Words that Found Their Way Into My Mind 4

From Brida by Paulo Coelho

About Your Path of Life & Fear of Mistakes:

• When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat and despair are the tools God uses to show us our way.
• Path of wisdom means not being afraid to make mistakes.
• What are you good at? 
  Going after what I believe in.
  That was the only possible reply; she spent her life in pursuit of what she believed in. The only problem was that she believed in something different every day.
• Sometimes we set off down a path simply because we don’t believe in it. It’s easy enough. All we have to do is then prove that it isn’t the right path for us. However, when things start to happen, and the path does reveal itself to us, we become afraid of carrying on.
  Wicca said that she 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
• Whenever you want to find out about something, plunge straight in.
  Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others.
  She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none.
• How much I missed simply because I was afraid of missing it.
• Finding one important thing in your life, doesn't mean you have to give up all the others.

About Us:

• Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst act of pride, because it is the most destructive way of being different.
• We feel guilty when we go out to work because we're leaving our children in order to earn money to feed them. We feel guilty when we stay at home because it seems we're not making the most of our freedom. We feel guilty about everything, because we have always been kept far from decision-making and from power.
• She was a woman and does not need to explain her feelings.

About Love & Soulmate

• The whole of man's life on the face of Earth can be  summed up by that search for his soulmate. He might pretend to be running after wisdom, money or power, but none of that really matters. Whatever he achieves will be incomplete if he fails to find his soulmate.
• True love allowed each person to follow their own path, knowing that they would never lose touch with their soulmate.
• 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., ... you will never be mine, and that is why i will never lose you. you were my hope during the days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.

About Doubts:

• Never stop having doubts. If you ever do, it will be because you have stopped moving forward. ... but you must be careful never to let doubt paralyze you. Always take the decision you need to take, even if you are not sure you are doing the right thing. You will 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, you’ll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one.
• What is now proved was once imagined.

About the World:

• Nothing in the world is completely wrong.
  Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

About Faith:

• “That every moment in life is an act of faith.
  That you could choose to fill it with snakes and scorpions or with a strong protecting force.
  That faith cannot be explained. It was simply a Dark Night. And all she (Brida) had to do was to accept it or not.”
  
  

Brida in Paulo's Official Website