‘Love and don’t ask too many questions. Just love.”’
The Witch of Portobello, Paulo Coelho
‘Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn’t what romantic songs tell us it is – love simply is.”’
The Witch of Portobello, Paulo Coelho
‘We don’t need to be thin. We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating the miracle of being here in this world.”’
The Witch of Portobello, Paulo Coelho
…a mother doesn’t have to understand anything, she simply has to love and protect.
The Witch of Portobello, Paulo Coelho
In order for us to understand the powers we carry within us and the secrets that have already been revealed, it was necessary to allow the surface – expectations, fears, appearances – to be burned away.
The Witch of Portobello, Paulo Coelho
‘We all have a duty to love and to allow love to manifest itself in the way it thinks best.”’
The Witch of Portobello, Paulo Coelho
‘I’m afraid of taking steps that are not on the map, but by taking those steps despite my fears, I have a much more interesting life.”’
The Witch of Portobello, Paulo Coelho
‘Thousands of years ago, weren’t we capable of building enormous structures like the pyramids? Weren’t we capable of worshipping gods, weaving, making fire, finding lovers and wives, sending written messages? Of course we were. But although we’ve succeeded in replacing slaves with wage slaves, all the advances we’ve made have been in the field of science. Human beings are still asking the same questions as their ancestors. In short, they haven’t evolved at all.”’
The Witch of Portobello, Paulo Coelho
‘I want to love freely, and I want to allow the people around me to do the same.”’
The Witch of Portobello, Paulo Coelho
‘…I struggled for things for which there was no point struggling. Like love, for example. People either feel it or they don’t, and there isn’t a force in the world that can make them feel it. We can pretend we love each other. We can live a whole lifetime of friendship and complicity, we can bring up children, have sex every night, reach orgasm, and still feel that there’s a terrible emptiness about it all, that something important is missing.”’
The Witch of Portobello, Paulo Coelho
