The best Quotes from The Witch of Portobello

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

Teachers

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

You are what you believe yourself to be.

Paulo Coelho

Character

Her greatest problem was that she was a woman of the twenty-second century living in the twenty-first, and making no secret of the fact either. Did she pay a price? She certainly did.

Paulo Coelho

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What other people think of you is none of your business.

Paulo Coelho

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

Paulo Coelho

Change Beginning

Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.

Paulo Coelho

Love

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

Paulo Coelho

Breakup

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Paulo Coelho

Heart Fear

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

Paulo Coelho in Eleven Minutes

Wise Sayings Searching

Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

Paulo Coelho in Eleven Minutes

Desire

One day you will wake up and there wont be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.

Paulo Coelho

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Paulo Coelho

Life Dreaming

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist

Dreaming Vision

It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.

Paulo Coelho in The Zahir

Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.

Paulo Coelho

Hurting

Don't be someone that searches, finds, and then runs away.

Paulo Coelho

Relationships Loyalty Searching

The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes.

Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist

Change Wind Deserts

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say!

Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist

Heart

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

Paulo Coelho in The Fifth Mountain

Children & Childhood

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist

Life has a way of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once.

Paulo Coelho

The difference between the novice and the master is that the master has failed more times than the novice has tried.

Koro-Sensei in Assassination Classroom

Teachers Failures & Mistakes Motivation

We are what they grow beyond. That is the true burden of all masters.

Master Yoda in Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi

Teachers

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Character Decisions

Being different isn't a bad thing. It means you're brave enough to be yourself.

Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Character Self-Confidence

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist

Romantic Quotes

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist

Getting up

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

Paulo Coelho in Eleven Minutes

The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.

Paulo Coelho in Eleven Minutes

Love

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

Paulo Coelho in By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Forgetting Waiting

The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.

Paulo Coelho in By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Love

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Paulo Coelho in Brida

Clocks

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

Paulo Coelho in Brida

Life Wine

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.

Paulo Coelho in Veronika Decides to Die

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Paulo Coelho in The Zahir

Farewell & Goodbye

Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.

Paulo Coelho in The Zahir

Fake Friends

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

Paulo Coelho in The Devil and Miss Prym

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

Paulo Coelho in The Fifth Mountain

The FBI is now the prime functionary of the Deep State. The politicized leadership at the very top has turned it into a tool of surveillance and suppression of American citizens.

Kash Patel in Government Gangsters

FBI

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