Paulo Coelho Quotes About Past

• 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

  Life And Love, Party, Future

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

• It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

  Paulo Coelho

  Past

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

• It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Moving Forward, Inspiration

• If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Past, Focus

• It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right.

  Paulo Coelho

  Regret, Warrior, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 16, 2016

• The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one’s dreams would have no meaning.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Past, Hands

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

• Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.

  Paulo Coelho

  Memories, Past, Moments

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2010.

• It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you’re capable of far more than you imagined. You live in this vast body called the Universe, which contains all the solutions and all the problems. Visit your soul; don’t visit your past. The Universe goes through many mutations and carries the past with it. We call each of those mutations a ‘life,’ but just as the cells in your body change and yet you remain the same, so time does not pass, it merely changes.

  Paulo Coelho

  Memories, Past, Cells

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

• One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters – whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished.

  Paulo Coelho

  Past, What Matters, Doors

• But don’t forget that memory is like salt: the right amount brings out
  the flavour in food, too much ruins it. If you live in the past all the
  time, you’ll find yourself with no present to remember.

  Paulo Coelho

  Memories, Past, Finding Yourself

• When two people fall in love, past and future disappear.

  Paulo Coelho

  Falling In Love, Positive Thinking, Past

• 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.

• Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Past

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

• The Warrior remembers the past.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

• Feelings should always be allowed to be free. You should not judge a future love by past suffering.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Past

• Every Warrior of the Light has, at some time in the past, lied or betrayed someone.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

• Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present".

  Paulo Coelho

  Powerful, Past, Alchemist

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

• Many people don't allow themselves to love...because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past.

  Paulo Coelho

  Past, People, Risk

• But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person in a lifetime. I remarried. I'm very happy with my new wife, and I can't imagine living without her. This, however, doesn't mean that I have to renounce all my past experiences, as long as I'm careful not to compare my two lives. You can't measure love the way you can the length of a road or the height of a building.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mean, Healing, Past

• People never leave, we are always here in our past and future lives.

  Paulo Coelho

  Past, People, Our Past

• The future would end up finding out the truth about the past.

  Paulo Coelho

  Past, Ends, Finding Out The Truth

• Visit your soul; don't visit your past.

  Paulo Coelho

  Past, Soul, Your Past

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

• Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present

  Paulo Coelho

  Past, Flames, Fire

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

• The present moment, though, is outside of time, it’s Eternity. In India they use the word “karma” for lack of any better term. But it’s a concept that’s rarely given a proper explanation. It isn’t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

  Paulo Coelho

  Karma, Past, India

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

• She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault of that insecure little boy, who had given up after the first attempt.

  Paulo Coelho

  Insecure, Boys, Past

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