Paulo Coelho's Quotes of the Day #8

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world. (Brida)

It is not explanations that carry us forward, but our will to go on.

By changing the way you do routine things you allow a new person to grow inside you

We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are.

At every moment of our lives we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

it's hard to change the outside than the inside

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting...

Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the world tests everything that was learned along the way. It does not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we've moved toward that dream. That's the point at which most people give up. It's the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.'

the wise are wise only because they love and the foolish are foolish because they think they can understand love.

There are moments in life when the only possible option is to loose control.

Fine words are meaningless when we come face to face with suffering.

In our obsessive wish to arrive, we often forget the most important thing, which is the journey.

It is necessary to be humble in order to learn.

The search can be as interesting as the fear you feel, as long as you overcome that fear.

When we have great treasures before us, we can never see them.

There is always a right moment to stop something.

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.

“Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere

You’re someone who’s different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness.

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