It is very common for people to invent something that does not exist, and not to draw the most useful lessons from what is before our eyes.
There are defeats. And no one in the world is immune from them, moreover, no one will escape them. Therefore, it is better to fight for the fulfillment of your dream and lose several battles in this war than to be defeated and at the same time not even know what you were fighting for.
If I do exactly the things that people expect from me, I will fall into their slavery.
And the ability to satisfy their physical needs.
A madman is one who lives in his own special world.
In sex, it is hard for one to deceive the other, because there everyone shows himself as he is.
What you are looking for is also looking for you.
Instead of cursing where you fell, you should try to find out what made you fall in the first place.
A person always has everything to fulfill his dream.
A person must choose, not accept his fate.
The path that is determined by Your Destiny is as difficult as any other, with the only difference being that your heart will be there.
We always know which way is the best. But we follow the usual.
Never give up on a dream! Dreams nourish our soul, just as food nourishes the body. No matter how many times in life we have to go through a crash and see our hopes shattered, we must still continue to dream.
Where we are expected, we always find ourselves right on time.
Every person on earth, no matter what he does, plays a major role in the history of the world. And usually they don't even know about it.
Everyone has meaning in life, it is enough to see it.
Life is sometimes surprisingly stingy - for whole days, weeks, months, years a person does not receive a single new sensation. And then he opens the door - and an avalanche falls on him.
We usually appreciate what came from afar and rarely pay attention to the beauty around us.
When you really want something, the whole Universe will help to ensure that your desire comes true.
Just because you've been discharged from an insane asylum doesn't mean you've been cured. You just became like everyone else.
I began to understand that the lack of meaning in life is only my fault.
The most profound changes - both in the human soul and in the life of society - occur in a very short time. At the moment when we least expect it, life challenges us to test our courage and our desire for change; and does not allow us to pretend that nothing is happening, or excuse ourselves by saying that we are not ready yet. The call must be answered immediately.
Quotes from "Paulo Coelho"
There are people who were born into the world to go through life alone, this is not bad and not good, this is life.
Feeling unhappy all the time is an unaffordable luxury.
What seems to be something terrible at the beginning of the path, at the end is already given out as a mere trifle.
Crazy people are not necessarily mentally ill, maybe they are just not like everyone else.
Sometimes you have to die to start living.
They love not for something, they love just like that.
Having reached the end, people laugh at the fears that tormented them at the beginning.
Everything in the world is a different manifestation of the same thing.
Quotes by Paulo Coelho
When you find something important in life, it does not mean that you have to renounce everything else.
If you are able to see the beautiful, it is only because you carry the beautiful within yourself. For the world is like a mirror in which everyone sees his own reflection.
Every day carries a particle of eternity.
The strongest love is the one that is not afraid to show weakness.
To live means to consciously live every moment, and not to think about the meaning of life for days on end.
People want to change everything and at the same time want everything to remain the same.
Better live as if today is the first or last day of your life.
Life doesn't always give you a second try, and the gifts it sometimes gives you are best accepted.
If on the way to achieving the goal you are driven by the force of desire, then you will definitely achieve it.
Peru cult writer Paulo Coelho own no less than 18 books: novels, anthologies, collections of short stories, parables, and their circulation already exceeds 350 million copies. It is read and loved all over the world.
Paulo Coelho, like no one else, knows how to help you look at life from a different angle, find the great in the small, look at life with optimism and find the strength to love in yourself.
We have collected for you 30 best Paulo Coelho quotes about love and life, which may help you understand something important for yourself:
Sometimes you need to go around the world to understand that the treasure is buried at your own house..
If you are able to see the beautiful, it is only because you carry the beautiful within yourself. For the world is like a mirror in which everyone sees his own reflection.
What happened once may never happen again. But what happened twice will certainly happen a third time.
When you really want something, the whole Universe will contribute to making your wish come true..
If I do exactly the things that people expect from me, I will fall into their slavery.
Life is always waiting for the right moment to act.
Getting lost is the best way to find something interesting.
The darkest hour is before dawn.
If a person is yours, then he is yours, and if he is drawn to somewhere else, then nothing will hold him back, and he is not worth either nerves or attention.
Everything in the world is a different manifestation of the same.
Everyone says anything in the back, but in the eyes - what is beneficial.
If love changes a person quickly, then despair - even faster.
Where they are waiting for us, we always find ourselves right on time..
Life is sometimes surprisingly stingy - for whole days, weeks, months, years a person does not receive a single new sensation. And then he opens the door - and a whole avalanche falls on him.
Waiting is the hardest part.
Our angels are always with us and often they use someone's lips to tell us something.
Feeling unhappy all the time is an unaffordable luxury..
There are people who were born into the world to go through life alone, this is not bad and not good, this is life.
Never give up on a dream! Dreams nourish our soul, just as food nourishes the body. No matter how many times in life we have to go through a crash and see our hopes shattered, we must still continue to dream.
Sometimes you have to run to see who runs after you. Sometimes you have to speak softer to see who is really listening to you. Sometimes you have to take a step back to see who else is on your side. Sometimes you have to make the wrong decisions to see who's with you when things fall apart.
Once I found all the answers, all the questions changed.
We say the most important words in our lives in silence.
Sometimes you have to die to start living.
People want to change everything and at the same time want everything to remain the same.
What you are looking for is also looking for you.
Always say what you feel and do what you think! Silence breaks fate...
Man does the opposite. He hurries to become an adult, and then sighs about the past childhood. Spends health for money and immediately spends money to improve health. He thinks about the future with such impatience that he neglects the present, because of which he has neither a present nor a future. Lives as if he will never die, and dies as if he never lived.
Having reached the end, people laugh at the fears that tormented them at the beginning.
It happens sometimes that life separates two people - just to show both how important they are to each other.
Everything always ends well. If everything ended badly, then this is not the end.
Love is able to mold any person out of us, transforming the essence and character beyond recognition.
Every person has access to the Universe with its infinity and immensity. So, any wish will come true, if you really want it. Such is the true and secret destiny of man on Mother Earth. - Paulo Coelho
Everything will always be excellent or just good. When it's bad, better times will soon come, when the good will prevail over the bad.
The most significant meetings always take place at the turn of events, when the quality of things is reborn and fateful decisions can lead to no return. In an extreme situation, the brain automatically chooses the right path.
P. Coelho Everyone is dissatisfied with his life, but he is not able to improve his fate as it should be. The resemblance to a gypsy is clear - she predicts dreams masterfully, but the fortuneteller does not have the courage, strength, talent and skill to turn them into reality.
Love is a thorny road. Now her path drags slowly up to heaven, then it swiftly flies along a winding path into the abyss to hell.
There is no fulfilling life without risk. Readiness for surprises gives impetus to accomplishments and actions, then we will get the desired result from life.
The thought is material. A person wants strongly - the Universe and the Cosmos will fulfill dreams.
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The best way to weaken the enemy is to convince him that you are giving in to him and agreeing with his intentions.
The most profound changes - both in the human soul and in the life of society - occur in a very short time. At the moment when we least expect it, life challenges us to test our courage and our desire for change; and does not allow us to pretend that nothing is happening, or excuse ourselves by saying that we are not ready yet. The call must be answered immediately.
If you are able to see the beautiful, it is only because you carry the beautiful within yourself. For the world is like a mirror in which everyone sees his own reflection.
You always need to know when the next stage of your life ends. The circle closes, the door closes, the chapter ends - no matter what you call it, it is important to leave in the past what already belongs to the past ...
A person must choose, not accept his fate.
The path that is determined by Your Destiny is as difficult as any other, with the only difference being that your heart will be there.
A madman is one who lives in his own special world.
When God wants to drive a person crazy, he begins to fulfill all his desires.
The sages have long understood that our world is created in the image and likeness of paradise. The very existence of this world is a guarantee that there is another, more perfect one. Alchemist
In sex, it is hard for one to deceive the other, because there everyone shows himself as he is.
The loss of those I fell in love with hurt my soul before. Now I am convinced: no one can lose anyone, because no one belongs to anyone.
A person always has everything to fulfill his dream.
No one lights a candle to keep it outside the door, because the light then exists to shine, to open people's eyes, to show what miracles are around.
It is good to give when asked, but it is a hundred times better to entrust everything to the one who did not ask for anything.
In order to start a spiritual life, one does not need to go to seminary, fast, be a teetotaler, and shun women. It is enough to believe in God and accept Him.
Every person on earth, no matter what he does, plays a major role in the history of the world. And usually they don't even know about it.
If I do exactly the things that people expect from me, I will fall into their slavery.
There is always something incomplete in desire. For, when fulfilled, it ceases to be a desire.
Instead of cursing where you fell, you should try to find out what made you fall in the first place.
There are defeats. And no one in the world is immune from them, moreover, no one will escape them. Therefore, it is better to fight for the fulfillment of your dream and lose several battles in this war than to be defeated and at the same time not even know what you were fighting for.
Yes, happiness sometimes descends to us as grace, but much more often it is victory and overcoming.
To live a full life, one must be in constant motion, and only then will one day be different from the next.
Nothing changes with death ... Others took the place of those who were out of action, and life went on.
A person does not understand that, having realized the inevitability of death, he will be able to dare more, will be able to go further in his daily conquests - for if Death is inevitable, then he has nothing to lose.
It is in him, in the present, that the whole secret is. If you give it the attention it deserves, you can improve it. And if you improve your current situation, you will make the future favorable as well. Do not worry about the future, live in the present, and let your every day pass as commanded by the Law. Believe that the Almighty takes care of his children. Every day carries a particle of eternity.
The moment we enter the path we have chosen, all other paths disappear.
Not a single heart suffers when it goes in search of its dream, because every moment of this search is a meeting with God and Eternity.
The fear of making a mistake is the door that locks us into the castle of mediocrity. If we overcome this fear, we will take an important step towards our freedom.
Most primitive civilizations have a custom of burying their dead in the fetal position. “He will be born again, in another life, and we must put him in the same position in which he came into this world,” they say. For these civilizations, death was just another step on the universal ladder. Gradually the world lost its quiet acceptance of death. But no matter what we think, or what we do, or what we believe: each of us will die one day. Better to do what the old Yaqui Indians did: treat death as a consultant. Always ask, "What am I going to do before I die?"
Money brings ... no, not happiness, but money.
“Incompatibility is not to show the lack of elitism” (c)
Sometimes you need to go around the whole world to understand that the treasure is buried at your own house.
Feeling unhappy all the time is an unaffordable luxury.
Sex is the art of harnessing the unbridled.
"The earth produces enough to satisfy wants, but not enough to satisfy greed."
What happened once may never happen again. But what happened twice will certainly happen a third time.
The fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself. And not a single heart suffers when it goes in search of its dreams, because every moment of this search is a meeting with God and with Eternity.
True love does not require reciprocity, and those who want to receive a reward for their love are wasting their time.
Only one thing makes the fulfillment of a dream impossible, and that is the fear of failure.
If things aren't going well, there are only two explanations: either your perseverance is being tested, or you need to change direction. In order to discover which of these explanations is correct - especially since they are opposite - use silence and prayer. Gradually things will become surprisingly clean until you have enough power to choose.
Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.
It is necessary to take risks. The miracle of life can only be fully realized when we are prepared for the unexpected to happen.
A person allows himself the luxury of being crazy only when the conditions for this are created for him.
Everything will happen as it is written by God… Troubles happen in our life, we cannot prevent them. But they happen for a reason. - For what reason? “That is a question we cannot answer before or during adversity. Only after overcoming them, we understand why they were needed.
To live life to the fullest, one must be in constant motion, and only then will one day be different from another.
“I live not in the past and not in the future, but now, and only the present minute interests me. If you could always stay in the present, you would be the happiest of mortals... Life would then be an eternal and never-ending holiday, because there would be nothing in it but the present moment.”
There is no escape from misfortune. We can find a reason, blame other people, imagine what our life would be like if there were no trouble. But all this does not matter: the misfortune has already happened. From now on, we must forget the fear that it caused in us and begin a rebirth.
Each of us is responsible for the feelings we experience, and we have no right to blame the other for this.
Every day God sends us - along with the sun - the opportunity to change everything that makes us unhappy. And every day we try to pretend that we do not notice this possibility, that it does not exist at all, that today is in everything like yesterday and indistinguishable from tomorrow. But those who look closely at their day will find this magical moment.
Once I found all the answers, all the questions changed.
Sometimes it is easier to get an answer by silence than by asking questions.
Why on earth did it suddenly occur to me to save the whole world? After all, I still can hardly save myself.
It is in fairy tales that you kiss a toad and it becomes a handsome prince. in life it's the other way around - you kiss the prince and he becomes a disgusting toad.
This is a strange thing, LOVE ... Yesterday you didn’t know a person yet ... and today you can’t live a day without him ... you think about him ... you are waiting for when you can say a few words to him, or write something ... and so day after day ... But you have never even seen this person once ... You just exchanged photos, gave some advice ... and then ... and then you suddenly realized that ... you need this person more than anything ... even more than you need yourself ... You probably remember the legend that at one time the Gods divided people into two halves ... and for a person to be happy, he must find his half ... Here is the very case ... You are the very half that I was looking for ... I searched for a long time ... and found … I LOVE YOU… Unfortunately, I can’t be around now… and it oppresses me no less than you… And yet imagine our first meeting… to this melody… standing on the bridge… holding hands… looking into each other’s eyes… just stand, say nothing ... and so everything is clear ...
Dreams are the language in which the Lord speaks to us. When it is one of the languages of the world, I can translate from it. But if the Lord speaks to you in the language of your soul, he will be intelligible to you alone.
When a person follows the path of his destiny, he often has to change direction. Sometimes external circumstances are stronger, and he has to give in. All this is part of the lesson.
Life is very fast paced; in an instant we fall from heaven into the very underworld.
The duel of Good and Evil takes place every second in the heart of every person, for the heart is the battlefield where angels and demons fight
Everything has a price, but price is always relative. When we follow our dreams, we can give the impression to others that we are miserable and unlucky. But it doesn't matter what others think. Joy in our heart is important.
Change happens only when we go against what we are accustomed to.
Madness is the inability to communicate one's perception to others.
Two deaths will not happen... Is it all the same: tomorrow it will happen or on any other day? Every day is good to be lived or to be the last.
The world is a joint dream of the gods.
I would like to have a person next to me, in whose presence my heart would beat evenly and evenly, a person next to whom I would be calm, because I would not be afraid to lose him the next day. And time would then flow more slowly, and we could just be silent, knowing that we still have a whole life ahead of us to talk ...
To die following Your Destiny is much better than to accept death, like thousands of people who do not even suspect the existence of the Way.
The fear of making a mistake is the door that locks us into the castle of mediocrity. If we overcome this fear, we will take an important step towards our freedom.
Everything always turns out well. If things aren't going well, it's because you haven't reached the end yet.
There are times in life when God requires us to obey. But sometimes He calls us to struggle to test our will. This is how He makes us feel His love.
Being consistent means always wearing one sock.
“There is only one way to comprehend… Act. The sages have long understood that our world is created in the image and likeness of paradise. The very existence of this world is a guarantee that there is another, more perfect one. The Almighty created it so that people could see the spiritual through the visible and marvel at the wonders of their own wisdom. This is what I call Action.”
Waiting is painful. Forgetting hurts. But the worst of suffering is not knowing what decision to make.
In our time, people have lost interest in life: they do not get bored, do not cry, they just wait for time to pass. They have given up the struggle, and life has given up on them. This threatens you too: act, boldly go forward, but do not give up on life.
Every day, every hour of our lives is a moment of the Glorious Battle. Gradually, we will learn to joyfully perceive and enjoy every moment of life.
Fear ends where the inevitable begins.
If your old life oppresses you, forget about it as soon as possible ... Come up with a new story of your life and believe in it. Remember only your victories, and this will help you achieve what you want.
To live life and achieve the realization of one's destiny means to go through a number of stages, the meaning of which is often beyond our understanding.
Both a man and a woman are absolutely vulnerable to the power of sex, because there pleasure and fear are equally important.
To live a real life, you need to take risks.
When we want something, we make a choice and pay a price. To follow your dreams, you have to pay a price. This may require us to leave old habits, it may create problems for us, and bring disappointment. But, no matter how high the price, it is never as high as we pay for not being able to live our personal destiny.
They have given up the struggle, and life has given up on them.
Some events occur in our lives in order to return us to the true path of Destiny. Others are needed in order for us to apply our knowledge in life. And some events are meant to teach us.
Nothing in the world is completely wrong. Even a broken clock shows the exact time twice a day.
Do you see the Fifth Mountain? Elijah asked. – From whichever side you look at it, it will seem different, although it is still the same mountain. This is how everything that surrounds us is: they are different faces of the same God.
Rich people don't throw money down the drain - only poor people behave like that.
Man is a fragile creature, and therefore he always tries to hide from himself the great immutability of death. He is unaware that it is she who encourages him to create all the best that is in life.
When we begin to think about what decision to make, as a rule, we do nothing at all. Because it takes much more courage to act with a premeditated intention than to act spontaneously...
No one owns anything, everything in the world is illusory and unsteady - and this applies to both material wealth and spiritual values. A person who has happened to lose something that, as he thought, will be his forever (and this happened to me often), eventually learns that nothing belongs to him.
If you're still alive, it's because you haven't arrived at the place you need to go to.
They love because they love. Love does not recognize arguments.
It is dangerous to try to be like everyone else: it causes neurosis, psychosis, paranoia. It is dangerous to want to be like everyone else, because it means raping nature, going against the laws of God, who in all the forests and groves of the world has not created even two identical leaves.
We always know which path is the best, but we follow the most familiar.
Once upon a time, extraordinary people lived on earth. They had four arms, four legs, two heads. They were wonderful! It was a man and a woman merged into one. In the entire universe there was no being more beautiful and stronger.
Evolution is constantly taking place on earth - we, nature, the world are changing. The earth is alive, its soul trembles when we feel bad. The earthly Soul protects and preserves us.
Judging another is stupid - you will waste your spiritual strength in vain. You won’t achieve any sense - you will turn others against yourself, you will lose peace. If you cross the invisible line of the depth of your suffering, you can imperceptibly lose the meaning of your existence.
Crazy people live in their secluded world, not letting anyone in. According to the degree of insanity, these types of people are called schizophrenics, blissful, psychopaths or maniacs. - Paulo Coelho
Life guides you on the path of destiny. So that you don’t get lost, he throws you pieces of luck, rides on the wheel of fortune or demonstrates an attraction - luck.
Strong love is strong in weakness. Real passion takes precedence over jealousy, heals spiritual wounds, eases suffering, relieves pain, dissolving in beautiful love.
Paulo Coelho: I am a tiny particle of your destiny, which will invariably collect its fragments around the planet, pulling me to your heart.
Responsibility over feelings requires reflection. Shifting your mistakes to others is pointless.
Don't call me a body that has a soul. I feel like a soul, whose shell is a body.
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I sank to the bottom of my own soul and now I know that there is much, much more beauty in this life.
A person must choose, not accept his fate.
Instead of buying something that you would like, I give you mine, which actually belongs to me. This is a gift. This is a sign of respect for the person who is next to me. This is a request to understand how important it is that he is next to me. I, of my own free will, from a pure heart, give you an object that contains a particle of myself.
If one leaves, then in order to make room for another.
When you love, you can neither stand still like the desert, nor rush around the world like the wind, nor look at everything from afar, like the sun. Love is the power that transforms and improves the Soul. When I penetrated it for the first time, it seemed perfect to me. But then I saw that she was a reflection of all of us, that her passions, her wars, were seething in her too. It is we who feed it, and the land on which we live will become better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. This is where the power of love intervenes, because when you love, you strive to become better.
And when the paths of these two converge, when their eyes meet, both the past and the future lose all meaning, and there is only this one minute and the incredible confidence that everything in the world was written by the same hand. This hand awakens love in the soul and searches for a twin soul for anyone who works, rests or looks for treasures. Otherwise, the dreams with which we overwhelm the human race would not have the slightest meaning.
She will never find what she is looking for until she can express what she thinks.
The secret of happiness is to see everything that is wonderful and glorious in the world, and never forget about two tablespoons of oil in a teaspoon.
It just so happened that in the year of her fifteenth birthday, Maria, in addition to what she learned - you need to kiss with your mouth open, and love brings only suffering, made another discovery. Masturbation.
When the same people are around you - ... - then it seems to happen by itself that they enter your life. And having entered your life, after a while they want to change it. And if you do not become the way they want to see you, they are offended. After all, everyone knows exactly how to live in the world. For some reason, no one can manage their own life.
To meet with suffering, no theater is needed - life presents us with this opportunity at almost every step.
Life is interesting because in it dreams can come true.
Life loves to escalate darkness in order to later shine brighter with its bright side. - Paulo Coelho
Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.
One happy day is almost a miracle.
People fight to live, not to commit suicide.
Love, indeed, like nothing else, is able from time to time to turn a person's whole life upside down. But in pursuit of love comes something else, which also forces a person to embark on a path that he had never thought of before. This is something called desperation. And if love changes a person quickly, then despair - even faster.
Maybe this is just a legend that you need to believe in order for at least some meaning to appear in human life.
The deepest, most sincere desire is the desire to be close to someone. Further already - reactions: a man and a woman come into play, but what precedes this - mutual attraction - cannot be explained. It is desire in its purest form.
When you love, you can become anyone. When you love, there is absolutely no need to understand what is happening, because everything happens inside us, so that a person is quite capable of turning into the wind.
For children, time passes more slowly than for adults.
If God's blessing is not accepted, it turns into a curse. I don’t want anything more from life, and you make me discover unknown distances in it. I look at them, realize my unheard-of possibilities and feel worse than before. For now I know that I can have everything, and I do not need it.
When you want something, the whole Universe will contribute to making your desire come true.
We are insane, as everyone who discovers love is insane. Love is the great madness of man and woman.
Gain strength, as befits a warrior before the battle. But do not forget that your heart is where the treasure is. And they must be found, because only in this way everything that you understood and felt on the way to them will make sense. - Alchemist
A dream is a very convenient thing, because we are not at all obliged to realize what we dream about. We are freed from risk, from the bitterness of failure, from difficult moments, and when we grow old, we can always blame someone - whether parents (this happens most often), spouses, children - that we did not achieve what we wanted.
It is impossible to say to spring: Come immediately and last as long as necessary. One can only say: Come fall over me with the grace of hope and stay with me as long as possible.
Life is too short to have the luxury of living it so badly.
Only one thing makes the fulfillment of a dream impossible - it is the fear of failure.
Time does not change a person, wisdom does not change a person, and the only thing that can rebuild the structure of his thoughts and feelings is love.
Life is a spicy, dazzling game, it's a parachute jump, it's a risk, you fall, but you get back on your feet, it's what is called getting out of your skin, it's longing and annoyance if you don't succeed in accomplishing what you intended.
Life is very fast paced; in an instant we fall from heaven into the very underworld.
The wound in my heart, no matter how severe it may be, will heal, and the ability to comprehend the beauty of life will return to me.
In general, men are a very strange tribe. Yes, they threaten, scream, they can beat, but without exception, everyone goes crazy with fear of a woman. Maybe not in front of the one who was taken as a wife, but there will certainly be one who will subjugate them and force them to fulfill all their whims. Sometimes it's the mother.
There is one great truth on this planet: no matter who you are and what you do, when you truly desire something, you will achieve it, because such a desire originated in the soul of the universe. And that is your purpose on earth.
The roles are changing. One does not exist without the other. No one can humiliate until he himself is humiliated.
Here it is, true freedom - to have what is most dear to you, but not to own it. – Eleven minutes
Let's love each other, but let's not try to own each other.
Perhaps God created the desert so that man would smile at the trees.
Life is sometimes surprisingly stingy - for whole days, weeks, months, years a person does not receive a single new sensation. And then he opens the door - and an avalanche falls on him.
And Faith exists only because people have it. - Alchemist
And don't worry too much about love - at first I didn't love your father at all, but money can buy everything in the world - including true love.
him to marry, have children, live in a house by the sea.
The loss of those I fell in love with hurt my soul before. Now I am convinced: no one can lose anyone, because no one belongs to anyone. Here it is, true freedom - to have what is most dear to you, but not to own it.
Only one thing makes the fulfillment of a dream impossible - it is the fear of failure.
Open a book on any page, look at the hands of a person, shuffle a deck of cards, follow the flight of a hawk in the sky - you will certainly find a connection with what you are living at this moment. And the point here is not so much in the things themselves, but in the fact that people, looking at them, discover for themselves a way to penetrate the Soul of the World. - Alchemist
We never realize what treasures are before us. Do you know why? Because people don't believe in treasures at all.
No one can lose anyone, because no one belongs to anyone.
Many people talk about the misfortunes of others as if they would like to help them with all their might, while in fact they secretly feel some kind of gloating, because against the background of other people's suffering they feel happier, not deprived of fate.
Some events occur in our lives in order to return us to the true path of Destiny. Others are needed in order for us to apply our knowledge in life. And some events are meant to teach us.
We are all afraid of losing what we have, whether it is our crops or life itself. But this fear passes, one has only to understand that both our history and the history of the world are written by the same hand.
All nations have this saying: Out of sight, out of mind. I say that there is nothing more false in the world. The farther from the eyes, the closer to the heart. Being in exile and in a foreign land, we lovingly cherish in memory any little thing that reminds us of our homeland. Yearning in separation from those we love, in every passer-by on the street we see dear features.
There are people who were born into the world to go through life alone, this is not bad and not good, this is life.
I am exactly the same as everyone else; I take wishful thinking and see the world not as it really is, but as I want to see it.
If what you find is made of good material, no damage will touch it. And you can safely return. If it was only a momentary flash, like the birth of a star, then when you return you will not find anything. But you saw a blinding light. So it was worth it anyway.
Every day God sends us - along with the sun - the opportunity to change everything that makes us unhappy. And every day we try to pretend that we do not notice this possibility, that it does not exist at all, that today is in everything like yesterday and indistinguishable from tomorrow. But those who look closely at their day will find this magical moment.
No matter what a person says, no matter how verbally he rejects pain, he will always find a means and a way to find it, fall in love with it, make it become a part of his life.
When I had nothing to lose, I gained everything. When I stopped being who I was, I found myself. when I knew humiliation and still continued on my way, I realized that I was free to choose my fate
The original sin is not that Eve tasted the forbidden fruit, but that she understood that Adam should share with her what she tasted. Eva was afraid to walk her paths alone, without help and support, and therefore she wanted to share with someone what she felt.
Ever since we were expelled from paradise, we either suffer, or inflict suffering on others, or watch this suffering. And you can't handle it.
What does the world want from me? So I don't risk it? To return to where she came from and not dare to say yes to life?
When a person has extracted his dream from the bottom of his soul and fed it for many years with the power of his love, not noticing the scars and scars left on his heart after a hard struggle for its realization, he suddenly begins to notice that what he has been wishing for so long is already very close. and is about to come true - perhaps tomorrow; it is at this stage that the last obstacle awaits him: the fear of fulfilling the dream of his whole life.
Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.
What happened once may never happen again. But what happened twice will certainly happen a third time.
Stop constantly thinking that you are in the way of everyone! If someone does not like it, he will complain. And if he lacks the courage to complain, then that's his problem.
Betrayal is a blow you don't expect.
If you want something, the whole Universe will contribute to making your desire come true.
Men are always scared when they hear from a woman: I want to depend on you.
Here it is, true freedom - to have what is most dear to you, but not to own it.
The Marquis de Sade argued that a person can know his essence only by reaching the last line. To do this, we need all our courage - and only in this way do we learn something. – Eleven minutes
She liked to imagine herself as an experienced girl who once missed her lover, failed to save passion, knows how painful the loss is, and now she decided to fight with all her might for this man, for marrying
Sex is the art of harnessing the unbridled.
Every day is good to be lived or to be the last. - Alchemist
Santiago suddenly realized that he could look at the world as a poor victim of a crook, or maybe as a brave man who went in search of adventure and treasure. There was always a choice. - Alchemist
Everyone in the world wants happiness - and no one succeeds.
Two women coexist in me: one wants to get from life all the passion, joy, adventure that it can give. And the other wants to become a slave to a quiet everyday life, a family hearth, everything that can be planned and executed. I am a mother of a family and a prostitute at the same time, and both live in my body and fight with each other.
I guessed what a man pays a woman for: he wants to be happy.
Every moment is a meeting, Santiago told his heart. - While I was looking for my treasure, all the days were illuminated by a magical light, for I knew that with every hour I was getting closer to the realization of my dream. - Alchemist
On August 24, Paulo Coelho celebrates his birthday - the famous writer, whose circulation of books exceeds 300 million.
The secret of the popularity of Coelho's works lies in their amazing wisdom and, at the same time, intelligibility. Quotes from them can be used as a collection of guiding phrases.
"The Magician's Diary"
"People tend to invent something that does not exist, and do not learn the most useful lessons from what is in front of us."
“We always know which way is the best. But we follow the more usual.
"Alchemist"
“Everyone has their own way of learning. He doesn't like mine, and I don't like his. But both of us are looking for our own Path, and for this alone I cannot but respect him.”
"I'm afraid that when the dream becomes a reality, I will no longer have anything to live in the world."
“Remember: you always need to know exactly what you want.”
“When you really want something, the whole Universe will help to ensure that your desire comes true.”
"Eleven Minutes"
“Life loves to escalate darkness in order to later shine brighter with its bright side.”
“Better live like today is the first (or last) day of your life.”
"Life doesn't always give you a second try, and the gifts it sometimes gives you are best accepted."
"Life is too short - or too long - to have the luxury of living it so badly."
"The Fifth Mountain"
“A child is always able to teach an adult three lessons: he is cheerful for no reason, always busy with something and knows how to achieve what he wants at any cost.”
"Man must choose his fate, not accept it."
"Veronica Decides to Die"
"We all need a little madness."
“Stop constantly thinking that you are in the way of everyone! If someone does not like it, he will complain. And if he doesn't have the courage to complain, that's his problem."
"Brida"
"When you find something important in life, it does not mean that you have to renounce everything else."
“How much do we lose because we are afraid to lose.”
“Having reached the end, people laugh at the fears that tormented them at the beginning.”
"On the banks of the Rio Piedra, I sat down and cried"
“Love is like a dam: if you leave at least a tiny hole where a thin trickle of water can penetrate, then soon the walls will collapse under its pressure, and a moment will come when no one will be able to hold back the force of the flow. If the walls collapse, love will take possession of everything and will prevail over everything: it doesn’t care what is possible and what is not, it doesn’t care if we can keep our beloved close by, love is uncontrollable.
"Only he is happy who is able to spread happiness."
"Aleph"
"We usually appreciate what comes from afar and rarely pay attention to the beauty around us."
“We are never what others want us to be. We are who we want to be. It's easy to blame others. One can spend one's life cursing the world, but our successes and failures are entirely up to us."
“Only mediocrity is always confident, so take a chance and do what you really want to do. Look for people who are not afraid to make mistakes and who, of course, make mistakes.”
“To live means to consciously live every moment, and not to think about it for days on end.
