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 CoelhoOur contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.
Paulo CoelhoI gaze lovingly at "Hilal" a love that is reflected through time or what we imagine to be time, as in a mirror. She was never mine and never will be; that is how it is. We are both creators and creatures, but we are also puppets in God's hands, and there is a line we cannot cross, a line that was drawn for reasons we cannot know. We can approach and even dabble our toes in the river but we are forbidden to plunge in and let ourselves be carried along by the current.
Paulo CoelhoOften in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction
Paulo CoelhoWhy do we have to listen to our hearts?โ the boy asked, when they had made camp that day. โBecause, wherever your heart is, that is where youโll find your treasure.โ โBut my heart is agitated,โ the boy said. โIt has its dreams, it gets emotional, and itโs become passionate over a woman of the dessert. It asks things of me, and it keeps me from sleeping many nights when Iโm thinking about her.โ โWell, thatโs good. Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say.
Paulo Coelho