People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams,

 because they feel that they don't deserve them, 

or that they'll be unable to achieve them

 

Tyler Durden : 

All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. 

I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck, I am smart, capable,

 and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not.

 

Fake it until you make it 

 

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. 

Gradually, you will discover that you are that person,

 but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.

 

The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, 

but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and listen.

 They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk.

 If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories

 

braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear

 

Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. 

Forgiving changes the perspectives. 

Forgetting loses the lesson

 

feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training;

 he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, 

but he knows how to strike when the time is right

 

People give flowers as present because flowers contain true meaning of love. 

Anyone who tries to posses a flower will have to watch its beauty fading.

 But if you simply look at a flower in the field, you'll keep it forever.

That is what the forest taught me. 

That you will never be mine,

 and that is why i will never lose you

 

Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.

Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. 

These meetings are waiting for us, but more often than not, we avoid them happening.

 If we are desperate, though, if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, 

then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction

 

Love is a trap. 

When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows

 

Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you

 

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. 

The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.

Ring of Ice Song by Jennifer Rush

 

We lay awake silent in the dark
You don't have to hide the trace
Emptiness left its mark

Ring of ice, ring of ice, 'round your heart
Ring of ice, ring of ice, break apart

I walk alone searchin' for a sign
Someone else must be alive
With warmth behind their eyes

Ring of ice, ring of ice, 'round your heart
Ring of ice, ring of ice, break apart

All the lonely people wearin' a ring of ice
Dancin' in the night, tryin' to disguise
All that lies behind countless empty lies
Wearing a ring of ice

All the lonely people wearin' a ring of ice
Dancin' in the night, tryin' to disguise
All the lies behind surrounded by a ring of ice
Dancin' in the night, tryin' to disguise
All that lies behind surrounded countless empty lies
Wearing a ring of ice

 

No one can hit their target with their eyes closed

 

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse

Listen to Your Heart Song by Roxette

 

I know there's something in the wake of your smile
I get a notion from the look in your eyes, yeah
You've built a love but that love falls apart
Your little piece of Heaven turns too dark

Sometimes you wonder if this fight is worthwhile
The precious moments are all lost in the tide, yeah
They're swept away and nothing is what is seems
The feeling of belonging to your dreams

And there are voices that want to be heard
So much to mention but you can't find the words
The scent of magic, the beauty that's been (beauty that's been)
When love was wilder than the wind

Listen to your heart when he's calling for you
Listen to your heart, there's nothing else you can do
I don't know where you're going and I don't know why
But listen to your heart before you tell him goodbye

 

You will never be able to escape from your heart. 

So it's better to listen to what it has to say

Love Is a Stranger Song by Annie Lennox,

 

Love is a stranger
In an open car
To tempt you in
And drive you far away

Love is a danger
Of a different kind
To take you away
And leave you far behind
And love love love
Is a dangerous drug
You have to receive it
And you still can't
Get enough of the stuff

It's savage and it's cruel
And it shines like destruction
Comes in like the flood
And it seems like religion
It's noble and it's brutal
It distorts and deranges
And it wrenches you up
And you're left like a zombie

It's guilt edged
Glamorous and sleek by design
You know it's jealous by nature
False and unkind
It's hard and restrained
And it's totally cool
It touches and it teases
As you stumble in the debris

And I want you
And I want you
And I want you so
It's an obsession

Love Is a Battlefield Song by Pat Benatar

  

You're making me go
Then making me stay
Why do you hurt me so bad?
It would help me to know
Do I stand in your way
Or am I the best thing you've had?
Believe me, believe me
I can't tell you why
But I'm trapped by your love
And I'm chained to your side

When I'm losing control
Will you turn me away
Or touch me deep inside?
And when all this gets old
Will it still feel the same
There's no way this will die
But if we get much closer
I could lose control
And if your heart surrenders
You'll need me to hold

We are young
Heartache to heartache
We stand
No promises
No demands
Love is a battlefield

We are strong
No one can tell us we're wrong
Searching our hearts for so long
Both of us knowing
Love is a battlefield

 

love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. 

On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; 

it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. 

Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony

 

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

 

Though the hippopotamus has no sting on its tail, the wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee

It is harder for the spider to catch a fly than it is for the fly to catch a horse

If your socks are not in your shoes, don't look for them in Heaven

A duck with three wings and a loaf of bread is brother to the turkey

When your sleigh is being chased by wolves, throw them a raisin cookie, but don't stop to bake a cake

The chicken that clucks the loudest is the one most likely to go to the Steamfitter's Picnic

Just because a dress is red satin doesn't mean it comes off easily

A wise man never tries to warm himself in front of a painting of a fire

If the butterfly had teeth like the tiger, it would never make it out of the hanger

A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a Unicorn

Only the centipede can hear all the one hundred steps of his uncle

Twelve good horses and silver candlesticks won't stop the snow from falling in Bialystock

A wolf that takes a peasant to supper probably won't need any breakfast.

No matter how warm the smile on the face of the sun, the cat still has her kittens under the porch

 

Only someone with nothing to be sorry about smiles back at the rear end of an elephant

Now

 

If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be happy

 Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now

 

Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds

 

This is what we call love. 

When you are loved, you can do anything in creation.

 When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, 

because everything happens within you.

 

Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.

Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

I don't know.

Paulo Coelho books

 

1974 Theater For Education

1982 Hell Archives

1987 he Pilgrimage

1988 The Alchemist

1990    Brida

1991    The Supreme Gift

1992    The Valkyries

1994 Maktub

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

1996 The Fifth Mountain

1997 Love Letters from a Prophet

Manual of the Warrior of Light

1998 Veronika Decides to Die 

Essential Words

2000 The Devil and Miss Prym

2001 Fathers, Sons and Grandsons

2003 Eleven Minutes

2004 The Genie and the Roses

Journeys

Life

2005 The Zahir 

Revived Paths

2006  Like the Flowing River

The Witch of Portobello

2008 The Winner Stands Alone

2009 Love

2010 Aleph

2011 Fábulas

2012  Found in Accra 

2014 Adultery

2016 The Spy

2018 Hippie

2020 The Archer

 

Only when you lose everything 

are you free to do anything 

 

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free

 

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.

But they are there for a reason.

Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there

 

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment 

and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter

 

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. 

It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, 

but it's another to think that yours is the only path

 

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. 

And normally he doesn't know it

Love is an untamed force

 

 When we try to control it, it destroys us. 

When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. 

When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused

 

Don't waste your time with explanations: 

people only hear what they want to hear

 

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive

 

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. 

And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams,

 because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity

 

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, 

and only the wise can see them

 

Waiting is painful. 

Forgetting is painful.

 But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. 

He never wanted you. 

In all probability, he hates you. 

This is not the worst thing that can happen.

 

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting

 

When you’ve tried everything and failed, try everything else and succeed

 

 the superior man should be aware of his aloneness

 

Nothing is more visible than things hidden; 

Nothing is more manifest than things minute;

 Therefore, the superior man should be aware of his aloneness

Zatara

 

I am the driftwood on the sand
No wings to fly; no place to stand
Not quite lost, but like a plan
That’s changed before, to change again.

We live a life that starts and ends
With something more than love and friends
Or what’s believed
The time we spend
The things we do, or just intend
A life lived once, then not again
- to live without the ‘why’ or ‘when’ -
Adopt the ’good’, amidst the wrong
Become the ‘wrong’, to feel strong
Or embrace the ‘grey’
and not belong
To either side; to neither throng
Place all choice on timelines long
And watch them fade to the Beyond
Then what is left on timeline’s right
When all our days have turned to night
Who will read the books we write?
Who owns the things for which we fight?
It won’t be us; we’ll be long gone
So now what should we think upon
When in this life, we’ll never know
Key answers sought before we go
What should we teach?
To take or give?
Is the ‘greater good’ to die or live?

I suppose for now, we cannot know.
We can only only sow, and watch it grow;
And find ourselves lost in thoughts
That circle ‘round to form these knots.
But life is short, and must be lived
Despite unknowns through which we sieve
We are the Middle - not Start, nor End
We’ve changed before; we’ll change again.

 

 There's a problem with trying to understand every mistake you've made: you can't. 

And trying to robs you of your life, your plans, your future. 

Plus, you can't really learn from your mistakes if you stop moving forward. 

It's scary. It's uncertain. 

But you'll find something pretty special there: 

hope.

 Find what you love and let it kill you.

Let it drain you of your all. 

Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.

Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.

For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, 

but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.

 The less i needed the better i felt

 All that shit they were fed about democracy and opportunity 

was just to keep them from burning down the palace

 Everything you own must be able to fit inside one suitcase; 

then your mind might be free

 darkness falls upon Humanity

and faces become terrible
things
that wanted more than there
was.

all our days are marked with
unexpected
affronts - some
disastrous, others
less so
but the process is
wearing and
continuous.
attrition rules.
most give
way
leaving
empty spaces
where people should
be.

and now
as we ready to self-destruct
there is very little left to
kill

which makes the tragedy
less and more
much much
more

 You choose to live with the loss, because at the end of the day, you'll do whatever you can to stay alive.

 And sometimes, by some miracle, it works. The bleeding stops. 

But sometimes, now matter how hard you try, it's still not enough.

 There's this Bible story. 

Two women both claim to be the mother of the same child. King Solomon had to choose. Two mothers, only one gets the kid. 

Solomon came up with a plan. He proposed a 50/50 split. Literally. He offered to chop the kid in half. It all ends if one mom relinquishes her custody, or else they both stand their ground, and the kid gets torn apart. 

If you're wondering how the Solomon story ends,  

The true mom would rather give her baby up than have it ripped in two. 

 Don't you wish you could just take it back? 

That thing you said? That thing you did? 

There's no undo button. 

There's only hoping we can learn. We can change, right? We can do better. 

We can't take back what we've done. We can't undo the past, cause the future keeps coming at us. Best to keep the past in the past. Move on. Learn from it.

 We don't learn from our mistakes, we wind up locked into a future we never choose.

 The past is written, there's no changing it. 

What's done is done, but the future is ours to choose, for better or worse.

 There's a reason the punchline to so many doctor jokes starts with "I've got good news, and bad news." 

Often, the bad news is so bad, when something good comes along, we tend to go a little overboard. 

Every cloud has a silver lining. But it's still a cloud. A cloud can mean a shower, or a storm. 

So, you take your good days where you get them. You try to stay positive. 

You try to remember that even in the bad news, there's good news for someone.

 Help comes in many forms. 

 A kind gesture. 

A friend to light your way. 

And still, too often, we insist on doing it ourselves. We're afraid of looking weak, of not being tough. 

Truth is we're all capable of walking through the world by ourselves. 

But most of the time, life is better with company.

 Pharmaceuticals are designed to mimic the body's natural brain chemicals. 

The ones that make you feel good, make you feel better, make you feel unstoppable. 

They make it in a lab and put it in a pill for pain relief, giving you the high your body creates naturally every time you do something you love. 

They call it a high for a reason. Because the flip side is really low. 

The chemical version isn't worth what comes after.

 But the dopamine rush from a job well done? That's free. 

And it's one of the very best parts of being alive.

 Those who are bound by desire 

seek only that 

which can be held in their hands 

 

To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities

—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.

there is no such thing as great suffering,

 great regret, great memory

....everything is forgotten, even a great love.

 That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. 

There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. 

That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion-

 it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from

Stop longing.

 

You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow

 You spend your whole life looking for answers because you think the next answer will solve all your problems:

 make you a little less miserable,

 because when you run out of questions you don't just run out of answers.

.. you run out hope