Paulo Coelho Quotes About Suffering

• Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Long Distance Relationship

  "By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept". Book by aulo Coelho, 1994.

• Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Change, Encouraging

• He seemed to be talking about my fears, my insecurity, and my unwillingness to see what was wonderful because tomorrow it might disappear and I might suffer. The gods throw the dice, and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, God, Talking

• Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Fear, Heart

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 31, 2014

• Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when that person looks back – and at some point everyone looks back – she will hear her heart saying, “What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of losing those talents. So this is your heritage; the certainty that you wasted your life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Heart, People

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness”, p.7, Harper Collins

• But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 16, 2010

• Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

  Paulo Coelho

  Loneliness, Years, Two

• I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Suffering, Way

• Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 08, 2012

• People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them. We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren’t, or of treasures that might have been found but were forever hidden in the sands. Because, when these things happen, we suffer terribly.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Heart, Thinking

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

• My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer, the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering s worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with Eternity.

  Paulo Coelho

  God, Dream, Heart

  "The Alchemist". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1988.

• Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Cheer, True Friend

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 23, 2011

• Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.

  Paulo Coelho

  Years, Soul, Suffering

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

• All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning

  Paulo Coelho

  Laughing, Suffering, Steps

• A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The pain of defeat is bitter to him; he suffers at indifference and becomes desperate with loneliness. After all this has passed, he licks his wounds and begins everything anew. A warrior knows that war is made of many battles: he goes on

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Pain, Loneliness

• Love is joy. Don't convince yourself that suffering is a part of it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love Is, Joy, Suffering

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 27, 2014

• Of all the ways we have found to hurt ourselves, the worse has been through love. We are always suffering because of someone who doesn't love us, or someone who has left us, or someone who won't leave us. If we are alone, it is because no one wants us.

  Paulo Coelho

  Hurt, Suffering, Want

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 05, 2017

• Look around. And don't get close to people who make you suffer.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, People, Suffering

• Long distance relationships are living proof that love is not just physical. I can feel you next to me even when you're thousands of miles away.
  Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

  Paulo Coelho

  Relationship, Distance, Love Is

• Love is, after all, a curse of suffering.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love Is, Suffering, Curse

• Only three things can change our lives dreams, suffering and love

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Suffering, And Love

• 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

• but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person with whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life. After a long time, she came to the conclusion that men brought only pain, frustration, suffering and a sense of time dragging.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Pain, Frustration

• Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments — but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Disappointment, Taken

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 22, 2016

• Pain, loss and separation are inevitable on the path of love, and the only way of avoiding them is by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you have to renounce love.It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pain, Eye, Loss

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