Paulo Coelho Quotes

By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

You don't have the same mentality as you did five years ago - even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

I've changed a lot, too! I'm different, too. I have far more in some ways to offer and far less in other ways to offer. That's life. And, you know, life goes on!

We're all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible.

Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.

When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

Our molting season, like that of the fouls, must be a crisis in our lives.

Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.

When you #‎ travel , you experience, in a very practical way, the act of #‎ rebirth .

Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world.

Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

When you stop growing you start dying.

That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new. You can't be the child and the mom at the same time. You can't be your young self and your old self at the same time. You can't know what you know now and feel the way you did then. You can't, you can't, you can't.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

Falling is scary but good practice for life. We must fall. In love. Out of love. Into new experiences. Out of old habits. Deeper and further into ourselves. We must fall, life is falling over forward. The only choice we have is how we let go.

They say learning to love yourself, Is the first step, That you take when you want to be real...

If you don't try things and take risks, you don't really grow and figure out what you want.