Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
Quotations
Paulo Coelho
When you travel towards your objective, be sure to pay attention to the path. The path teaches us the best way to arrive and enriches us while we are travelling along it.
I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.
Ester asked why people are sad.
“That’s simple,” says the old man. “They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.”
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.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
