Paulo Coelho Quotes

#1 Never Get Used to Anything.

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

One thing that has helped me personally in the past was to stop interfering with the people around me and getting frustrated when I couldn’t change them. Instead of intrusion and passivity, may I suggest submission? Some people make the mistake of confusing “submission” with “weakness”, whereas it is anything but. Submission is a form of peaceful acceptance of the terms of the universe, including the things we are currently unable to change or comprehend.

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

After awhile you could get used to anything.

Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn.

When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.

It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.

One of the hard lessons to learn in life is that there are some things you can control and some things you can't. If you want a short recipe for being frustrated and miserable, this is it: focus on things you can't control.

The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

We have to learn to adapt to people and changes. Change is good.

What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us?

Some people can accept the changes in life in a mature way but for most others, it is never easy.

You cannot control everything - you try to control what you can control.

Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way.

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps.

People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.

a person can get used to anything if given enough time

Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness.