Paulo Coelho Quotes

No man can lose what he never had.

So how can you lose what you've never owned?

No one owns anything. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

If you acquire things, you have to let them go.

So we're in this process of letting go of our own attachments to our physical forms and to the people we love, and... basically everything. Life is like this one big process of letting go.

Everything you gather is just one that you can lose.

Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.

We only keep what we lose.

People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.

The more you own, the more you know you don't own.

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with.

Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.

As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again.

I am aware of the depths of heartache I'm experiencing but also how foolish it is to think that the things we have are permanent. They're not.

If I change car, I change car. I don't get very fond of things.

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

This is going to be a hard task for you, first to attain and then to lose - because you can lose only something which you possess. If you don't possess it, how can you lose it?

Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?

It was becoming clear to me that I shouldn't bother to get too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it. Just like that.

If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.

That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.