Coelho that is!! Im in love with the gray haired 64 year old rio de janeiro born author... Not only because of his good looks (i have a thing for salt n pepper haired oldER men, think Jose Murinho, former chelsea coach) but his mind tooo... Everything he writes just inspires me, mind you, i have only read one book of his, Like the flowing river, and he instantly became one of my favourite authors. Anyway i "stumbled" upon one of his many quotes while surfing the net and i love all of them but the first one is my all time favourite, every time i read it, it just moves me..I later learned that its from his bestseller, The Alchemist, Im on a hunt for this book.
"We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parentheses in eternity."I've also added some i really liked and found inspirational...Hope you like 'em too!!
"Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart."
"Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some only to be sipped, but with the others, drink the whole bottle."
"A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If i fall, may it be from the highest."
"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."
"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?"
"At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss."
"The future belongs to God, and it is only He who reveals it, under extraordinary circumstances. How do i guess at the future? Based on the omens of the present. The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, that which comes later will also be better. Forget about the future and live each day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day itself, brings with it, an eternity"
"I have learned that the search of God is a dark night, that faith is a dark night. And that's hardly a surprise really, because for us each day is a dark night. None of us knows what might even happen the next minute, and yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith."
"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."
"The Marquis De Sade said that 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. When a boss humiliates an employee, or a man humiliates his wife, he is merely being cowardly or taking his revenge on life, they are people who have never dared to look into the depths of their soul, never attempted to know the origin of that desire to unleash the wild beast, or to understand that sex, pain and love are all extreme experiences. Only those who know those frontiers know life: everything else is just passing time, repeating the same tasks, growing old and dying without ever having discovered what we are doing here."
"Playing the part of a charitable soul was only for those who were afraid of taking a stand in life. It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others and fight for your rights. It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the courage to fight against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we are not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it's only at night - when we are alone and our wife or our husband or our school friend is asleep - that we can silently grieve over our own cowardice."
"We are all a part of the divine spark. All have a purpose in creation and that purpose is called love. That love, however, shouldn't be concentrated in just one person, it should be scattered throughout the world, waiting to be discovered. Wake up that love. What is gone cannot return. And what is about to arrive needs to be recognised."
"When you are washing up, pray. Be thankful that there are plates to be washed; that means there was food, that you fed someone, that you lavished care on one or more people, that you cooked and laid the table..
There are women who say: "i'm not doing the washing up, let the men do it". Fine, let the men do it if they want to, but that has nothing to do with equality...I'd be accused of working against the feminist cause. Nonsense! As if washing up or wearing a bra or have someone open or close a door for me could be humiliating to me as a woman. The fact is, i love it when someone opens the door for me.....in my soul it is written: "I'm being treated like a goddess. I'm a queen"."
hope u liked! xx
