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

August

 

As we stood there older than men
And younger than the boys (that's right)
We were as still as the wind
That blows on a hot August night

The wild boys are calling
On their way back from the fire
In August moon's surrender to
A dust cloud on the rise

 

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

 

When you find your path, you must not be afraid.

 You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. 

Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way

 

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. 

When I stopped being who I am, I found myself

 

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.

August

 

 

The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning, 

The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, 

and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, 

but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. 

It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.

Borders

Twilight is the border between day and night,

the shore is the border between sea and land. 

The border is longing: 

when both have fallen in love but still haven’t said anything.

 The border is to be on the way. 

It is the way that is the most important thing.

 August is the border between summer and autumn;

 it is the most beautiful month 

 Those late August mornings smelt of autumn from day-break till the hour when the sun-baked earth allowed the cool sea breezes to drive back the then less heavy aroma of threshed wheat, open furrows, and reeking manure.

 In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.

 August rain: 

the best of the summer gone, 

and the new fall not yet born. 

The odd uneven time.

 August is the slow, gentle month that stretches out the longest across the span of a year. 

It yawns and lingers on with the light in its palms.

August

 

August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, and the fifth of seven months to have a length of 31 days.

Its zodiac sign is Leo.

Certain meteor showers take place in August. The Kappa Cygnids take place in August, with the dates varying each year. The Alpha Capricornids meteor shower takes place as early as July 10 and ends at around August 10, and the Southern Delta Aquariids take place from mid-July to mid-August, with the peak usually around July 28–29. The Perseids, a major meteor shower, typically takes place between July 17 and August 24, with the days of the peak varying yearly. The star cluster of Messier 30 is best observed around August.

The month was originally named Sextilis in Latin because it was the 6th month in the original ten-month Roman calendar under Romulus in 753 BC, with March being the first month of the year. About 700 BC, it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days. Julius Caesar added two days when he created the Julian calendar in 46 BC (AUC 708), giving it its modern length of 31 days.

In 8 BC, the month was renamed in honor of Emperor Augustus. According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt. Commonly repeated lore has it that August has 31 days because Augustus wanted his month to match the length of Julius Caesar's July, but this is an invention of the 13th century scholar Johannes de Sacrobosco. Sextilis in fact had 31 days before it was renamed, and it was not chosen for its length

August's birthstones are the peridot, sardonyx, and spinel. Its birth flower is the gladiolus or poppy, meaning beauty, strength of character, love, marriage and family. The Western zodiac signs are Leo (until August 22) and Virgo (from August 23 onward)