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“Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

“But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to become passionate about something that was impossible. I knew my limits; I knew how much suffering i could bear.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“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.”

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

“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.”

Paulo Coelho book The Fifth Mountain

Source: The Fifth Mountain

“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”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

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

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Uselessness

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

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

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

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Variant: Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.
Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 9.
Context: When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? 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.”

Paulo Coelho Maktub

Source: Maktub

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

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

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

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

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

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“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.”

Source: The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom

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

Source: Economic Warfare Quotes

“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.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

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

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

“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.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

“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.”

Paulo Coelho book The Zahir

Source: The Zahir