Quotable Quotes discussion
Quotes by Paulo Coelho
Warriors of light frequently ask themselveswhat they are doing here.
Very often they believe their lives have no meaning.
That is why they are warriors of light.
Because they make mistakes.
Because they ask questions.
Because they continue to look for a meaning.
And, in the end, they will find it.
(Manual of a Warrior of Light)
The moment that he begins to walk along, the Warrior of the Light recognizes the Path. (Manual of the Warrior of Light)
Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen of times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can send us to hell or paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. …we have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.(Life)
Making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.(Life)
The end of one stage is only the beginning of another. Any dangers overcome are the necessary preparation to do better in the next stage.(Life)
Finding something important in life does not mean that you must give up everything else.(Life)
When every day seems the same, it is because we have stopped noticing the good things that appear in our lives.(Life)
The magic moment is the moment when a 'yes' or a 'no' can change our whole existence.(Life)
When we postpone the harvest, the fruit rots, but when we postpone our problems, they keep on growing.(Life)
It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; What matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.(Life)
i am going to sit here with you by the river. if you go home to sleep, i will sleep in front of your house. and if you go away, i will follow you- until you tell me to go away. then i'll leave. but i have to love you for the rest of my life.(By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept)
i had fought against my heart, because i was afraid of sadness, suffering and abandonment. but now i knew that true love was above all that and that it would be better to die than fail to love.(By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept)
the wise are wise only because they love. and the foolish are foolish only because they think they can understand love.(By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept)
if pain must come, may it come quickly. because i have a life to live, and i need to live it in the best possible. if he has to make a choice, may he make it now. then i will either wait for him or forget him. waiting is painful. forgetting is painful. but not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.(By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept)
..and there are defeats. no one can avoid them. but it's better to lose the battles in the struggle for your dreams than be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for. the universe always helps us fight for our dreams, no matter how foolish they may be. our dreams are our own, and only we can know the effort required to keep them alive.(By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept)
Feelings should always be allowed to be free. You should not judge a future love by past suffering.(By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept)
Love does not ask many questions, because with thinking comes fear. This might be the fear of being scorned, of being rejected, or of breaking the spell. However ridiculous this may seem, that is how it is. This is why one does not ask, one acts.(By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept)
Anyone who loves needs to know both how to lose himself and how to find himself.(By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept)
Love is a complicated path, and that path can lead us up to heaven or hurl us down into hell.(By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept)
He who loves has conquered the world and has no fear of losing anything. True love is an act of total surrender.(By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept)
Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.(The Devil and Miss Prym)
She said she was neither happy nor unhappy,and that was why she couldn't go on.
Each person knows the extent
of their own suffering,
or the total absence of meaning in their lives.
(Veronika Decides to Die)
It is not enough to dream of the Impossible Love - it is necessary to conquer it too.(Veronika Decides to Die)
The warrior of light only risks his heart for something worthwhile.(Manual of the Warrior of the Light)
Carry in your memory, for the rest of your life, the good things that came out of those difficulties. They will serve as a proof of your abilities and will give you confidence when you are faced by other obstacles.(Manual of the Warrior of the Light)
Sometimes we have only ten minutes to be with the love of our life and thousands of hours to spend thinking about them.(Eleven Minutes)
Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.(Eleven Minutes)
f you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it.(The Fifth Mountain)
True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart.(Brida)
When we love, it is not necessary to understand what is happening outside, because everything begins to happen inside us instead.(The Alchemist)
When you love, things make even more sense.(The Alchemist)
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.(The Alchemist)
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.(The Alchemist)
That is why he is a Warrior of the Light, because he has been through all this and yet has never lost hope of being better than he is.(Warrior of the Light)
Every Warrior of the Light has hurt someone he loved.(Warrior of the Light)
Every Warrior of the Light has said 'yes' when he wanted to say 'no.'(Warrior of the Light)
Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties.(Warrior of the Light)
Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons. Every Warrior of the Light has, at least once, believed he was not a Warrior of the Light.(Warrior of the Light)
Every Warrior of the Light has trodden a path that was not his.(Warrior of the Light)
Every Warrior of the Light has, at some time in the past, lied or betrayed someone.(Warrior of the Light)
Every Warrior of the Light has felt afraid of going into battle.(Warrior of the Light)
We must buy jewelry; it identifies us with our tribe, just as body piercing identifies those of a different tribe.(The Zahir)
We must do jobs we detest because we are part of an organized society, and if everyone did what they wanted to do, the world would come to a standstill. (The Zahir)
When we marry, we are authorized to take possession of the other person, body and soul.(The Zahir)
Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and any suggestion that the heart might be larger than this is considered perverse.(The Zahir)
We must marry, have children, reproduce the species.(The Zahir)
People who are different are dangerous; they belong to another tribe; they want our lands and our women.(The Zahir)
We must study things we will never use, but which someone told us were important to know. (The Zahir)
We must have a university degree even if we never get a job in the area of knowledge we were forced to study.(The Zahir)
and that was why she couldn't go on.
Each person knows the extent
of their own suffering,
or the total absence of meaning in their lives.
(Veronika Decides to Die)