Paulo Coelho Quotes About Parents

• Does a soldier go to war in order to kill the enemy? no, he goes in order to die for his country. Does a wife want to show her husband how happy she is? no, she wants him to see how she suffers in order to make him happy Does the husband go to work thinking he will find personal fulfillment there? no, he is giving his sweat and tears for the good of the family And so it goes on: sons give up their dreams to please their parents, parents give up their lives in order to please their children; pain and suffering are used to justify the one thing that should bring only LOVE.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Country, Pain

• We must never make our parents sad, even if this means giving up everything that makes us happy.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Giving Up, Inspiration

• Believing that your parents are always right.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Believe, Parent

• Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people - preferably our parents, our spouses or our children - for our failure to realise our dreams.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Children, Frustration

• I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

  Paulo Coelho

  Careers, Parent, Brazil

• The parents always insisted on telling their child that their secret friends didn't exist - perhaps because they had forgotten that they too had spoken to their angel at one time. Or, who knows, perhaps they thought they lived in a world where there was no longer any place for angels.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Angel, Parent

  "The Valkyries". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1992.

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