You are what you believe yourself to be.
— Paulo Coelho (The Witch of Portobello) (via
kari-shma)
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.
— Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes: A Novel) (via
kari-shma)
We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for living a dream.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
Be the hero of your own life story.
Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.
