Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.

Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

I don't know.

Paulo Coelho


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Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked.
"Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.

Paulo Coelho


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Every second of the search is an encounter with God. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous...I've discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve.

Paulo Coelho


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When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Paulo Coelho


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God always offers us a second chance in life.

Paulo Coelho


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Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

Paulo Coelho

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And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.

Paulo Coelho

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Words are tears that have been
written down. Tears are words that
need to be shed.

Paulo Coelho


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Everything depends on which path you take.

Paulo Coelho

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Love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

Paulo Coelho

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