The River Piedra Quotes

#1. We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

Patti Smith

#2. 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

#3. Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.

Twyla Tharp

#4. God hides the fires of hell within paradise.

Paulo Coelho

#5. For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance to go to Tiger Woods Golf Camp. He taught me how to swing and was hitting the ball, and this dude was unreal.

Larry Fitzgerald

#6. 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

#7. You have been insulted, and you have been beaten...and yet you have refused to let any of it hurt you where it really mattered: on the inside. You are indeed a stone. You withstand the waves and winds of this world, and you remain strong.

Ben Willoughby

#8. I was one of those children they used to call 'readers.'

Cathleen Schine

#9. Considering I know what you look like naked and what you sound like when you come and what you taste like, I actually know very little about you.

Amy Andrews