Paulo Coelho: Doing

“Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.”

“Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.”

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”

“Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”

“There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”

“This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.”

“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”

“Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked.
"Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.”

“Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.”

“Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.”

“Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily”

“Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks, and do what you really want to do.”

“Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because we don't know what to do with it.”

“If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.”

“Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.”

“Feelings do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don’t know, but it’s a world where there’s no time, so space, no frontiers.”

“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.”

“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”