By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Źródło: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Kontekst: You have to take risks … We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, God gives us the sun — and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist — that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us. But that moment exists — a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles.

“Many people don't allow themselves to love… because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past.”

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Paulo Coelho

Źródło: Veronika Decides to Die

“It is not time that changes man nor knowledge the only thing that can change someone's mind is love.”

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Paulo Coelho książka Jedenaście minut

Źródło: Eleven Minutes

“Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days.”

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Paulo Coelho książka Brida

Źródło: Brida

“The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.
And to save us.”

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Paulo Coelho książka Na brzegu rzeki Piedry usiadłam i płakałam

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Źródło: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Kontekst: 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.

“It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.”

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Paulo Coelho książka Alef

Źródło: Aleph

“Love is not to be found in someone else but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person.”

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Paulo Coelho książka Jedenaście minut

Źródło: Eleven Minutes

“If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.”

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Paulo Coelho książka Alchemik

Źródło: The Alchemist (1988), p. 102.