Paulo Coelho Quotes

No one should let themselves get used to anything.

The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia. Luckily the inconsequent life is not the only alternative; for caprice is as ruinous as routine. Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

In every moment we make a decision -- whether conscious or unconscious. Will I choose to open my heart, send love, withhold judgment and thus free myself from fear? Or will I close my heart, project fear instead of extending love, judge others, and thus bind myself to fear? The choice is mine and mine alone.

I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.

Habit is a great deadener.

If you do the same thing too often, it gets to be the only thing you can do.

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

Freedom is the possibility of development, of enhancement of one's life - or the possibility of withdrawing, shutting oneself up, denying and stultifying one's growth.

Listening is huge. Learn to listen. And it's hard: relationships are not easy; most of them don't last. I mean, when you look at what's really going on. So every day is a choice, and sense of freedom is important.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

Psychoanalysis - and any good therapy - is a method of increasing one's awareness of destiny in order to increase one's experience of freedom.

The day you are content, you will stop growing.