quotes from Frida-Paulo Coelho

“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.”

“How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.”

“Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live, and she was
always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she made now. “I’m afraid of
committing myself,” she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up
following none. Even in that most important area of her life, love, she had failed to commit herself.
After her first romantic disappointment, she had never again given herself entirely. She feared pan,
loss, and separation. These things were inevitable on the path to love, and the only way of avoiding
them was by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It
was like putting out your own eyes not to see the bad things in life.”

“When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had
never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.”

“Feelings do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don’t know, but it’s a
world where there’s no time, so space, no frontiers.”

“Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.”

if the Anima Mundi were merely to keep dividing, it would keep growing, but it would also become
gradually weaker. That is why, as well as dividing into two, we also find ourselves. And the process of
finding ourselves is called love. Because when a sould divides, it always divides into a male part and a female part.

“Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path.”

“Every moment in life is an act of faith”

“She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and
then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is
protecting you from all evil and all danger”

“Pain, loss and separation are inevitable on the path of love, and the only way of avoiding them is
by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you have to renounce love. It was like
putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.”

“Never be ashamed,’ he said. ‘Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines
should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.’
‘How will I know which is which?’
‘By the taste. You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.”

“I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a
brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.”

“The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is
the same thing with human beings. When male knowledge joins with female transformation, then
the great magical union is created, and its name is wisdom. Wisdom means both to know and to
transform.”

“I’m afraid of committing myself,” she thought to herself.

“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.”

“Love was above everything else, and there was no hatred in love, only the occasional mistake.”

“...you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to
take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make
a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that
proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one.”

“In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not
to see the bad things in life.”

“Nothing happens by chance.”

“What we see is not always what exists.”

“You could tell your soul mate by the light in their eyes, and since the time began, that has been how
people have recognized their true love.”

“Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love.”

“What is outside is harder to change than what is inside.”

“You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others.”

“No one could make a choice without feeling afraid.”

“Above all though we are responsible for rein-countering at least once in every incarnation the soul
mate who sure to cross our path. 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... We can also allow our soul
mate to pass us by, without accepting him or her or even noticing. Then we will need another
incarnation in order to find that soul mate and because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to
the worst torture human kind ever invented for itself, loneliness.”




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