Paulo Coelho Quotes

A warrior of light needs both patience and speed. He treats each situation as if it were unique.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent.

The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.

Then the Warrior of the Light thanks his traveling companions, takes a deep breath and continues on, laden with memories of an unforgettable journey.

Good technique includes quick changes, great variety and speed. It may be a system of reversals much like a concept of God and the Devil. In the speed of events, which one is really in charge? Do they change places with lightning speed? The Chinese believe so. To put the heart of the martial arts in your own heart and have it be a part of you means total comprehension.

The Warrior of the Light knows that everyone is afraid of everyone else.

A Warrior often loses heart.

The warrior of light plunges unhesitatingly into the river of passions always flowing through his life.

Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties.

A Warrior of the Light cannot always choose his battlefield.

Sometimes Evil pursues the Warrior of the Light, and when it does, he calmly invites it into his tent.

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

Often, during combat, the warrior of light receives blows that he was not expecting. And he realizes that, during a war, his enemy is bound to win some of the battles. When this happens, the warrior of light weeps bitter tears and rests in order to recover his energies a little. But he immediately resumes the battle for his dreams.

Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.

I love meeting life halfway.

A Warrior is never in a hurry.

Whatever life may send your way - make the best of it. Don't waste your time and energy worrying about it. Instead, find a way to do something about it. Learn from it, adjust to it, be strong, be flexible and be your best in every situation.

The warrior is always trying to improve.

Hope is the sun. It is light. It is passion. It is the fundamental force for life's blossoming.

So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.

Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.