Brida Paulo Coelho

"Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong even a stopped clock is right twice a day."

"Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but others drink the whole bottle'
'How will I know which is which?'
'By the taste. You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one"

"Right now, while we're here eating, ninety-nine per cent of the people on this planet are, in their own way, struggling with that very question. Why are we here? Many think they've found the answer in religion or in materialism. Other despair and spend their lives and their money trying to grasp the meaning of it all. A few let the question go unanswered and live for the moment, regardless on the results or the consequences.'
'Only the brave and those who understand the Traditions of the Sun and the Moon are aware that the only possible answer to the question is I DON'T KNOW"

"We can also allow our Soulmate to pass us by,without accepting him or her,or even noticing. Then we will need another incarnation in order to find that Soulmate. And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness."

”Ever since the time began, people have recognized their true love by the light in their eyes.”

"So what's the point of looking for an answer then?"
"We don't look for an answer, we accept, and then life becomes much more intense. much more brilliant, because we understand that each minute, each step that we take, has a meaning that goes far beyond us as individuals. We realize that somewhere in time and space this question does have an answer. We realized that there is a reason for us being here, and for us, that is enough." 

‘ That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why I will never lose you. You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.

Knowing that my Soulmate would come one day, I devoted myself to learning the Tradition of the Sun. Knowing that you existed was my one reason for continuing to live.’

Brida could no longer conceal her tears.

‘Then you came, and I understood all of this. You came to free me from the slavery I myself had created, to tell me that I was free to return to the world and to the things of the world. I understood everything I needed to know, and I love you more than all the women I have ever known, more than I loved the woman who, quite unwittingly, exiled me to the forest. I will always remember now that love is liberty. That was the lesson it took me so many years to learn. That is the lesson that sent me into exile and now sets me free again.’

‘I will always remember you, and you will remember me, just as we will remember the evening, the rain on the windows, and all the things we’ll always have because we cannot possess them.’"

"We will take this risk together, Brida. People usually retrieve their own behavior in two ways - people, who build, and people, who plant. For those, who build, whatever they have started would take a lot of time and effort but one they they will finish it. Then they will be limited by their own walls. The life loses its sence when the building has been finished. There are people, who plant. They often become victims of storms and its hard for them to achieve harmony ... "

"We can also allow our Soulmate to pass us by,without accepting him or her,or even noticing. Then we will need another incarnation in order to find that Soulmate. And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness."