If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
— Paulo Coelho
Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.
When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive.
Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.
I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.
Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
