lessons learned lately

a lot of things have happened lately. however, i'm not in the mood to talk...not yet.



for now, i'd like to share the quotes i love from from Paulo Coelho's By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept:

"Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move towards the unknown – even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to."

"The heart decides, and what it decides is all that really matters."

"You have to take risks (...) We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen."

"Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won't suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow.
But when that person looks back - and at some point everyone looks back - she will her heart saying, "What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of losing those talents. So this is your heritage: the certainty that you wasted your life."

"Yes, life teaches us many things (...) It taught me that we can learn, and it taught me that we can change (...) even when it seems impossible."

"Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows."

"The gods throw the dice, freeing love from its cage. And love can create or destroy - depending on the direction of the wind when it is set free.

"Love doesn't need to be discussed; it has its own voice and speaks for itself."

"If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible."

"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering."