Monday, October 3, 2011

By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept: Quotes By Paulo Coelho




-          Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary.
-          The heart decides, and what it decides is all that really matters.
-          The more we love, the closer we come to spiritual experience.
-          But wisdom is justified by all her children. ( Luke 7:35)
-          Perhaps love makes us old before our time – or young, if youth has passed.
-          Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.
-          Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
-          There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end.
-          Love doesn’t need to be discussed; it has its own voice and speaks for itself.
-          The Buddhists were right, the Hindus were right, the Muslims were right and so were the Jews. Whenever someone follows the path to faith – sincerely follows it – he or she is able to unite with God and to perform miracles.
-          God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.
-          Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
-          Love can only be found through the act of loving.
-          I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.
-          We are born, we suffer, we die and the mountains endure.
-          Every person on earth has a gift. In some, the gift manifests itself spontaneously; others have to work to discover what it is.
-          I saw nothing – only the darkness that engulfed me.
-          Life existed before we were born and will continue to exist after we leave this world. It’s the same with love. It existed before and will go on forever.
-          Love perseveres. It’s men who change.