Witch Of Portobello Quotes:

What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Inspiring, Teacher, Teaching, Teacher Student, Witch Of Portobello

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

- Paulo Coelho

source: FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 08, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Impossible Dream, Inspirational Achievement

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

topic: Love, Inspirational, Change, Inspiring Love, Witch Of Portobello

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Love, I Hate You, Say I Love You, I Love You Because, Love For Her

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Stopped Clock, Life Destiny

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Life, Wise, Wisdom, Simple Things, Witch Of Portobello

And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Who We Are, Way, Knows, Witch Of Portobello

No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Beauty, Eye, Light, Witch Of Portobello

If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Losing Someone, Tragedy, Losing, Witch Of Portobello

No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Party, Complaining, Used, Witch Of Portobello

Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession. It cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Love, Spring, Cutting, Stagnant Water, Trapped

Everyone's looking for the perfect teacher, but although their teachings might be divine, teachers are all too human, and that's something people find hard to accept. Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Perfect, Witch Of Portobello, Perfect Teacher

Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it.

- Paulo Coelho

source: "The Witch of Portobello". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2007.

topic: Views, Laughing, Worry, Witch Of Portobello

Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Inspirational, Life, Earth, Witch Of Portobello

After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Love, Happiness, Real, Witch Of Portobello, Happiness Love

Finally, the Witch justifies her existence by going in search of complete and limitless pleasure.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Women, Witch, Limitless, Witch Of Portobello

Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment. The importance of this has been completely forgotten: even religious holidays have been transformed into opportunities to go to the beach or the park or skiing. There are no more rituals. Ordinary actions can no longer be transformed into manifestations of the sacred. We cook and complain that it's a waste of time, when we should be pouring our love into making that food. We work and believe it's a divine curse, when we should be using our skills to bring pleasure and to spread the energy of the Mother.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Mother, Beach, Religious, Witch Of Portobello, Religious Holiday

When you dance you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Dance, Luxury, Enjoy, Witch Of Portobello

I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Loneliness, Trying, Stronger, Witch Of Portobello

Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Strive, Striving To Be The Best, Witch Of Portobello, Personal Legend, Eleven Minutes

Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Love, Rivers, Prisoner, Overflow, Witch Of Portobello

No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Dream, Hands, Might, Witch Of Portobello

You are what you believe yourself to be.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Life, Inspiring, Happiness, Witch Of Portobello

Don't be like those people who believe in "positive thinking" and tell themselves that they're loved and strong and capable. You don't need to do that because you know it already.

- Paulo Coelho

source: "The Witch of Portobello". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2006.

topic: Strong, Believe, Positive Thinking, Witch Of Portobello

Now go back and meet all those people who you think know everything. Convince yourself that they're right, because we all know everything, it's merely a question of believing.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Believe, Thinking, People, Witch Of Portobello

Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Silence, Suffering, I've Learned, Witch Of Portobello, Athena

The day is made up of 24 hours and an infinite number of moments. We need to be aware of those moments and make the most of them regardless of whether we're busy doing something or contemplating life.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Inspiring, Numbers, Needs, Witch Of Portobello

music isn't just something that comforts or distracts us, it goes beyond that - it's an ideology. you can judge people by the kind of music they listen to.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: People, Judging, Comfort, Witch Of Portobello

If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Luxury, Dancing, World, Witch Of Portobello, Preconceptions

All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Laughing, Suffering, Steps, Witch Of Portobello

The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Pain, Self, Suffering, Pain Suffering, Witch Of Portobello

You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Order, Forget, Painter, Witch Of Portobello

Many of us are returning from a long journey during which we were forced to search for things that were of no interest to us. Now we realize that they were false. But this return cannot be made without pain, because we have been away for a long time and feel that we are strangers in out own land. It will take some time to find the friends who also left, and the places where our roots and treasures lie. But this will happen.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Pain, Lying, Journey, Witch Of Portobello, Without Pain

They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Ease, Extroverts, Introvert, Witch Of Portobello, Happy And Contented

Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us,...

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Faith, Space, Desire, Witch Of Portobello

When mouths close, it’s because there’s something important to be said.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Important, Mouths, Said, Witch Of Portobello

In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.

- Paulo Coelho

source: FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 17, 2011

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Witch Of Portobello

Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Love, Song, Commitment, Witch Of Portobello

What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Mean, Learning, Doe, Witch Of Portobello

We all have an unknown ability, which will probably remain unknown forever. And yet that ability can become our ally. Since it’s impossible to measure that ability or give it an economic value, it’s never taken seriously.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Taken, Economic Value, Giving, Witch Of Portobello