More from Paulo Coelho
Don’t think about what you’ve left behind.
Paulo CoelhoPaulo Coelho When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.
Paulo CoelhoPaulo Coelho Don’t allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily.
Paulo CoelhoPaulo Coelho Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen.
Paulo CoelhoPaulo Coelho Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
Paulo CoelhoPaulo Coelho If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Paulo CoelhoPaulo Coelho People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.
Paulo CoelhoPaulo Coelho Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God.
Paulo CoelhoPaulo Coelho Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.
Paulo CoelhoPaulo Coelho Don’t listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people’s failures.
Paulo CoelhoPaulo Coelho Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you.
Paulo CoelhoPaulo Coelho Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
Paulo CoelhoPaulo Coelho The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions.
Paulo CoelhoPaulo Coelho To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only obligation.
Paulo CoelhoPaulo Coelho Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.
Paulo CoelhoPaulo Coelho You are what you believe yourself to be.
Paulo CoelhoPaulo Coelho
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