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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 93204bb | She wasn't afraid of difficulties what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular path. Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live and she was thinking that, in future, she might regret the choices she made now. "I am afraid of committing myself" she thought to herself she wanted to follow all possible paths and ended up following none." | Paulo Coelho | ||
| ecb9b80 | Becoming conscious of three important things: First, as soon as people decide to confront a problem, they realize that they are far more capable than they thought they were. Second, all energy and all knowledge come from the same unknown source, which we usually call God. What I've tried to do in my life, ever since I first started out on what I believe to be my path, is to honour that energy, to connect up with it every day, to allow myse.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 172f92a | When he looked into her dark eyes, and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and silence, he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke -- the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. Something that exerted the same force whenever two pairs of eyes met, as had theirs here at the well. She smiled.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| d8f5a9d | The acomodador or giving-up point: there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us failing to progress: a trauma, a particularly bitter defeat, a disappointment in love, even a victory that we did not quite understand, can make cowards of us and prevent us from moving on. As part of the process of increasing his hidden powers, the shaman must first free himself from that giving-up point and, to do so, he must review his whi.. | moving-on the-zahir paulo-coelho | Paulo Coelho | |
| 2939a07 | Charisma -- the divine force that manifests itself in men and women. The supernatural power we don't need to show to anyone because everyone can see it, even usually insensitive people. But it only happens when we're naked, when we die to the world and are reborn to ourselves | Paulo Coelho | ||
| ebb380f | l tSdWqy lw`wd, fl`lm mly bh: thr, khlS 'bdy, Hb srmdy. y`tqd b`D l'shkhS b'nhm jdyrwn bGdq lw`wd. wytqbWl lb`D lakhr 'y shy yDmn lhm 'yman 'fDl | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 19e02dc | A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way. | life truth divided | Paulo Coelho | |
| 65b4182 | In a war, the first casualty is human dignity. | war | Paulo Coelho | |
| c9acb8b | Joy is like sex - it begins and ends. I want pleasure. I want to be contended, but happiness? I no longer fall into that trap. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| d79ab9f | At some point, we have each said through our tears, "I'm suffering for a love that's not worth it." We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules. But ultimately there is no good reason for our suffering, for in every love lies the seed of our growth." | worth suffering love river-piedra paulo-coelho favorite | Paulo Coelho | |
| 239b1be | Someone gave me a copy of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, a fable about a shepherd boy who travels to the Pyramids in search of treasure when all the time it's at home. I loved that book and read it over and over again. 'When you want something all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it,' it says. I don't think that Paulo Coelho had come across the Taliban or our useless politicians. | Malala Yousafzai | ||
| f47480a | The brave are those who make decisions despite their fear, who are tormented by the Devil every step of the way and gripped by anxiety about their every action, wondering if they are right or wrong. And yet nevertheless, they act. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| afde51e | Man needs to choose, not just accept his destiny. | courage destiny listen-heart choose-love choose | Paulo Coelho | |
| d1d67ce | There is only one way to learn. It's through action. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| c691dd7 | He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| c19e955 | Everyone contributes a word, a sentence, an image, but in the end it all makes sense: the happiness of one becomes the joy of all. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| b402c3a | We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| a40f548 | He learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke--the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. | the-alchemist paulo-coelho | Paulo Coelho | |
| 6791d98 | You will encounter resentful, sneering non-readers who will look at you from their beery, leery eyes, as they might some form of sub-hominid anomaly, . You will encounter redditters, youtubers, blogspotters, wordpressers, twitterers, and facebookers with wired-open eyes who will shout at from you from their crazy hectoring mouths about the liberal poison of literature. You will encounter the gamers with their twitching fingers who will loo.. | M.J. Nicholls | ||
| 8b6e286 | Everybody in this family gets his goddamn religion in a different package. | religions | J.D. Salinger | |
| 585d567 | You fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 610a060 | Naturally, I never told him I thought he was a terrific whistler. I mean you don't just go up to somebody and say, 'You're a terrific whistler. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 200b965 | Exactly what don't I think is beautiful? Listen, I don't care what you say about my race, creed, or religion, Fatty, but don't tell me I'm not sensitive to beauty. To me, everything is beautiful. Show me a pink sunset and I'm limp, by God. Anything. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 543da12 | And the old horror of being a professional writer, and the usual stench of words that goes with it, is begining to drive me out of my seat. (Buddy) | J.D. Salinger | ||
| f7c6151 | He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army was practically as full of bastards as the Nazis were. | war catcher caulfield db rye salinger holden army | J.D. Salinger | |
| 860355e | Tilting his head back he slowly released an enormous quantity of smoke from his mouth and drew it up through his nostrils. He continued to smoke in this "French-inhale" style. Very probably, it was not part of the sofa vaudeville of a showoff but, rather, the private, exposed achievement of a young man who, at one time or another, might have tried shaving himself left-handed." | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 33db87c | You figured most of them would probably marry dopey guys. Guys that talk about how many miles they get to a gallon in their goddam cars. Guys that get sore and childish as hell if you beat them at golf, or even just some stupid game like ping-pong. Guys that are very mean. Guys that never read books. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 6dd4d26 | You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion. Never. I'm a little over-excited now. Since it is your religion, do you know what you will be asked when you die? But let me tell you first what you won't be asked. You won't be asked if you were working on a wonderful moving piece of writing w.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 7d61f6d | Almost every damn school in the world gets out earlier for Christmas break than the school I go to. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| d109207 | For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study psychoanalysis in the first place. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 7b0e11c | He was the tallest, thinnest, weariest boy I had ever seen in my life. He was brilliant. He had gorgeous brown eyes, and he had only two suits. He was completely unhappy, and I didn't know why. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| f53c254 | All these handsome guys are the same. When they're done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on you. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 3f562e8 | Did I do this on purpose? What do you think? Or did I do this accidentally? | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 4bc2ed9 | Here's the dead end of social media: after you've created your own bubble that reflects only what you relate to or what you identify with, after you've blocked and unfollowed people whose opinions and worldview you judge and disagree with, after you've created your own little utopia based on your cherished values, then a kind of demented narcissism begins to warp this pretty picture. Not being able or willing to put yourself in someone else.. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| d3343b1 | Descansado," he tells me. "What does that mean?" "Descansado," Rip says. "It means 'take it easy,'" he whispers, clutching the child next to him. "Yeah?" "It means relax." | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| defd54c | Haven't we outgrown all this tired irony? Weren't we supposed to give up acting twenty-two forever? | lunar-park | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| f4d51f4 | You are a fucking ugly bitch I want to stab to death and play around with your blood," but I'm smiling." | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 73f046d | The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment. He wasn't covetous, he wasn't envious. But without money he was hardly a man. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 9b857fe | What made drugs perpetually so sexy was the opportunity to be other. Years after he'd figured out that pot only made him paranoid and sleepless, he still got hard-ons at the thought of smoking it. Still lusted for that jailbreak. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 69ebdfe | THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long leakage of value from key financial markets, a contraction too gradual to generate headlines and too predictable to seriously hurt anybody but fools and the working poor. | society | Jonathan Franzen | |
| 767a505 | Adolescence is best enjoyed without self-consciousness, but self-consciousness, unfortunately, is its leading symptom. Even when something important happens to you, even when your heart's getting crushed or exalted, even when you're absorbed in building the foundations of a personality, there comes these moments when you're aware that what's happening is not the real story. Unless you actually die, the real story is still ahead of you. This.. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 504a3f6 | She had all day every day to figure out some decent and satisfying way to live, and yet all she ever seemed to get for all her choices and all her freedom was more miserable. The autobiographer is almost forced to the conclusion that she pitied herself for being so free. | freedom franzen self-pity miserable | Jonathan Franzen | |
| 5e1e240 | Already liberals are trying to rewrite the history of the Cold War to remove Reagan from its core, to make him a doddering B-movie actor who happened to be standing there when the Soviet Union imploded. They have the media, the universities, the textbooks. We have ourselves. We are the witnesses. | Ann Coulter | ||
| e28d27a | Oft in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shown Now dimmed and gone, | reflection-on-happier-times remembering-loved-ones | Thomas Moore |