Apr 11, 2021
Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.
— Paulo Coelho, The Winner Stands Alone
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Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.
— Paulo Coelho, The Winner Stands Alone
Life has many ways of testing a person's will - either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once
Paulo Coelho
Life sometimes separate people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other📌 When people start to reflect on decisions they're trying to make, they usually change their mind, it requires a lot of courage to take certain steps📌 People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction. Is it just that they don't understand how simple happiness is? In this book, Paulo Coelho speaks on humans supposed satisfaction in #Fame #Glory #Glamour In particular, he wrote: "Knowing someone's name meant knowing that the other person was a human being and not "an enemy". Knowing someone's name transformed him into a unique and special individual, with a past and a future, with ancestors and possibly descendants; a person who has known trumps and failures. People are their names; they're proud of them; they repeat them thousands of times in their lifetime and identify with them. It's the first word they learn after DADDY and MUMMY. Someone's spirit, however, has no name; it is pure truth and inhabits a particular body for a certain period of time, and will, one day, leave it, and God won't bother asking, "what's your name?" When a soul arrives at the final judgement, God will ask only: "Did you love while you were alive?" For that is the essence of life; the ability to LOVE not the name we carry around on our passport, business card, and identity card. The great mystics changed their names, and sometimes abandoned them altogether. When John the Baptist was asked who he was, he said only: "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness." When Jesus found the man on whom he would build his church, he ignored the fact that the man in question had spent his entire life answering to the name of Simon and called him Peter. When Moses asked God his name, back came the reply: "I AM WHO I AM." #thewinnerstandsalone https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmv-WIwIYTf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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"People are their names"
She drank so much that night that she had to be carried back to the hotel. Before he put her into bed and before she fell asleep, she finally got up the courage to ask:
“And what if I were to leave you?”
“Drink less next time.”
“Answer me.”
“That could never happen. Our marriage is perfect.”
Common sense returned, but she knew she had an excuse now and so pretended to be drunker than she was.
“Yes, but what if I did?”
“I’d make you come back, and I’m good at getting what I want, even if that means destroying whole worlds.”
“And what if I met another man?”
He looked at her without rancor, almost benevolently.
“Even if you slept with every man on Earth, my love would still survive.”
- The Winner Stands Alone by Paulo Coelho
“Surround yourself with yay-sayers not naysayers. You may never be free from those who need to be critical; You can only control your responses and keep your eye on your end game.” 🤘🏼🏃🏻♀️🏆 #EyesOnThePrize #NeverConform #TheWinnerStandsAlone #MumAlwaysOnTheRun #globetrotting #fascinatingJapan (at Shibuya Crossing Intersection) https://www.instagram.com/p/By-JTQ_gAPIzMMBbV4RRWGj3n8iFsE6rush_n40/?igshid=16ccmfdcxd71o
#Live ~ @ms.yoo a few weeks ago with @angelalamusic & @moonben singing my new jam #TheWinnerStandsAlone produced by @motor_motor_music ~ Amazing event for #WomenInMusic put together by @ny_bxckim 🥂🎸🎤 #fbf #latergram (at Ms Yoo) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp-NpO4nrLf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=af5crgrejyey