Words i love

I recently read a Paulo Coehlo book called "Like the Flowing River."  There were a few times that he seemed to have quoted my own thoughts, only more eloquently of course.  Some are about love and these are my favorites:

"I can only conclude that worse than hunger or thirst, worse than being unemployed, unhappy in love or defeated and in despair, far worse than any or all of those things, is feeling that no one, absolutely no one, cares about us."

“In order to attain our objectives, we need other people. It is necessary, therefore, not only to observe the world, but to imagine ourselves into the skins of other people, and to learn how to follow their thoughts.  This applies to both love and war.”

“Love creates bridges where it would seem they were impossible.”

“It’s a shame that people see only the differences that separate them. If you were to look with more love, you would mainly see what we have in common, then half the world’s problems would be solved.” 

I also must agree with this travel thought:

"Traveling was the best way of learning….Don’t compare. You are not traveling in order to prove that you have a better life than other people.  Your aim is to find out how other people live, what they can teach you, how they deal with reality and with the extraordinary.  A journey is an adventure – experience the freedom of looking for something – quite what, you don’t know, but which, if you find it, will, you can be sure, change your life."   

Yup.  Agreed.