Zahir Quotes

• That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pride, Cutting, Winning

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• Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Confused, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 12, 2011

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• When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

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  Love, Life, Inspiration

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 09, 2014

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• Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

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  Inspirational, Freedom, Commitment

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession”, p.21, Harper Collins

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Long Distance Relationship

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

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• Ester asked why people are sad. "That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Memories

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• It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Sep 03, 2014

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• Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on.

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  True Love, Inspiration, People

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 15, 2014

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• Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.

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  Love Is, Suffering, Get Better

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 21, 2014

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• We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

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  Two, Knowing, Firsts

  "The Zahir". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2005.

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• When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

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  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 30, 2014

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• Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act

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  Effort, Needs, Genius

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 01, 2012

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• 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

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• The energy of hatred won't get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.

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  Hatred, Energy, Way

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• No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.

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  Moving Forward, Mean, People

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• Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I'm going to have a husband, a home, two children, a house in the country. As long as they're busy doing that, they're like bulls looking for the bullfighter: they react instinctively, they blunder on, with no idea where the target is. They get their car, sometimes they even get a Ferrari, and they think that's the meaning of life, and they never question it. Yet their eyes betray the sadness that even they don't know they carry in their soul. Are you happy?

  Paulo Coelho

  Country, Children, Husband

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• All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready.

  Paulo Coelho

  Attention, Lessons, Pay

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 26, 2016

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• Stop being who you were and become who you are.

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  Inspiring, Who You Are

  "The Zahir". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2005.

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• My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure. When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive--I'll find love again.

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  Heart, Finding Love, Might

  "The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession". Book by Paulo Coelho, October 13, 2009.

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• You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person? ... I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn't turn into ... a Zahir.

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  Heart, Men, Thinking

  "The Zahir". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2005.

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• We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are.

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  Life, Inspiration, Thinking

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• I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Pain, Regret

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• The taste of things recovered is the sweetest honey we will ever know.

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  Honey, Taste, Sweetest

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• All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step

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  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• As soon as people decide to confront a problem, they realize that they are far more capable than they thought they were.

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  People, Problem, Realizing

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