Paulo Coelho: Trending quotes (page 13)

“There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.”

“If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.”

“Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.”

“The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better."
-- The Alchemist”

“If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.”

“Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny”

“Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.”

“If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating.”

“No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.”

“Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present".”

“And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.”

“We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.”

“Don't explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you”

“There is always a gap between intention and action..”

“If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.”

“You say they create their own reality," said Veronika, "but what is reality?”

“Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.”

“Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.”

“Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives.”