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Quotes from Aleph — Paulo Coelho

born 1947 Brazil

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Lord, preserve me from tragedy and I will follow your desires.

Aleph (2011)

Here I am, trying to persuade myself that I always give the best of myself, and nature is telling me exactly the opposite: anyone truly committed to life never stops walking.

Aleph (2011)

The light of love flows out of my soul, but it can go nowhere because it’s blocked by pain. I could inhale and exhale every morning for the rest of my life, but that wouldn’t solve anything.

Aleph (2011)

We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.

Aleph (2011)

The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.

Aleph (2011)

So, in my relationships with men, I’ve always sought suffering, conflict, and despair.

Aleph (2011)

I forgive the injustice carried out in the name of justice

Aleph (2011)

That’s because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesn’t teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.

Aleph (2011)

Of holding out my hand, even when utterly alone and abandoned

Aleph (2011)

Of working happily, even in the midst of difficulties

Aleph (2011)

I forgive the pain and the disappointments

Aleph (2011)

I forgive the hatred and the persecution

Aleph (2011)

I forgive the world and all its evils.”

Aleph (2011)

If I were to persuade just one person to stop fighting for something they were convinced was worthwhile, I would end up persuading myself, and my whole life would be diminished.

Aleph (2011)

I love you like a river that begins as a solitary trickle in the mountains and gradually grows and joins other rivers until, after a certain point, it can flow around any obstacle in order to get where it wants.

Aleph (2011)

I will be capable of loving, regardless of whether I am loved in return

Aleph (2011)

When I knocked, the door opened. When I looked, I found.

Aleph (2011)

It’s always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility. You can try to stop time, but it’s a complete waste of energy.

Aleph (2011)

I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks. I love you like a river that gives water to the thirsty and takes people where they want to go.

Aleph (2011)

You feel that nothing you have learned has put down roots, that while you’re capable of entering the magical universe, you cannot remain submerged in it. You feel that all of this may be nothing but a fantasy dreamed up by people to fend off their fear of death.

Aleph (2011)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Paulo Coelho (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.