Paulo Coelho Quotes

Love is always changing and unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.

Relationships do change throughout the course of your life, and I always think in terms of relationships changing and evolving rather than starting and stopping.

A love grown old is not the love once new.

You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.

Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.

Every challenge takes you a little deeper and awakens you again and again. Without the challenges, you probably would go to back to sleep. The challenges keep you awake.

If you love someone when you're 20 and you carry that love with you until you're 90, it's not going to be the same dynamic.

Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.

In breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you'll be forced and privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and really get to know yourself.

I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.

I want us to have it all, love and career. It's a struggle sometime to achieve that, but I love the struggle.

To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.

While each of us faces enormous challenges every day, it's not the sins we commit that will define us, its how we respond to them.

It is a way to avoid difficulties, but whenever you avoid difficulties and challenges you have avoided growth also. Married people never grow. Lovers grow, because they have to meet the challenge every moment - and with no security. They have to create an inner phenomenon. With security you need not bother to create anything; the society helps.

Everyone is going to face challenges. What defines you is how you overcome those.

We learn and grow and become stronger as we face and survive the trials through which we must pass.

People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.

In the prosperous times, you put it in your pocket; in the lean times, you put it in your heart and that's when you discover who you are.

He's a very nice man and all that, easy to get along with, fun, he never makes me cry. But is that love? I mean, is that all there is to it? Even when you learned to ride your two-wheeler, you had to fall off a few times and scrape both knees. Call it a rite of passage. And that was just a little thing.

You have to continue to believe in yourself, know your value and continue to work on honing your skills. I was rejected by everyone but here I sit. So you have to stay in the game, you can't just fall apart. Hopefully those challenges will make you stronger, it did for me.

Every day has its own challenges, and every day those challenges make us stronger.

If you don't EVOLVE, you dissolve. You evolve or you evaporate.

The only people without problems are those in cemeteries. It is not what happens to us that separates failures from successes. It is how we perceive and what we do about what happens that makes the difference.

No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.