Oscar Wilde said: ‘Each man kills the thing he loves.’ And it’s true. The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. I’m reading The Alchemist again. Every time I do I get something else from it, relevant to what I’m going through at the time. I [...]

Quotes of the Day

She’d lost tons of time looking for a travel companion, a whole bunch of frightened little boys who were only prepared to explore what they already knew— for them, even Latin America must have posed a threat. They liked to pretend they were free as long as they were within safe range of their mothers’ [...]

Quote of the Day

Karla needed to take a radical step, discover a country within herself or without that she'd never explored before and find a way past the tedium that she could feel draining her strength with each passing dayPaulo Coelho - Hippie This is exactly my feeling surrounding travel. Sometimes it feels like the only way I [...]

The Fifth Mountain – Paulo Coelho

3/5 I usually experience Paulo Coelho's work as dreamlike, very powerful and inspiring. I'm not quite sure why this one didn't really do it for me. I read his work because they seem to help me think about life in new ways, grow, etc... I don't know why this work didn't grab me quite as [...]

Eleven Minutes – Paulo Coelho

I sincerely love the way Paulo Coelho writes and the way he implicitly shares in all his works that there are things we cannot know and cannot completely understand--like how the meeting of two people can spark a vibrant passion and the meeting of two others spurs nothing at all, while the former two are [...]