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“Two roads diverget in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that made all the difference”
― Paulo Coelho, L'Achimiste / La Sorcière de Portobello / Le Zahir

“When mounths close, it is because there's something important to be said”
― Paulo Coelho, L'Achimiste / La Sorcière de Portobello / Le Zahir

“You are what you believe yourself to be.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession. It cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“But, then, how many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment to the next? I don't just mean people, but our ideas and dreams too: we might survive a day, a week, a few years, but we're all condemned to lose. Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive the mortal blow. The perfect crime-for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found.”
― Paulo Coelho, L'Achimiste / La Sorcière de Portobello / Le Zahir

“No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing, even if one of them complains later on that they were used.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“love conquers all. And it isn't true. Sometimes love carries us into the abyss, taking with us—to make matters worse-the people we love.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“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.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“Everything is at once so simple and so complicated! It's simple because all it takes is a change of attitude:

I'm not going to look for happiness anymore.
From now on, I'm independent; I see life through my eyes and not through other peo-ple's. I'm going in search of the adventure of being alive.
And it's complicated: Why am I not looking for happiness when everyone has taught me that happiness is the only goal worth pursuing? Why am I going to risk taking a path that no one else is taking?

After all, what is happiness?
Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety,”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“Money brings happiness. Fine. In that case, everyone who earns enough to have a high standard of living would be able to stop working. But then they're more troubled than ever, as if they were afraid of losing everything. Money attracts money, that's true. Poverty might bring unhappiness, but money won't necessarily bring happiness.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“We're surrounded by Universal Desire.
It's not happiness, it's desire. And desires are never satisfied, because once they are, they cease to be desires.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“Let go of the idea that the path will lead you to your goal. The truth is that with each step we take, we arrive.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“everyone infects everyone else.
Groups can also destroy us,”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“When I die, burry mme standing because I spent all my life knees!!”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“- Are you happy ?

- Yes!

- but don't you want MORE ?!”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“Who I am NOT ?”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.”
― Alain de Botton, On Love

“We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.”
― Alain De Botton, On Love

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa