Here are some of the best quotes from the book, 'Brida' by Paulo Coelho.
She had met people who had lost the glow of being alive because they could no longer fight against loneliness and had ended up becoming addicted to it. They were, for most part, people who believed the world to be an undignified, inglorious place, and who spent their evenings and nights talking on and on about the mistakes others had made. They were people whom solitude had made into judges of the world, whose verdicts were scattered to the four winds for whoever cared to listen. (p21)
(Wica) said that didn't understand why so many people chose to spend their whole life destroying paths they didn't even want to follow, instead of following the one path that would lead them somewhere. (p55)
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She was on the beach with her father, and he asked her to go and see what the temperature of the water was like. She was five years old and glad to be able to help. She went to the edge and dipped in a toe.
'I put my feet in and it's cold,' she told him.
Her father picked her up and carried her down to the water again and, without any warning, threw her in. She was shocked at first, but then laughed out loud at the trick he'd played.
'How's the water?' asked her father.
'It's lovely,' she replied.
'Right, from now on, whenever you want to find out about something, plunge straight in.'
(p96)
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Even in the most important area of life, love, she had failed to commit herself. After her fist romantic disappointment, she had never again given herself entirely. She feared pain, loss and seperation. 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. (p97)
..Love didn't need that kind of renunciation. True love allowed each person to follow their own path, knowing that they would never lose touch with their Soulmate. (p154)
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'Never stop having doubts. If you ever do, it will be because you've stopped moving forward, and at that point, God will step in and pull the rug from under your feet, because that is His way of controlling is chosen ones, by making sure that always follow their appointed path to the end. If, for any reason, we stop, whether out of complacency, laziness, or out of a mistaken belief that we know enough, He forces us on.'
'On the other hand, you must always be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. Always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong, if when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb.. "The Devil is in the detail". Remember that proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one.' [Wicca] (p167)
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'Never be ashamed, he (the Magnus) said. 'Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle'. (p254)
'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 that flower is part of the evening and the sunset and the smell of damp earth and the clouds on the horizon.' [Magnus] (p262)
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