Paulo Coelho Quotes About Challenges

• When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Change, Meaningful

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 27, 2017

• Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 12, 2014

• To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges.

  Paulo Coelho

  Challenges, Intuition, Environmental

  Female First Interview, www.femalefirst.co.uk. March 17, 2007.

• Fortunate are those who take the first steps.

  Paulo Coelho

  Challenges, Firsts, Steps

• A responsible warrior is not someone who takes the weight of the world on his shoulders, but someone who has learned to deal with the challenges of the moment.

  Paulo Coelho

  Warrior, Challenges, World

• When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “The Devil and Miss Prym”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

• She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Change, Dream

• After weeks on the road, listening to a language you don’t understand, using a currency whose value you don’t comprehend, walking down streets you’ve never walked down before, you discover that your old “I,” along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences.

  Paulo Coelho

  New Experiences, Interesting, Challenges

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

• Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.

  Paulo Coelho

  Long, Life And Death, Joy

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2010.

• We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that's of no use to the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It's always new.

  Paulo Coelho

  Grateful, Past, New Experiences

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

• Whenever we need to make a very important decision it is best to trust our instincts, because reason usually tries to remove us from our dream, saying that the time is not yet right. Reason is afraid of defeat, but intuition enjoys life and its challenges.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Enjoy Life, Decision

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 28, 2010

• No one is alone during tribulations - there's always someone else thinking, rejoicing or suffering in the same way. This thought gives us strength to face the challenge that lies in front of us.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Lying, Inspiration

• Know how to get close to it: mountains are often seen from far off - beautiful, interesting, full of challenges. But what happens when we try to draw closer? Roads run all around them, flowers grow between you and your objective, what seemed so clear on the map is tough in real life. So try all the paths and all the tracks until eventually one day you're standing in front of the top that you yearn to reach.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Beautiful, Running

• Body and soul need new challenges.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 28, 2014

• The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Courage, Inspiration

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation”, p.10, Harper Collins

• A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Knowledge

• The Virgin (and I'm not speaking here of a sexual virgin) is the one whose search springs from her complete independence, and everything she learns is the fruit of her ability to face challenges alone.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spring, Women, Challenges

• Treat every challenge as a lesson, every mistake you make as a blessing and move on.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Mistake

• What makes life interesting are the challenges we face.

  Paulo Coelho

  Interesting, Challenges, Faces

• At this moment, many people have stopped living. They do not become angry, nor cry out; they merely wait for time to pass. They did not accept the challenges of life, so life no longer challenges them

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Waiting, Challenges

• Love lasts because it changes and not because it stays the same and never faces any challenges.

  Paulo Coelho

  Challenges, Lasts, Faces

• Every new book is a challenge. I could, of course, have stopped many years ago if it was only for money. But no, it is about building bridges among cultures, different cultures... When you want someone to understand something that is not forcefully in your culture, you use stories.

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Years, Bridges

  "Interview with Paulo Coelho: best selling author of The Alchemist". Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. November 3, 2014.

• What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fighting, Victory And Defeat, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 26, 2014

• Reason is afraid of defeat, But intuition enjoys challenges

  Paulo Coelho

  Challenges, Intuition, Defeat

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