaven to Hell in a matter of seconds.
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.
Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.
What’s the world’s greatest lie?… 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.
If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it’s our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.
It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory
I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.
Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have togive up all the other important things.
Try to find pleasure in the speed that you’re not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you’re the one who must decide how you handle it.
Only two things can reveal life’s great secrets: suffering and love.
Go and get your things,’ he said. ‘Dreams mean work.
Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt.
God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change
Sometimes the best of gods gift’s arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly
Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.
Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it’s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It’s your mission on earth.
Only children believe they’re capable of everything.
Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.
People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.
Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.
So long as you do no harm to another, change your opinion once in a while. Contradict yourself without being embarrassed. This is your right. It doesn’t matter what others think -because that’s what they will think, in any case.
One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.
We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us.
Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.
Isn’t wine prohibited here?” the boy asked. “It’s not what enters men’s mouths that’s evil,” said the alchemist. “It’s what comes out of their mouths that is.
Once someone asked me, “What do you want to be your epitaph?” So I said, “Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.
A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way.
God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.
God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don’t abandon me in the middle ofthis adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.
It wasn’t necessary to know your own demons in order to find God.
the grandeur of God reveals itself through simple things
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.
But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.
In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.
No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it
Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because we don’t know what to do with it.
Because I don’t live in either my past or my future.I’m interested only in the present”.
A Warrior of Light values a child’s eyes because they are able to look at the world without bitterness. When he wants to find out if the person beside him is worthy of his trust, he tries to see him as a child would
Life doesn´t come with any guarantees. You have to risk it to get the biscuit.” – The Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo –
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When you want something, he entire universe conspires to help you achieve it.
People are capable at anytime in their lives,of doing what they dream of
The problem is that they don’t even realize that they’re walking a new road every day. They don’t see that the fields are new and the seasons change. All they think about is food and water
The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.
La felicidad es una bendición, pero generalmente es también una conquista.
I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.
to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.
Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person’s life its true meaning.
They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born.
In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those who decide to die?
You don’t need to climb a mountain to know that it’s high.
But we must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there is no rules. (….) The heart decides, and what it decides is all that really matters.
If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry.
None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.
Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.
In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else’s path is wrong.
Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us,…
because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.
ليس لأحدنا أن يتنبّأ بأحداث اللحظة القادمة ، ومع ذلك ترانا نمضي قُدُماً ، لأننا نمتلك الثقة ، ولأننا نتحلّى بالإيمان
Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.
if a book isn’t self-explanatory, then it isn’t worth reading.
Writing is easy: just stare at the screen of your computer until a tear drops on your keyboard.
Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.
Love is only a word, until we decide to let it possess us with all its force.Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning.Don’t give up. Remember, it’s always the last key on the key ring that opens the door.
Although I have the colors, only the Lord can mix them with such harmony.
there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it’s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It’s your mission on earth.
To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
People need not fear the unknown if they have a capable of achieving what they need and what
People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.
There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.
We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation.
He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence.
What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace
Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life
But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that “good enough” is very different from “best.
I ask myself: Are Defeats necessary ?Well,necessary or not, they happen.When we first begin fighting for our dream, we’ve no experience and make many mistakes.The Secret of life, though,is to fall seven times and to get up eight times !
Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.
Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.
Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.
I’m not a body with a soul, I’m a soul that has a visible part called the body.
Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.
Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.
… “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 Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo –
Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees
I am going to sit here in the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. And if you go away, I will follow you–until you tell me to go away. Then I’ll leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life..
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture
But this payment goes well beyond my generosity,” the monk responded.”Don’t say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.
I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.
Don’t you think you’re quite young?”I’m twenty-one,’ said Brida. ‘If I wanted to start learning ballet, I’d be conseidered too old.
When you are loved, you can do anything in creation.
The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That’s why we go to movies and say, “Oh, the book is better.
I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.
The spiritual path can only be traveled through the daily experience of love.
He felt the urge to go into the desert, to see if it’s silence held the answers to his questions.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
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.
Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.
And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.
If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.
But human beings are like that, she thought. We’ve replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.
Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you´ll find your treasure
…and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.
I will lament your departure. I will hide my shame for having erred on some obscure point, for thinking that the justice of war is the same of peacetime.
We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.
Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.
He could always go back to be a shepherd, but he had a dream. That’s doesn’t happen to just anyone.
What are you good at?” asked the owner.”Going after what I believe in.” That was the only possible reply; she had spent her life in pursuit of what she believed in. The only problem was that she believed in something different everyday.
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose – and commit myself to – what is best for me.
If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.
The smell of baking bread wafts up to my cell and reminds me of the days I walked freely in the cafes. This tears me apart more than my fear of death or the solitude in which I now find myself.
There’s nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life,the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.
It’s the oasis,” said the camel driver.”Well, why don’t we go there right now?” the boy asked.”Because we have to sleep.
If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the other become angry.
At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn’t. The magic momentsgo unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.
When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there’s no need at all to understand what’s happening, because everything happens within you.
fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.
it’s that sense of powerlessness that destroyed my soul. i cannot be as good as i would like to be.nor as bad as i think i need to be.i think you have the same doubts that your goodness was not rewarded
An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life.
We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn’t stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn’t disappear; it’s transformed into the clean surface.
So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.
…the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.
But why all these questions?Because I’m in love and I’m afraid of suffering.Don’t be afraid, the only way to avoid that suffering would be to refuse to love.
I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy.-Lukas Jessen-Petersen
I’ve been through all this before,’ he says to his heart.“ ‘Yes, you have been through all this before,’ replies his heart. ‘But you have never been beyond it.
As he was about to climb yet another dune, his heart whispered, “Be aware of the place where you are brought to tears. That’s where I am, and thats where your treasure is.
You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life.
It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge. So it’s not surprising that kings would talk to shepherds.
A responsible Warrior is not someone who takes the weight of the world on his shoulders, but someone who has learned to deal with the challenges of the moment.
If I could, I’d write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence
I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.
The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.
The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.
But the Warrior never allows himself to be discouraged.
the world was in the hands of those who had courage to dream and to realize their dreams
We can’t choose our lives, but we can decide what to do with the joys or griefs we’re given.
It’s better to lose some of battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you’re fighting for.
Remember that human wisdom is madness in the eyes of God. But if we listen to the child who lives in our soul, our eyes will grow bright.
We’re living in an age in which everything is allowed, and democracy is being devoured and destroyed by that limitless freedom.
It’s whatever the majority deems it to be. It’s not necessarily the best or the most logical, but it’s the one that has become adapted to the desires of society as a whole.
Society had more and more rules, and laws that contradicted the rules, and new rules that contradicted the laws. People felt too frightened to take even a step outside the invisible regulations that guided everyone’s lives.
Even from a distance, their eyes conveyed the strength of their souls. And their eyes spoke of death.
Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.
To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only obligation
The act if living one’s own destiny includes a series of stages that are far beyond our understanding, whose objective is always to… make us learn the lessons necessary to fulfill our own destiny.
You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it’s because it wasn’t true love… the love that speaks the Language of the World.
I had a dream, and I met with a king. I sold crystal and crossed the desert. And, because the tribes declared war, I went to the well, seeking the alchemist. So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it’s because it wasn’t true love.
That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny.
To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only real obligation.
And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren’t the case, you wouldn’t have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.
Athena always lived between two worlds: what she felt was true and what she as been taught by her faith.
Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I felt as if nature was in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul.
See, it’s not that I’m jealous of others. I just don’t understand why they can be happy and I can’t.
I had never heard her sound so calm, so resigned to her fate. She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn’t go on.
Basically, everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went through, and they react completely differently. We looked for the easiest way out: a separate reality
A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.
It was a prayer that he had never said before, because it was a prayer without words or pleas.
Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.
Life moves very fast. it rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.
Stay close 2 those who r by ur side in happy times, because they do not harbor jealousy or envy in their hearts, only joy 2 c u happy…
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
Then the Warrior realizes that these repeated experiences have but one aim: to teach him what he does not want to learn.
No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people’s eyes, to reveal the marvels around.
When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.
Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.
Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.
And then they want the person to change. If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives.
She would consider each day a miracle – which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.
This is the present moment. Learn how to gobble it up without fear or guilt.
Don’t try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference
Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul, because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take.
No matter how you are feeling, get up every morning and prepare to let your light shine forth.
They spent days, nights, weeks and months talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice
Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.
Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.
Life becomes interesting for the possibility to fulfill a dream.
Never stop dreaming,” the old king had said.”Follow the omens.
that’s why I want you to continue toward your goal. If you have to wait until the war is over, then wait. But if you have to go before then, go on in pursuit of your dream.
Then, sometime during the fourth year, the omens will abandon you, because you’ve stopped listening to them.
…you are different from me, because you want to realize your dreams, I just want to dream…I’m afraid it will all be a disappointment, so I prefer just to dream…
A dream is always risky, for there is a price to pay.
We make a lot of detours, but we’re always heading for the same destination
Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated … Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.
I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.
If we are alone, we become more alone. Life is strange
I think that if we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.
And if I’m alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.
I’ve noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.
Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time
Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.
If a person is living out his Personal Legend, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Man needs what’s worst in him in order to achieve what’s best in him.
Dont try to be useful. Try to be yourself; that is enough, and that makes all the difference.
you don’t need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago,
Because all my life I’ve learned to suffer in silence – Athena
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
This last week has been a little hell for both of us simply because I didn’t understand my own feelings. And because I can’t understand them, I blame her for provoking in me feelings that make my world seem suddenly unsafe.
But they both agreed that it’s always nice to know that your wife is desired by another man, although they wouldn’t go any further than that.
I saw that she didn’t want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it’s because there’s something important to be said.
But how to explain suffering because of a man? It’s not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they’re in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness – only misery.
Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.
She was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn’t go on.
Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.
It isn’y explanations that carry us forward, it’s our desire to go on.
Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
And to those who believe that adventures are i say try routine: it kills you far more quickly.
The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.
And when I think about it, I guess it is true that people always arrive at the right moment at the place where someone awaits them
Now she knew where to find me, if it was written that we would meet again, we would. The important thing is to allow fate to intervene in our lives and to decide what is best for everyone.
I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfill our destiny, but our fate is sealed.
The act of living one’s own destiny includes a series of stages that are far beyond our understanding, whose objective is always to… make us learn the lessons necessary to fulfill our own destiny.
What’s the world’s greatest lie?’ the boy asked, completely surprised.’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.
All this was new to me. Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move towards the unknown – even when we don’t want to and we think we don’t need to.
In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.
It’s now what enters men’s mouths that’s evil. It’s what comes out of their mouths that is.
Men who have nothing to lose never give a thought for eternal life.
Evil would never bring Good, however much they wanted to believe that it would. By the time they discovered the truth, it would be too late.
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.
There are two kinds of idiots – those who don’t take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.
To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn’t afraid of facing challenges.
Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.
People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.
If theater is ritual, then dance is too… It’s as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.
Jealously would kill you from inside, if you water the plant of jealousy with anger instead of hard work
Don’t allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily
Feelings do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don’t know, but it’s a world where there’s no time, so space, no frontiers.
She hated the love she had been given, because it had asked for nothing in return, which was absurd, unreal, against the laws of nature
Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses.
When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn’t know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.
Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.
The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment.
People had been trying to understand the universe through love ever since the beginning of time.
Don’t close your eyes to the Universe and then complain: ‘It’s dark.
When you’re in love, you’re capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love is the key to understanding of all the the mysteries.
Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?””Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet.
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.
Those who don’t understand their personal legends will fail to comprehend its teachings.
…one dies of thirst just when the palm tress have appeared on the horizon.
Stay close 2 those who sing, tell stories, and enjoy life, and those eyes sparkle wiz happiness is contagious and will always manage 2 find a solution, whereas logic can find only an explanation 4 the mistake made.” me!! 😉
Success does not come from having one’s work recognized by others. It is the fruit of a seed that you lovingly planted.
Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.
…the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. This doesn’t mean that we should do what others expect us to do, but it helps us to understand ourselves better.
we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.
But emotions were, indeed, wild horses and they demanded to be heard. Brida let them run free for a while until they grew tired
She was fighting for something, she feltalive and capable of responding to the challenges facing her.
For her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.
Then I realize that words like “optimism” and “hope” which appear in all those self-help books that claim they’ll make us more confident and better to cope with life, are just that: words.
Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it’s over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but before that happens, houses will be destroyed, centuries- old trees will topple, paradises will be flooded.
God, in his infinite wisdom, hid Hell in the middle of Paradise, to keep us on our toes.
Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.
If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps…
You could have died later on, you could have died after peace had been declared. But, in any case, you were going to die.
Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.
it’s best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be
And he always checks that he carries three things with him: faith, hope, and love.
When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times.
All we have to do is understand that we’re all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning
I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.
Those who try to kill the body violate God’s law. Those who try to kill the soul also violate God’s law, even though their crime is less visible to others.”By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
solitude is not absence of love, but its complement
At life’s most significant moments, we are always alone
Why is patience so important?””Because it makes us pay attention.
To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only real obligation.
It’s only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work
Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.
Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.
Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself–free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on.
I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.
It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it’s another to think yours is the only path.
I’m afraid of committing myself,” she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none.
His way isn’t the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we’re both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.
They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn’t fit in with what they were used to believing.
love is just a further impetus, not something that will prevent us going forward. We do not realize that those who genuinely wish us well want us to be happy and are prepared to accompany us on that journey.
Women, when they kill themselves, choose far more romantic methods – like slashing their wrists or taking an overdose of sleeping pills.Abandoned princesses and Hollywood actresses have provided numerous examples of this.
The Universe Conspires….to get what you truly desire
Stop thinking all the time that you’re in the way, that you’re bothering the person next to you. If people don’t like it, they can complain. And if they don’t have courage to complain, that’s their problem.
Those who don’t return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become a part of everything… they become the Soul of the World.
That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.
One other question. Would it be acceptable to destroy a universe in the name of a greater love?” The waiter laughs. “Are you God or just gay?” “Neither, but thank you for your answer.
One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.
If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man.
A Warrior of Light does not postpone making decisions.
Writing means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.
And the camel driver had said, to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.
But as far as true goodness was concerned, that didn’t exist – not in the land of cowardly men.
When we want something, we have to have a clear purpose in mind for the thing that we want. The only reason for seeking a reward is to know what to do with that reward
I know you don’t love me. But I’m going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that are worth fighting for the end. You are worth it.
The unavoidable has touched the life of every human being on the face of the earth. Some have rebounded, others have given up–but all of us have felt the wings of tragedy brushing against us.
Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.
I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.
A shepherd may like to travel, but he should never forget his sheep.
We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.
Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of live, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are all able to know everything, because it’s all written there.
Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are all able to know everything, because it’s all written there.
… intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it’s all written there.
all you had to do was to keep your insanity undercontrol
Stay insane, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention. Concentrate on this flower and allow the real “I” to reveal itself.
She didn’t quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.
The rain is falling ever harder and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I’m drenched but I can’t move.
Fear exists before and after, but not while the shots are being fired, because, at that moment, you see men at their very limit, capable of the most heroic of actions and the most inhumane.
A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.
Do no be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how the war ends.
Do not be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how the war ends.
People are all crazy… but the craziest are the ones who never allow themselves to be crazy.
In war, the key to victory is the ability to surprise one’s opponent.
The srongest love is the love which is not afraid to show the weakness
The completion is always more difficult that the beginning
Don’t try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.
That’s who I am, a man who has been both good and evil throughout his life. pg 14
I lost the most precious thing a man can have: my faith in my fellow man. I laughed and I wept at God’s irony, at the absurd way he had chosen to demonstrate to me that I was an instrument of Good and Evil.
You’re not trying to find the answer to a question, you’re simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe: that everyone is evil.
…she was betting on the fact that people were basically good, despite all the Evil in the world.
These are people who accept the fire of the Holy Spirit,’ he said, ‘the fire that is left behind but that is used by so few people to light their candles.
I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn’t. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.
Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.
But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you’re fighting for
What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one’s name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.
But I’m afraid that it would be all be a disappointment, so I prefer just to dream about it.
Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don’t want to do so.
If you start out by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work toward getting it.
It’s a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.
In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.
Here was the opportunity to free herself from all those identical days and nights. pg 30
If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.
A disciple…can never imitate his guide’s steps. You have your own way of living your life, of dealing with problems, and of winning. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
life is really generous to those who pursue their Personal Legend
Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.
I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.
I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.
Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.
I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you’re really tired. It’s my relaxing time.
You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.
The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.
However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.