“Dont try to be useful. Try to be yourself; that is enough, and that makes all the difference.”
More from Paulo Coelho on Life
“I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.”
“She didn't struggle and so she didn't grow”
“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time”
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.”
“She was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on.”
“And to those who believe that adventures are i say try routine: it kills you far more quickly.”
“The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.”
“And when I think about it, I guess it is true that people always arrive at the right moment at the place where someone awaits them”
“Don’t close your eyes to the Universe and then complain: ‘It’s dark.”
“Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.”
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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Henry Miller
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Lord Byron
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Cormac McCarthy
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Virginia Woolf
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Joseph Campbell
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Viktor Frankl
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Margaret Atwood
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Sarah Dessen
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Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”