Paulo Coelho Quotes

To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important.

If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

If you hold onto stuff, it holds on to you. It just weighs you down, and it's a waste of energy. Why would I waste my energy on being bitter and hating when I could be using it to go out and do some really good stuff, you know?

I live with no regrets.

When I fell in love, all the shame and guilt I carried with me for years suddenly vanished.

Life without forgiveness is unbearable.

Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.

Releasing guilt is like removing a huge weight from your shoulders. Guilt is released through the empowering thought of love and respect for yourself. Let go of standards of perfection and refuse to use up the precious currency of your life, the now, with thoughts that continue to frustrate and weaken you. Instead, vow to be better than you used to be, which is the true test of nobility.

It is impossible to go as high as you are capable of going, if you are carrying the burden of hate, revenge and bitterness.

Part of forgiving people is releasing them from our own agendas.

You must forgive the people who hurt you so you can get out of prison. You'll never be free until you do. Let go of hose wrongs they've done to you. Get that bitterness out of your life. That's the only way you're going to truly be free. You will be amazed at what can happen in your life when you release all that poison.

Stop waiting. Feel everything. Love achingly. Give impeccably. Let go.

If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

Enlightenment is the mind that is open to anything, but attached to nothing. That is freedom. No values, no resentment, no grudges. Not carrying the past along with you. Not carrying memories from the past that are hurtful and shameful and embarrassing. Just let all that go and you are living in enlightenment, and you are free for everything.

Life is too short for any man to hold bitterness in his heart.

Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process.

I live in the present moment and easily release all past pain.