“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, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better days ahead, as, I suspect is your case. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the fate awaits those who believe promises.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“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 back against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we're not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it's only at night - when we're alone and our wife or our husband or our school friend is asleep - that we can silently grieve over our own cowardice.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“Love, too, was just a question of time”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights...”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“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.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“It was all a matter of control. And Choice.
Nothing more, nothing less”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. ” Chantal”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“Her heart had already been broken many times over, and yet she still believed she was destined to meet the man of her life. ”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“Fear again. If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“The best way to weaken one's enemy was to get him to believe that you were on his side.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us. ”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“The story of one person is the story of all of humanity.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
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“There is no forgetting of ourselves but in the finding of our deeper, our true self—God's idea of us when he devised us—the Christ in us. Nothing but that self can displace the false, greedy, whining self, of which, most of us are so fond and proud. And that self no man can find for himself; seeing of himself he does not even know what to search for. "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God.”
― George MacDonald, quote from Sir Gibbie
“She had heard it was easy to blame others for one's own failures. But that wasn't exactly accurate. It was easy to blame herself for what had happened--hard to live with it.”
― Frank Beddor, quote from ArchEnemy
“The local natives were particularly curious to know why the English required such huge quantities of pepper and there was much scratching of heads until it was finally agreed that English houses were so cold that the walls were plastered with crushed pepper in order to produce heat.”
― Giles Milton, quote from Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
“She realised that letting someone go was setting them free.”
― Lisa Scottoline, quote from Save Me
“She had begun to understand how priesthoods were born, the necessity of sanctioned forms, rules and prohibitions, the moral filter defined by accepted notions of justice. And yet, she could also see how profoundly dangerous such an institution could become, as arbiters of morality, as dispensers of that justice. Faces like hooded vultures, guarding the door to the court, choosing who gets inside and who doesn’t. How soon before the first bag of silver changes hands? How soon before the first reprehensible criminal buys passage into the arms of the blind, unquestioning Redeemer? She could fashion such a church, could formalize the cult into a religion, and she could impose a harsh, unwavering sense of justice. But what of the next generation of priests and priestesses? And the one after that, and the next one? How long before the hard rules make that church a self-righteous, power-mongering tyranny? How long before corruption arrives, when the hidden heart of the religion is the simple fact that the Redeemer embraces everyone who comes before him? A fact virtually guaranteed to breed cynicism in the priesthood, and from such cynicism secular acquisitiveness would be inevitable. This loss was not just a loss of faith in the Redeemer. It was a loss of faith in religion itself.”
― Steven Erikson, quote from Toll the Hounds
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