Paulo Coelho Quotes Page 2

“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”

“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”

“Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.”

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”

“Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.”

“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say 'yes' to life?”

“Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.”

“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.”

“I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.”

“In the end, the most interesting people always leave.”

“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”

“No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”

“Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”

“Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.”

“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”

“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”

“Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because we don't know what to do with it.”

“Certain things in life simply have to be experienced — and never explained. Love is such a thing.”

“Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”

“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”

“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”

“Go ahead, and enjoy your freedom. The sheep spend their lives fearing the wolf and end up eaten by the shepherd.”

“I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.”

“If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”

“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”

“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”

“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.”