Quotes I love from Paulo Coelho’s books,
Life: Selected Quotations
Seize every opportunity that life offers you because, when opportunities go, they take a long time to come back.
THE FIFTH MOUNTAIN
When every day seems the same, it is because we have stopped noticing the good things that appear in our lives.
THE ALCHEMIST
Profound commitment to a dream does not confine or constrain: it liberates. Even a difficult, winding path can lead to your goal if you follow it to the end.
MAKTUB
Every day of life is a dark night. No one knows what will happen in the next moment, and yet people still go forward. Because they trust. Because they have faith.
BRIDA
Courage is the most important gift for anyone seeking to understand the Language of the World.
THE ALCHEMIST
Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.
ELEVEN MINUTES
Decisions are only the beginning of something. When someone makes a decision he is, in fact, plunging into a powerful current that carries him to a place he had never even dreamed of when he made that initial decision.
THE ALCHEMIST
Whenever we need to make a very hard decision, it is best to trust to impulse, to passion, because reason usually tries to remove us from our dream, saying that the time is not yet right. Reason is afraid of defeat, but intuition enjoys life and its challenges.
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH DELIVERED TO THE BRAZILIAN ACADEMY OF LETTERS
It is important to take from what we see every day the secrets that routine prevents us from perceiving.
THE PILGRIMAGE
Every day, God gives us, as well as the sun, a moment when it is possible to change anything that is causing us unhappiness. The magic moment is the moment when a “yes” or a “no” can change our whole existence. Every day, we try to pretend that we do not see that moment, that is does not exist, that today is the same as yesterday and that tomorrow will be the same too. However, anyone who pays close attention to his day will discover the magic moment. It might be hidden in the instant that we put the key in the door in the morning, in the moment of silence after supper, in the thousand and one things that appear to us to be the same. This moment exists, a moment in which all the strength of the stars flows through us and allows us to perform miracles.
BY THE RIVER PIEDRA I SAT DOWN AND WEPT
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