Paulo Coelho Quotes

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

In everybody's life, there is love, there is sorrow, there is melancholy. And there might be danger as well.

Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

It takes a little blood to let the learning in.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Of course fear does not automatically lead to courage. Injury does not necessarily lead to insight. Hardship will not automatically make us better. Pain can break us or make us wiser. Suffering can destroy us or make us stronger. Fear can cripple us, or it can make us more courageous. It is resilience that makes the difference.

I have the experience of age and suffering.

Love is the garment of knowledge.

If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.

Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn't heartless. She was only aware of things which I didn't learn till so many decades had passed. She knew secrets that only suffering can teach.