The Witch Of Portobello Quotes

“What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“Don't be like those people who believe in "positive thinking" and tell themselves that they're loved and strong and capable. You don't need to do that because you know it already. And when you doubt it — which happens, I think, quite often at this stage of evolution — do as I suggested. Instead of trying to prove that you're better than you think, just laugh. Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it. Now go back and meet all those people who think you know everything. Convince yourself that they're right, because we all know everything, it's merely a question of believing.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“You are what you believe yourself to be”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“We women, when we’re searching for a meaning to our lives or for the path of knowledge, always identify with one of four classic archetypes.
The Virgin (and I’m not speaking here of a sexual virgin) is the one whose search springs from her complete independence, and everything she learns is the fruit of her ability to face challenges alone.
The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, surrender and suffering.
The Saint finds her true reason for living in unconditional love and in her ability to give without asking anything in return.
Finally, the Witch justifies her existence by going in search of complete and limitless pleasure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“Her silence was the blank space between the words.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“The day is made up of 24 hours and an infinite number of moments. We need to be aware of those moments and make the most of them regardless of whether we're busy doing something or contemplating life.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“A teacher isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want? You want to justify your life, to live it as intensely as possible. That is at once a trap and a source of ecstasy. Try to be alert to that danger and experience the joy and the adventure of being that woman who is beyond the image reflected in the mirror.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“when mouths close, it’s because
there’s something important to be said.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“it wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise
and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact
with myself.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing, I learned calligraphy. I go to courses on selling, I read one book after another. But that's all a way of avoiding those moments when nothing is happening, because those blank spaces give me a feeling of absolute emptiness, in which not a single crumb of love exists.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“نثق ثقة عمياء بمن يرشدنا ، معتقدين أن مدى معرفتهم يفوق معرفتنا”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“أن الوحدة تزداد شدّة عندما نحاول الوقوف أمامها وجهًا لوجه ، لكنها تضعف عندما نتجاهلها ببساطة”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“في الفرح عدوى ، تمامًا كالحماسة والحب ، أو الحزن أو الاكتئاب أو الكراهية”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“worshiping someone means...placing that person outside of our world. We are not worshiping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with Creation.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“إن وقتنا على هذه الأرض مقدس ، وعلينا الاحتفاء بكل لحظة”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.” ~Deidre O’Neill, known as Edde (p. 213)”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“Joy is like sex – it begins and ends. I want pleasure. I want to be contended, but happiness? I no longer fall into that trap.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“كلّ منا يحمل في داخله شيئًا مجهولًا . لكنه، عندما يطفو إلى السطح ، يكون قادرًا على اجتراح المعجزات”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“Do you know what I've learned? That although ecstasy is the ability to stand outside yourself, dance is a way of rising up into space, of discovering new dimensions while still remaining in touch with your body. When you dance, the spiritual world and the real world manage to coexist quite happily. I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“إذا لم أشعر بحياة تنمو داخلي ، فلن أتمكنّ من تقبّل الحياة خارجي”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something important to be said.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello

“ما المعلم ؟
سأخبرك : هو ليس من يعلّم أمرًا ، بل من يُلهم تلميذه أو تلميذته لتقديم أفضل مالديهما لاكتشاف ما سبقت معرفتهما له”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello