Friday, November 20, 2009 @ 11:54 pm
i read Brida by Paulo Coelho 1 or 2 months ago. here are some quotes from the book.
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 its 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 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.
The night is just a part of the day. Therefore, she could feel as safe in the dark as she did in the light.
Above all, though, we are responsible for reencountering, at least once in every incarnation, the Soul Mate who is sure to cross our path. Even if it is only a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days.
Emotions were like wild horses, and Brida knew that reason could never entirely master them.
After her first romantic disappointment, she had never again given herself entirely. She feared pain, 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 in order not to see the bad things in life.
Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong, my dear, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Only the present has power in our lives. When you read the future in the cards, you are bringing the future into the present, and that can cause serious harm. The present could confuse your future.
True love allowed each person to follow their own path, knowing that they would never lose touch with their Soul Mate.
She didn't need to neglect her beauty in order to prove that she was also intelligent and capable.
People give flowers as presents because flowers contain the true meaning of Love. Anyone who tries to possess a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower in a field, you will keep it forever, because the flower is part of the evening and the sunset and the damp earth and the clouds on the horizon.