Paulo Coelho: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 11)

“God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.”

“No matter how you feel today, get up, dress up & show up”

“If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.”

“Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.”

“People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.”

“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”

“Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to
give up all the other important things.”

“So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.”

“People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.”

“Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.”

“Feelings do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don’t know, but it’s a world where there’s no time, so space, no frontiers.”

“Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.”

“Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.”

“We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.”

“The wise are wise only because they love.”

“But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.”

“The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said:
"I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.”

“She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.”

“That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.”