for nobody's sake

I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.


Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
Atlas Shrugged

The dead dreams stink!

When we renounce our dreams, we find peace and enjoy a brief period of tranquillity, but the dead dreams begin to rot inside us and to infect the whole atmosphere in which we live. What we hoped to avoid in the Fight -disappointment and defeat- become the sole legacy of our cowardice.


Paulo Coelho
The Pilgrimage

To build or to plant?

In his or her life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. Builders may take years over their tasks, but one day they will finish what they are doing. Then they will stop, hemmed in by their own walls. Life becomes meaningless once the building is finished. Those who plant suffer the storms and the seasons and rarely rest. Unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And by its constant demands on the gardner's attentions, it makes of the gardener's life a great adventure.


Paulo Coelho
Source: Brida

How perverse is that?

Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and any suggestion that the heart might be larger than this is considered perverse.


Paulo Coelho
The Zahir

Are we?

When we marry, we are authorized to take possession of the other person, body and soul.


Paulo Coelho
Source: The Zahir

perception

What other people think is more important than what we feel.


Paulo Coelho
The Zahir

stubborn-a virtue?

The brave are always stubborn


Paulo Coelho
The Fifth Mountain

Learn from the child

A child can always teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.


Paulo Coelho
The Fifth Mountain

Words or weapons

… of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible –and the most powerful –was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided… but the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.


Paulo Coelho
The Fifth Mountain

Mad but normal

Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.


Paulo Coelho
Like the Flowing River

Did u own what u lost?

It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that 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.


Paulo Coelho

Why I want IT NOW?

There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.


Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist

love begets love

I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we're alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.
Paulo Coelho quote

Mystery IS

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
Paulo Coelho

To wait or forget?!

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
Paulo Coelho

life challenges

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

What's the Difference?

Two roads diverged in the wood,and I-
I took the road less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Mission accomplished?

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive it isn't.
~ Richard Bach (Illusions)

Did God hv a choice?!

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.

Albert Einstein

My choice is my power

I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.


Liv Ullmann

Solitude is bliss

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

Alice Koller

Was life a choice?

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

Henry Ward Beecher quotes

Attitude

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.
Charles R. Swindoll quotes

Its ur Choice!

Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Richard Bach

The life of a choice

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

Richard Bach

Choice

“When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels”

Choice

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Joanne Kathleen