The future belongs to God, and it is only He who reveals it, under extraordinary circumstances.
***The Alchemist
When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
***The Alchemist
When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.
***The Alchemist
And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have on meaning.
***The Alchemist
I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called body.
***Eleven Minutes
Humans 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.
***Eleven Minutes
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.
***Eleven Minutes
Sex has come to be used as some kind of a drug: in order to escape reality, to forget about problems, to relax. And like all drugs, this is a harmful and destructive practice.
***Eleven Minutes
Love was necessary if one was to experience pleasure in bed.
***Eleven Minutes
***Eleven Minutes
At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in fairy tale and the other in the abyss.
***Eleven Minutes
Sometimes happiness is a blessing - but generally it's a conquest. The magic moment of the day changes us and makes us take off in the direction of our dreams.
***By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
***By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
At some point, we have each said through our tears, "I 'm suffering for a love that's not worth it." We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules.
***By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
"I could have". What does this phrase mean. At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.
***By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
It's better to lose some battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you are fighting for.
***By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
***The Zahir
"That's simple," says the old man. "They the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they dream."
***The Zahir
A fatally wounded soldier never asks the medical team: "Please save me!". His last words are usually: "Tell my wife and son that I love them." At the last moment, they speak of love.
***The Zahir
"Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should be sipped, but others drink the whole bottle." "How will I know which is which?".
"By the taste. You can only know a good wine if have first tasted a bad one."
***Brida
We can also allow our Soulmate to pass us by, without accepting him or her, or even noticing. Then we will need another incarnation in order to find that Soulmate. And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself : loneliness.
***Brida
Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.
***Brida
The best Bible is nature and life itself.
***Brida
Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.
*** The Devil and Miss Prym
Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.
***The Devil and Miss Prym
Life can seem either very long or very short; according to how you live it.
***The Devil and Miss Prym
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