Jack Bale > Jack's Quotes

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou

“The greatest challenge we face is to truly believe, at the very core of our heart,
we are loved unconditionally for who we are, and not for what we can do.’
Colm Holland”
― Colm Holland, The Secret of The Alchemist: Uncovering the Secret in Paulo Coelho's Bestselling Novel 'the Alchemist'

“Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“I have asked Love to give you everything you need to be the Alchemist in your world.”
― Colm Holland, The Secret of The Alchemist: Uncovering the Secret in Paulo Coelho's Bestselling Novel 'the Alchemist'

“Getting to the root of our fears is the unavoidable first step of the process of personal transformation.”
― Colm Holland

“Transformation is not about trying to become someone other than who we really are.”
― Colm Holland

“When Love comes to us, it’s usually at a time we least expect and in a form we don’t immediately recognize - and more often than not it’s an agent of Love in human form.”
― Colm Holland

“Though no one notices at the time, in-loveness obliterates the humanity of the beloved. One does a curious kind of insult to another by falling in love with him, for we are really looking at our own projection of God, not at the other person. If two people are in love, they tread on star dust for a time and live happily ever after—that is so long as this experience of divinity has obliterated time for them. Only when they come down to earth do they have to look at each other realistically and only then does the possibility of mature love exist. If one person is in love and the other not, the cooler one is likely to say, "We would have something better between us if you would look at me rather than at your image of me.”
― Robert A. Johnson, Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
― Antonio Gramsci