The Zahir Quotes

“The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories.”
― Paulo Coelho

“When someone leaves, its because someone else is about to arrive- I'll find love again.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

“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, The Zahir

“absolute freedome doesn't exist, what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself that decision”
― Paolo Coelho the zahir

“fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

“We must at all costs avoid saying no because people prefer those who say yes, and this allows us to survive in hostile territory.”
― Paulo Coelho

“The acomodador or giving-up point: there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us failing to progress: a trauma, a particularly bitter defeat, a disappointment in love, even a victory that we did not quite understand, can make cowards of us and prevent us from moving on. As part of the process of increasing his hidden powers, the shaman must first free himself from that giving-up point and, to do so, he must review his while life and find out where it occured.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

“What we need to learn is always there before us, we just have to look around us with respect and attention in order to discover where God is leading us and which step we should take next.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

“critics are extremely insecure. they don't really know what's going on, they're democrats when it comes to politics but fascists when it comes to culture”
― Paolo Coelho

“you don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago,”
― Paulo Coelho

“Always keep Ithaca in your mind. To arrive there is your ultimate goal. But do not hurry the voyage at all. It is better to let it last for many years; and to anchor at the island when you are old, rich with all you have gained on the way, not expecting that Ithaca will offer you riches. Ithaca has given you the beautiful voyage. Without her you would never have set out on the road. She has nothing more to give you. And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what Ithacas mean.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

“they (rules) will always apply, even if you don't agree with them”
― Paolo Coelho

“reviewing History's great idea, the one way you can make things change”
― Paolo Coelho the zahir