You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
Paulo Coelho
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
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.
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.
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
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.
When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.
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.
You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.
No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.
We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.
No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.
You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.
I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.
The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality.
We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
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.
Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.
The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.
People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.
Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.
Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.
You should treat a muse like a fairy.
When I'm dancing, I'm not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife.
I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
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.
Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.
I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you're really tired. It's my relaxing time.
Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.
The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.
