The latin word responsibility reveals its true meaning: the capacity to respond, to act. - Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.
Paulo CoelhoWe need to create a new revolution, and to do that, donโt waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be.
Paulo CoelhoIf you are never alone you cannot know yourself. And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.
Paulo CoelhoBecause of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous.
Paulo Coelho