Paulo Coelho: Trending quotes (page 5)
Paulo Coelho trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection“We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.”
Source: Aleph (2011)
“People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.”
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
“Nobody is worth your tears, and the one who is won't make you cry”
Source: The Alchemist
Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 97.
Context: In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
“When you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.”
Source: The Alchemist
Source: The Winner Stands Alone
“Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come.”
Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.
Aleph (2011)
“Pirates of the world, unite and pirate everything I’ve ever written!”
Paulo Coelho's blog entry " My thoughts on S.O.P.A. http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2012/01/20/welcome-to-pirate-my-books/", 20 Januar 2012. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
Context: As an author, I should be defending ‘intellectual property’, but I’m not. Pirates of the world, unite and pirate everything I’ve ever written!
“If you rely only on experience, you’ll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems.”
I know a lot of people who feel they have an identity only when they’re talking about their problems. That way, they exist, because their problems are linked to what they judge to be their history.
Aleph (2011)
“If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.”
Source: The Winner Stands Alone