Empujando Piedra Quotes

One doesn't love in order to do what is good or to help or to protect someone. If we act that way, we are perceiving the other as a simple object. ~ Paulo Coelho

God hides the fires of hell within paradise. ~ Paulo Coelho

All love stories have much in common. I wen through the same thing at one point in my life. But that's not what I remember. What I remember is that love returned in the form of another man, new hopes, and new dreams. ~ Paulo Coelho

By the River Piedra I sat down and wept. There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river
leaves, insects, the feathers of birds
is transformed into the rocks that make the riverbed. If only I could tear out my heart and hurl it into the current, then my pain and longing would be over, and I could finally forget. ~ Paulo Coelho

Joy's a subtil elf. I think man's happiest when he forgets himself. ~ George MacDonald

Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings. ~ John Ortberg

Is it racist of me to not really want to hear about your gay sex? ~ Colleen Hoover

To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night. ~ Jean Giraudoux

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. ~ Jonathan Swift

I will be waiting for you at the end of every blind alley, under the lonely streetlamps of a city that will no longer be ours.
When the wind grows colder and the huge piles of settled leaves sit there for a week or two, unshielded from the curious gaze of passersby, I will be waiting for you.
I will be waiting for what could have been and for what will never be;
For the letters that never arrived, the letters that were never sent, and the letters that will never be written. ~ Malak El Halabi