Life attracts life.
Paulo Coelho
Profession: Novelist Nationality: Brazilian
There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.
Tragedy always brings about radical change in our lives, a change that is associated with the same principle: loss.
I want and need to like myself again; I have to convince myself that I'm capable of taking my own decision.
When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you, and even men can turn themselves into the wind. As long as the wind helps, of course.
I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.
We are all souls wandering the cosmos and, at the same time, living our lives, but with a sense that we are passing from one incarnation to another. If something touches to the code of our soul, it is remembered for ever and affects whatever comes afterwards.
Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.
I'm not happy, he says. I have everything a man could dream of, but I'm not happy.
The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes.
If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.
Things are never absolute; they depend on each individual's perceptions.
I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
When we want something, we have to have a clear purpose in mind for the thing that we want. The only reason for seeking a reward is to know what to do with that reward.