Paulo Coelho's Quotes of the Day #6

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy.

Those who look on other people’s misery with indifference are the most miserable of all.

Sometimes we have only ten minutes to be with the love of our life and thousands of hours to spend thinking about them.

Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Look me in the eye and never forget what I'm about to tell you <3

Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World, and it will one day return there.

Those who never take risks can only see other people’s failures.

Everyone has a treasure that is waiting just for him.

All battles have some use, including those in which we were defeated.

People always arrive promptly at the places where they are expected.

Seize every opportunity that life offers you because, when opportunities go, they take a long time to come back

If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man.

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 to the end.

Love gives us the strength to perform impossible tasks.

Faith is difficult to conquer and requires daily battles if it is to be maintained.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path

A philosophy of life: I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure.

Each human being was given two qualities: power & the gift. Power directs us towards our destiny; the gift obliges us to share with others what is best in us.

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