Paulo Coelho: Trending quotes (page 21)

“God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of
this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.”

“to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.”

“Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.”

“That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.”

“Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so”

“Although I have been through all that I have, I do not regret the many hardships I met, because it was they who brought me to the place I wished to reach.”

“We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.”

“What was broken will never be the same again.”

“Because we managed to keep our heart open, despite the pain.
Because we realized that the person who left us did not take the sun with them or leave darkness in their place.”

“The taste of things recovered is the sweetest honey we will ever know.”

“Every day, God gives us the sun — and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy.”

“He's seeing my soul, my fears, my fragility, my inability to deal with a world which i pretend to master, but about which I know nothing”

“About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.”

“And the person who loves wholeheartedly feels free.”

“LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation.”

“Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.”

“if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.”

“A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means…”

“I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies”