“Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing God that we trust him.”

“The greatest thing a human being can do is to accept the Mystery.”

“We don’t look for an answer, we accept, and then life becomes much more intense, much more brilliant,

because we understand that each minute, each step we take, has a meaning that goes far beyond us as individuals.”

“We plunge into the Dark Night with faith, we fulfill what the ancient alchemist used to call our Personal Legend,

and we surrender ourselves fully to each moment, knowing that there is always a hand to guide us,

and whether we accept it or not is entirely up to us.”

Paulo Coelho

Excerpts from the Novel “Brida”

pgs 138-139

Paulo Coelho

In life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant.

The builders might take years over their tasks, but one day,

they finish what they’re doing. Then they find they’re hemmed

in by their own walls.  Life loses it’s meaning when the building stops.

Then there are those who plant.  They endure storms and all the many

vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest.  But, unlike a

building, a garden never stops growing.  And while it requires the

gardener’s constant attention, it also allows life for the

gardener to be a great adventure.

Gardeners always recognize one another, because they know

that in the history of each plant lies the growth of the whole world.

~ Paulo Coelho

Excerpt from the Prologue in Paulo Coelho’s Novel – Brida

“Judging oneself to be inferior to other people is one of the worst acts of pride because it is the most destructive way of being different.”

~ Paulo Coelho

"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.  When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

~ Paulo Coelho