Source: The Valkyries (1992), p.132.
Context: The parents always insisted on telling their child that their secret friends didn't exist — perhaps because they had forgotten that they too had spoken to their angel at one time. Or, who knows, perhaps they thought they lived in a world where there was no longer any place for angels. Disenchanted, the angels had returned to God's side, knowing that they could no longer impose their presence.
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Source: The Valkyries (1992), p. 133.
“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”
Paulo Coelho
book
The Zahir
Variant: When someone leaves, its because someone else is about to arrive- I'll find love again.
Source: The Zahir
“If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new Hello.
Paulo Coehlo”
Variant: If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
“Beware when making a woman cry. God is counting her tears.”
Paulo Coelho
book
Adultery
Source: Adultery
“You are what you believe yourself to be.”
Source: The Witch of Portobello (2007), p. 152.
Context: You are what you believe yourself to be.
Don't be like those people who believe in "positive thinking" and tell themselves that they're loved and strong and capable. You don't need to do that because you know it already. And when you doubt it — which happens, I think, quite often at this stage of evolution — do as I suggested. Instead of trying to prove that you're better than you think, just laugh. Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it. Now go back and meet all those people who think you know everything. Convince yourself that they're right, because we all know everything, it's merely a question of believing.
Believe.
Variant: When each day is the same as the nest it's because people fail to reconize the good things that happen in thier lives everyday the sunrises
Source: The Alchemist
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 128
Variant: That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 97.
Context: In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
“… and I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be.”
Source: The Fifth Mountain
“Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other.”
Source: The Winner Stands Alone
“The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.
And to save us.”
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Context: Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to reach out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if it means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.
The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.
And to save us.
“The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t.”
Paulo Coelho
book
Aleph
In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.
Aleph (2011)