Paulo Coelho: Trending quotes (page 38)

“you discover that your old “I,” along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences.”

“Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal.”

“That’s the problem, we do get used to things.”

“When I knocked, the door opened. When I looked, I found.”

“If someone is giving us something, that’s because we’re incapable of getting it for ourselves.”

“So, in my relationships with men, I’ve always sought suffering, conflict, and despair.”

“What can’t be cured must be endured.”

“What did I do to deserve this?”

“May love be your guide in every moment of your life.”

“People aren’t used to that way of thinking. They want everything to stay the same”

“Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.”

“The weak are wicked. Goodness can only be expected from the strong.”

“Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.”

“I forgive the tears I was made to shed”

“I am not a foreigner, because I haven’t been praying to return safely home. I haven’t wasted my time imagining my house, my desk, my side of the bed. I am not a foreigner, because we are all traveling, we are all full of the same questions, the same tiredness, the same fears, the same selfishness, and the same generosity. I am not a foreigner, because, when I asked, I received.”

“I can’t tell someone that their dreams are impossible.”

“Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.”

“She believed herself to be completely normal. Two very simple reasons lay behind her decision to die, and she was sure that, were she to leave a note explaining, many people would agree with her.
The first reason: everything in her life was the same and, once her youth was gone, it would be downhill all the way, with old age beginning to leave irreversible marks, the onset of illness, the departure of friends. She would gain nothing by continuing to live; indeed, the likelihood of suffering only increased. The second reason was more philosophical: Veronika read the newspapers, watched TV, and she was aware of what was going on in the world. Everything was wrong, and she had no way of putting things right — that gave her a sense of complete powerlessness.”

“That’s because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesn’t teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.”