“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.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“For those who are not frightened by the solitude, everything will have a different taste.
In solitude, they will discover the love that might otherwise arrive unnoticed.
In solitude, they will understand and respect the love that left them.
In solitude, they will be able to decide whether it is worth asking that lost love to come back or if they should simply let it go and set off along a new path.
In solitude, they will learn that saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue.
And those who are alone at this moment, need never be frightened by the words of the devil: ‘You’re wasting your time.’
Or by the chief demon’s even more potent words: ‘No one cares about you.’
The Divine Energy is listening to us when we speak to other people, but also when we are still and silent and able to accept solitude as a blessing.
And when we achieve that harmony, we receive more than we asked for.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“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.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“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.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“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.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning
I am not here to tell you that defeat is a part of life: we all know that. Only the defeated know Love. Because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles – and generally lose.
I am here to tell you that there are people who have never been defeated.
They are the ones who never fought.
They managed to avoid scars, humiliations, feelings of helplessness, as well as those moments when even warriors doubt the existence of God.’’
Manuscript Found In Accra – Paulo Coelho”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“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.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks:
“Aren’t you tired of waiting?”
“Yes,” answers the rose, “but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“The simplest things in life are the most extraordinary. Let them reveal themselves.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“What was broken will never be the same again.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“Because we managed to keep our heart open, despite the pain.
Because we realized that the person who left us did not take the sun with them or leave darkness in their place.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“You might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold?
The tree says to the leaf:
"That’s the cycle of life. You may think you’re going to die, but you live on in me. It’s thanks to you that I’m alive, because I can breathe. It’s also thanks to you that I have felt loved, because I was able to give shade to the weary traveller. Your sap is in my sap; we are one thing.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“None of us can know what tomorrow will hold, because each day has its good and its bad moments.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“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.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“Beware of anyone who tries to please you all the time.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirror, they also reflect the person looking into them.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“When everything seems to be going well and your dream is almost within your gasp, that is when you must be more alert than ever.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“You will be loved and respected only if you love and respect yourself.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“In life's most significant moments we are always alone.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“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.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
“Al atravesar un periodo difícil, recuerda: aunque hayas perdido grandes batallas, sobreviviste y estás ahí.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Akras manuskripts
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“One of them is that a bastard is always a bastard and if I can hurt a bastard by digging up shit about him, then he deserves it.”
― Stieg Larsson, quote from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
“We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest, struggling at length to blind unreasoning panic - now mercifully stilled, thank God - might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion as it had before.”
― Daphne du Maurier, quote from Rebecca
“We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.”
― Betty Smith, quote from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. Sorrow, lord. Feeling like shit.
It? I ast.
Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It.
But what do it look like? I ast.
Don't look like nothing, she say. It ain't a picture show. It ain't something you can look at apart from anything else, including yourself. I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.
Shug a beautiful something, let me tell you. She frown a little, look out cross the yard, lean back in her chair, look like a big rose. She say, My first step from the old white man was trees. Then air. Then birds. Then other people. But one day when I was sitting quiet and feeling like a motherless child, which I was, it come to me: that feeling of being part of everything, not separate
at all. I knew that if I cut a tree, my arm would bleed. And I laughed and I cried and I run all around the house. I knew just what it was. In fact, when it happen, you can't miss it. It sort of like you know what, she say, grinning and rubbing high up on my thigh.
Shug! I say.
Oh, she say. God love all them feelings. That's some of the best stuff God did. And when you know God loves 'em you enjoys 'em a lot more. You can just relax, go with everything that's going, and praise God by liking what you like.
God don't think it dirty? I ast.
Naw, she say. God made it. Listen, God love everything you love? and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration.
You saying God vain? I ast.
Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
What it do when it pissed off? I ast.
Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
Yeah? I say.
Yeah, she say. It always making little surprises and springing them on us when us least expect.
You mean it want to be loved, just like the bible say.
Yes, Celie, she say. Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
Well, us talk and talk bout God, but I'm still adrift. Trying to chase that old white man out of my head. I been so busy thinking bout him I never truly notice nothing God make. Not a blade of corn (how it do that?) not the color purple (where it come from?). Not the little wildflowers. Nothing. Now that my eyes opening, I feels like a fool. Next to any little scrub of a bush in my yard, Mr. ____s evil sort of shrink. But not altogether. Still, it is like Shug say, You have to git man off your eyeball, before you can see anything a'tall.
Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere.
Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up flowers, wind,water, a big rock.
But this hard work, let me tell you. He been there so long, he don't want to budge. He threaten lightening, floods and earthquakes. Us fight. I hardly pray at all. Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.
Amen”
― Alice Walker, quote from The Color Purple
“There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.”
― Roald Dahl, quote from Matilda
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