Paulo Coelho: Doing

Paulo Coelho is Brazilian lyricist and novelist. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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“All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step”

Paulo Coelho book The Zahir

Source: The Zahir

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

Paulo Coelho

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

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Source: Aleph

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

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

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Variant: Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

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

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

“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.”

Paulo Coelho book The Fifth Mountain

Source: The Fifth Mountain

“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.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

“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.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

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

Paulo Coelho

“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.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

“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.”

Paulo Coelho book Like the Flowing River

Source: Like the Flowing River

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

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

Variant: Fear again. If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

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

Paulo Coelho

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

“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.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

“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.”

Paulo Coelho

“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.”

Paulo Coelho

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”

Paulo Coelho

Source: Economic Warfare Quotes