Paulo Coelho Quotes About Opportunity

• Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because don't know what to do with it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 08, 2016

• The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Mistake, Warrior

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 14, 2010

• Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment.
  The importance of this has been completely forgotten: even religious holidays have been transformed into opportunities to go to the beach or the park or skiing. There are no more rituals. Ordinary actions can no longer be transformed into manifestations of the sacred. We cook and complain that it's a waste of time, when we should be pouring our love into making that food. We work and believe it's a divine curse, when we should be using our skills to bring pleasure and to spread the energy of the Mother.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mother, Beach, Religious

• How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Regret, Mistake

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 04, 2014

• Certainly. But take this into consideration: of every ten problems we have, nine are created by our own selves - through guilt, self-punishment, self-pity. However, from time to time a great obstacle appears in our path, which was put there by God, and which is there for a reason. The reason is: to give us the opportunity to change everything, to move forwards.

  Paulo Coelho

  Moving, Opportunity, Self

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.22, Booklassic

• An enthusiastic heart finds opportunities everywhere.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Heart, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 28, 2010

• Seize every opportunity that life offers you because, when opportunities go, they take a long time to come back.

  Paulo Coelho

  Opportunity, Long, Offers

• The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mistake, Warrior, Opportunity

  "Quotes That Help You Survive". Book by Harpreet Kaur Kapoor, 2006.

• The only thing tragedy gives us is the opportunity to rebuild our life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Opportunity

• A warrior takes every opportunity to teach himself.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

• I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Mean, Fate

  "Paulo Coelho: 'I had an enormous amount of fun being a hippy" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2014.

• Tea ceremony is a way of worshipping the beautiful and the simple. All one's efforts are concentrated on trying to achieve perfection through the imperfect gestures of daily life. Its beauty consists in the respect with which it is performed. If a mere cup of tea can bring us closer to God, we should watch out for all the other dozens of opportunities that each ordinary day offers us.

  Paulo Coelho

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Simple

• Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt.

  Paulo Coelho

  Hurt, Opportunity, Missing

• We must love because we are loved by God. We must be conscious of death if we are to have a proper understanding of life. We must struggle in order to grow, but without falling into the trap of the power we gain through that struggle, because we know that power is worthless. Finally, we must accept that our eternal soul is, at this moment, caught in the web of time with all its opportunities and its limitations.

  Paulo Coelho

  Struggle, Fall, Opportunity

• When desire is still in this pure state, the man and the woman fall in love with life, they live each moment reverently, consciously, always ready to celebrate the next blessing. When people feel like this, they are not in a hurry, they do not precipitate events with unthinking actions. They know that the inevitable will happen, that what is real always finds a way of revealing itself. When the moment comes, they do not hesitate, they do not miss an opportunity, they do not let slip a single magic moment, because they respect the importance of each second.

  Paulo Coelho

  Falling In Love, Real, Love Life

• Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: “I made some mistakes, but I wasn’t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mistake, Opportunity, Miracle

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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