Zahir Quotes - Page 2

• A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.

  Paulo Coelho

  Helping, Brushes, Our Lives

  "The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2005.

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• Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs.

  Paulo Coelho

  Cheer, True Friend, Supportive

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

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• 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

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• The world only gets better because people risk something to make it better. Thanks Egyptians

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, People, Risk

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Feb 11, 2011

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• We don't always choose the best solution but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and decent in order to do honor not to the walls or the doors or the windows but to the empty space inside, the space where we worship and venerate what is dearest and most important to us.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wall, Doors, Order

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• No one is alone during tribulations - there's always someone else thinking, rejoicing or suffering in the same way. This thought gives us strength to face the challenge that lies in front of us.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Lying, Inspiration

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• The wise are wise only because they love.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Wise, Foolish Man

  "Elders on Love: Dialogues on the Consciousness, Cultivation, and Expression of Love". Book by Kenneth R. Lakritz and Thomas M. Knoblauch, 1999.

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• We can let the energy of love flow instead of placing it in a jar and leaving it aside.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Leaving

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• The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism.

  Zuheir Mohsen

  Struggle, Islamic, Mean

  "Wij zijn alleen Palestijn om politieke reden". "Trouw", March 31, 1977.

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• The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.

  Dante Alighieri

  Believe, Fall, Men

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• We must play music quietly, talk quietly, weep in private, because I am the all-powerful Zahir, who lays down the rules and determines the distance between railway tracks, the meaning of success, the best way to love, the importance of rewards.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Powerful, Distance

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• Pakistan's ruler Pervez Musharraf predicted the Taliban will fall for hiding Osama bin Laden. Ex-king Zahir Shah is standing by to replace Mullah Mohammed Omar. And the most ominous sign of all, President Bush has learned all their names.

  Argus Hamilton

  Kings, Fall, Names

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