Not knowing whether to wait or to forget is the worst kind of suffering. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Since the dawn of time man understands that suffering, faced with no fear, is his passport to freedom. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Feelings should always be allowed to be free. You should not judge a future love by past suffering. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I am not saying that I am different, but I don't have emotional pain. I may be angry and I may be… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Suffering when cannot be avoided, is to help your way to glory…all rivers flow into the same sea.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we want to be loved.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
He seemed to be talking about my fears, my insecurity, and my unwillingness to see what was wonderful because tomorrow it might… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. Each person knows the extent of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horros in other people's lives as if they… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“But ultimately there is no good reason for our suffering, for in every love lies the seed of our growth. The more… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Why don’t people’s hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams?” the boy asked the alchemist. “Because that’s what makes a… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Because after having overcome the defeats - and we always overcome them - we feel much more euphoria and confidence. In the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“4 the first time, I will avoid anything that makes me suffer, because suffering is not a virtue.. I will not complain… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Comparing is empoverishing our own experience. There is meaning to our suffering, if we rise above it.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
But if you've ever felt love, you'll know how painful it is to suffer for love. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Of all the ways we have found to hurt ourselves, the worse has been through love. We are always suffering because of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The girl would grow up marked by tragedy and, when she was twenty, would use her own suffering to help alleviate that… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You dont choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It is not enough to dream of the Impossible Love - it is necessary to conquer it too. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Joy is like sex – it begins and ends. I want pleasure. I want to be contended, but happiness? I no longer fall into… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The simpler the pose, the better; the more sober, the more beautiful.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
