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Paulo Coelho Quotes - Page 79

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Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you feel

Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.

Fear, Waiting, Promise

it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear

Path

Paulo Coelho (2015). “Stories for Parents, Children and Grandchildren -”, p.51, Booklassic

I knew it,’ she says. ‘I knew I had met you before. I knew it the first time I saw your photograph. It’s as if we had to meet again at some point in this life. I talked to my friends about it, but they thought I was crazy, that thousands of people must say the same thing about thousands of other people every day. I thought they must be right, but life… life brought you to me. You came to find me, didn’t you?

Crazy, People, Saws

Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present

Past, Flames, Fire

Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

Time neither moves nor is stationary. Time changes.

Time, Moving, Stationary

"Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

My aim is to understand love. I know how alive I felt when I was in love, and I know that everything I have now, however interesting it might seem, doesn't really excite me. But love is a terrible thing: I've seen my girlfriends suffer and I don't want the same thing to happen to me. [...] Although my aim is to understand love, and although I suffer to think of people to whom I gave my heart, I see that those who touched my heart failed to arouse my body, and that those who aroused my body failed to touch my heart.

Life, Girlfriend, Heart

"Eleven Minutes". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2003.

No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you to seek out other writers but to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm.

Life, Writing, Skills

"Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

I love you like a river that begins as a solitary trickle in the mountains and gradually grows and joins other rivers until, after a certain point, it can flow around any obstacle in order to get where it wants.

Life, Love You, Order

"Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

The warrior of the light has a destiny to fulfill.

Warrior, Destiny, Light

A warrior balances solitude and dependence.

Warrior, Light, Solitude

I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I didn't want to go in.

Life, Taken, Years

A miracle happened: another day of life.

Gratitude, Miracle, Another Day

The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return. We know that, and we are used to it. Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become part of everything. They become the Soul of the World.

Dream, Encouragement, Animal

"The Alchemist". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1988.

Well, let's distinguish religion from spirituality. I am Catholic, so religion for me is a way of having discipline and collective worship with persons who share the same mystery.

Discipline, Catholic, Way

In any activity, we have to know what to expect, how to reach our objectives and what capacity we possess for the proposed task. The only people who can say they have renounced the fruit are those who, thus equipped, feel no desire for the results of the conquest, and remain absorbed in combat. You can renounce the fruit, but this renunciation does not mean indifference toward the result.

Letting Go, Mean, Passion

I think that we are starting to get much more conscious about, you know, the importance of the spiritual path, and we are fulfilling it by paying attention to ourselves.

Spiritual, Thinking, Attention

"My dream was, and still is, to be a writer: Paulo Coelho". Interview with Tanu Talwar, zeenews.india.com. July 6, 2009.

So for the question I go to the mystery of it and say I don't know. I only know that I am alive and there is something that manifests in my life, that it is God and one day I am going to understand my life, probably in the day that I die, or afterwards. But I try to find good questions and not good answers.

Life, Trying, One Day

I believe everything is one thing only. That said, there are some questions in my life that I don't know.. I've stopped asking. At the very beginning of my life, I wanted to have answers for everything. And now I respect the fact that I can't have answers for everything.

Life, Believe, Asking

Anything that makes us forget who we are and what we want; that way we can work in order to produce, reproduce, and earn money.

Life, Order, Want

Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).

Life, War, Conventions

Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable.

Life, Years, Study

Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

Life, Years, Giving

Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.

Life, Years, Boredom

Believing that power is much more important than money and that money is much more important than happiness.

Life, Believe, Important

Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of "lacking ambition."

Life, Fun, Ambition

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