Paulo Coelho Quotes

He needs both patience and speed.

A warrior of the Light does not rely on strength alone; he makes use of his opponent's energy, too.

A great life is to be able to ebb and flow.

Of course I would love to battle for victories and be up the front but it's always about where can you be, what are your alternatives.

Balance takes work. Lots of it. There is no endpoint in balance, no goal, no finalization. Balance requires practice, patience, and - most importantly - movement. We often get stuck in our ways and form habits based on our fears and driven by our insecurities.

I just know I can't force things. I've just got to play the right way, make sure I'm making the right play at the right time.

A responsible Warrior is one who has proved able to observe and to learn.

A Warrior is never in a hurry.

Sometimes you need to ease off in order to go faster

The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.

To go faster you must slow down.

The warrior of Light perseveres in his desire, but knows he must wait for the best moment.

Great leaders must be able to realize when something isn’t working-no matter how hard they’ve worked to make it succeed.

There's times to be dainty and times to be a pig.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

If you are centered, you can move freely.

I've always believed in quickness over strength and size.

Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly.

He sometimes behaves like water, flowing around the obstacles he encounters.

I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.

If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand. If you want to get rid of something, you must first allow it to flourish. If you want to take something, you must first allow it to be given. This is called the subtler perception of the way things are. The soft overcomes the hard. The slow overcomes the fast. Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.

Life is already too short to waste on speed.

We explore within postures everything we deal with in life: the interplay between resistance and surrender; establishing stability and maintaining flexibility; learning to receive and release; being present to all the complexities of our lives, and returning to the fundamentals of our "beginner's mind" again and again.