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25 Times Paulo Coelho Poetically Understood Our Pain And Healed Our Hurt

My heart might be bruised but it will recover. 
Kirsten Corley
September 20, 2016
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
— Paulo Coelho, By The River Pedra I Sat Down And Wept
Tagged: Waiting, Forgetting, Moving On, Limbo, Suffering, Pain
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Giving Love, Opening Up, Self-improvement, Self-Help, Self-Love
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Life, Challenge, Overcoming Adversity, Change, Failure, Bouncing Back, Resilience, strength
“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. ”
— Paulo Coelho, By The River Pedra I Sat Down And Wept
Tagged: Pain, Loss, Longing, Love, Grief, Grieving, Death, Breakups, Moving On
“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Fate, Destiny, History, Individuality, Importance
“Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Fear, Love, Destiny, Listening To Your Heart, Life, Challenge, Change, Authenticity, Staying True To Yourself, Inspirational
“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Tagged: Perspective, Adventure, Life, Choices, Optimism
“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Tagged: Life, Hope, Crisis, Crises, Change, Overcoming Challenges, Pain
“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, Eleven Minutes
Tagged: Loneliness, Love, Belonging, Being Alone, Pain, Grief, Loss
“Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to you will feed that dark side of your soul, where you consider yourself wronged, suffering, guilty and deserving punishment. If you choose to be an adventurer, the changes – even the inevitable losses, since everything in this world changes – can cause some pain, but will soon thrust you forward, forcing you to react.”
— Paulo Coelho, Warrior Of The Light
Tagged: Tragedy, Attitude, Perspective, Darkness, Pain, Suffering, Fear
“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.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
Tagged: Lessons, Learning, Life, Progression, Moving Forward, Uncertainty
“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.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
Tagged: Love, Pain, Loss, Grief, Breakups
“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.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Zahi
Tagged: Hatred, forgiveness, Love, Pain, Moving Forward
“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: heart, Identity, Listening To Your Heart, Trust Yourself
“At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Fate, Destiny, Empowering, Self-Direction
“Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain
Tagged: Sadness, Desire, Moving On, Moving Forward, Grief, Loss
“Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.”
— Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra
“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.”
— Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die: A Novel of Redemption
Tagged: Hardest Tests, Patience, Waiting, Disappointment
“And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Spy
Tagged: Braveness, Fear, Moving Forward
“and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes: A Novel (P.S.)
Tagged: Leaving, Heartbreak, Letting Go
“My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Heart and Love, Suffer, Heartbreak
“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph (Vintage International)
Tagged: Dating, Love, Relationships
“She wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage (Plus)
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Life
“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, The Delux Collection - Paulo Coelho: Box Set
Tagged: Love, Relationships, First Love