Just finished a Paulo Coelho novel, "Brida".
This sounded like Coelho was talking about me: "She only managed to take part in things she could already understand. She sensed that she was missing out on something very important in life, and that if she carried on as she was, she would simply continue to repeat the same experiences over and over. And yet she didn't have the courage to change. She needed to be constantly struggling to discover her path." (pg. 19)
"She wasn't afraid of difficulties; what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular path." (pg. 75)
"The whole of man's life on the face of Earth can be summed up by that search for his Soul Mate. He may pretend to be running after wisdom, money, or power, but none of that matters. Whatever he achieves will be incomplete if he fails to find his Soul Mate." (pg. 46-47)
"We can so easily make the same mistakes over and over. We can so easily flee from everything that we desire and which life so generously places before us." (pg. 151)
"...and a great love is above the things of this world." (pg. 61)
"...people who followed certain paths only to prove that they weren't the right ones, but that wasn't as bad as choosing a path and then spending the rest of your life wondering if you'd made the right choice." (pg. 76)
"No one could make a choice without feeling afraid." (pg. 76)
"When you [are] in love, you [are] capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love [is] the key to understanding all of the mysteries." (pg. 116)
