One day, I’m going to write a travel guide containing only maps and addresses of hotels, and with the rest of the pages blank. That way people will have to make their own itinerary, to discover for themselves restaurants, monuments, and all the magnificent things that every city has, but which are never mentioned because “the history we have been taught” does not include them under the heading Things You Must See.
(Source: blogut, via quote-book)
Close some doors. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere.
Paulo Coelho
That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.
Paulo Coelho(Source: quote-book)
Don’t explain. People only hear what they want to hear.
Paulo Coelho(Source: kari-shma, via quote-book)
Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person.
Paulo Coelho - Eleven Minutes(Source: quote-book)
Happy Birthday, Mom! I love you!
“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
I admire how you dealt with the last few years and came out stronger. Change was the theme of your past years. You survived this heartbreak and that’s the most important thing. You’re a great mom and you don’t look any day older than 35. ;)
When he looked into her dark eyes, and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and silence, he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke – the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert.
Paulo Coelho | The Alchemist(Source: blogut, via quote-book)
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.
Paulo Coelho(Source: curiae, via heartbeatsandhandclaps)
We pretend to be strong because we are weak.
Paulo Coelho(Source: misswallflower)
The beauty of truth: whether it is bad or good, it is liberating.
Paulo Coelho(Source: thresca, via quote-book)
