Paulo Coelho: What i've learned in life
*What I have learned in life is…
"That no matter how good a person is, sometimes
they can hurt you and because of this we must forgive.
It takes years to build trust and only seconds
to destroy it.
We don’t have to change friends if we understand
that friends change.
Our circumstances and the environment influence
our lives, but we must be responsible for ourselves.
You have to control your acts or they will
control you.
Patience requires much practice.
There are people who love us, but simply don’t
know how to show it.
That sometimes the person you think will hurt
you and make you fall is, instead, one of the few who will help you get up.
You should never tell a child that dreams are
fake; it would be a tragedy if they knew.
It’s not always enough to be forgiven by
someone, as in most cases you have to forgive yourself first.
That no matter how many pieces your heart is
broken into, the world doesn’t stop to fix it.
Maybe God wants us to meet all the wrong people
first before meeting the right one, so when we finally meet the right one, we
are grateful for that gift.
When the door of happiness closes, another door
opens, but often we look so long at the closed one we don’t see what is open
for us.
The best kind of a friend is the kind in which
you can sit on a porch or go for a walk without saying a word, and when you
leave, it feels like it was the best conversation you’ve ever had.
It’s true we don’t know what we have until we
find it, but it’s also true that we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it
arrives.
It only takes a minute to offend someone, an
hour to like someone, a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget
someone.
Don’t look for appearances, they can be
deceiving; don’t go for wealth, as this can fade too.
Find someone who makes you smile, because it
only takes a smile to make a day better.
Find what makes your heart smile.
There are moments in life when you miss someone
so much that you wish you can take them out of your dream and hug them for
real.
Dream what you want, go wherever you want to go,
because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to
do.
The happiest people don’t necessarily have the
best of everything; they just make the best out of everything that comes their
way.
The best future is based on the forgotten past.
You can’t prevail in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.”
*By Paulo Coelho
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