Quotes

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” - Lance Armstrong

 “A life without a cause, is a life without effect” –Paulo Coelho

“You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it” –Paulo Coelho

"It's heart breaking/warming to watch someone you care about soar to new heights. You miss who they were before they knew who they are." -Dane Cook

«People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.» — Paulo Coelho

«When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.» — Paulo Coelho

«We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation.» — Paulo Coelho

«I learned that the search for God is a Dark Night, that Faith is a Dark Night. And that's hardly a surprise really, because for us, each day is a dark night. None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, and yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.» — Paulo Coelho

«If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.» — Paulo Coelho

«What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows. -Nabil Alaihi» — Paulo Coelho

«The boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and saw that it was a part of the Soul of God. And he saw that Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles.» — Paulo Coelho

«I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living now.» — Paulo Coelho

«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.» — Paulo Coelho

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust

“Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.” -Ken Blanchard

Mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity -Paulo Coelho

«There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.» — Paulo Coelho

«You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?» — Paulo Coelho

«Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.» — Paulo Coelho

«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.» — Paulo Coelho

«It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.» — Paulo Coelho

“Perfection is not just about control. It is also about letting go.” –Black Swan

“Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.” –Paulo Coelho

You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” - Dr. Seuss

“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”  -William Gibson

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” –Jimi Hendrix

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.”  -William Shakespeare

 “Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”  -Henry Van Dyke

 “Having someone help you doesn’t mean you’re a failure, it just means you’re not in it alone.” –Life as we know it

 “Why are you sad?”

“Because you speak to me in words, and I look at you with feelings.” - Anna Karina, Pierrot Le Fou

 “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson