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Quotes About Experience

Life is not a long vacation, but a constant learning process.
~ Paulo Coelho
Many parents make mistakes with their children, thinking they know what's best for them.
~ Paulo Coelho
The ship is safest when it's in port, but that's not what ships were built for.
~ Paulo Coelho
All love stories have much in common. I wen through the same thing at one point in my life. But that's not what I remember. What I remember is that love returned in the form of another man, new hopes, and new dreams.
~ Paulo Coelho
The boy told himself that, on the way toward realizing his own destiny, he had learned all he needed to know, and had experienced everything he might have dreamed of.
~ Paulo Coelho
Then the Warrior realizes that these repeated experiences have but one aim: to teach him what he does not want to learn.
~ Paulo Coelho
You don't have to climb a mountain to find out whether or not it's high.
~ Paulo Coelho
If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make. Each arrow leaves a memory in your heart, and it is the sum of those memories that will make you shoot better and better.
~ Paulo Coelho
I will always remember you, and you will remember me, just as we will remember the evening, the rain on the windows, and all the things we'll always have because we cannot possess them.
~ Paulo Coelho
People never learn anything by being told, they have to findout for themselves.
~ Paulo Coelho
Whether necessary or not, they occur. When he begins fighting for his dreams, man has no experience, and makes many mistakes. But the secret in life is to fall seven times, and rise up eight times.
~ Paulo Coelho
It is not life that matters, but the journey.
~ Paulo Coelho
Quiza el amor no envejece antes de tiempo, y nos vuelve jovenes cuando pasa la juventud.
~ Paulo Coelho
We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that's of no use in the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It's always new.
~ Paulo Coelho
If your rely only on experience, you'll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems. I know a lot of people who feel they have an identity only when they're talking about their problems. That way, they exist because their problems are linked to what they judge to be their history.
~ Paulo Coelho
Wait patiently for the right moment to act. Do not let the next opportunity slip. Take pride in your scars. Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle. Often this will lead them to seek dialogue and avoid conflict. Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.
~ Paulo Coelho
the music speaks for itself, there's no need to say anything
~ Paulo Coelho
Time heals almost everything. But when you are healed, you are too old to enjoy
~ Paulo Coelho
Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
~ Paulo Coelho
I ask myself: Are Defeats necessary ? Well,necessary or not, they happen. When we first begin fighting for our dream, we've no experience and make many mistakes. The Secret of life, though,is to fall seven times and to get up eight times !
~ Paulo Coelho
The Marquis De Sade said that the most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.
~ Paulo Coelho
It is imposible to understand sex as we see it nowadays - a mere response to a few physical stimuli. In reality, it is far more than that, and carries with it man's and humanity's entire cultural burden. Each time we face a new experience, we bring with us all past experiences - both good and bad - as well as those concepts which civilization has made into rules.
~ Paulo Coelho
Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation.
~ Paulo Coelho
We are all souls wandering the cosmos and, at the same time, living our lives, but with a sense that we are passing from one incarnation to another. If something touches to the code of our soul, it is remembered for ever and affects whatever comes afterwards.
~ Paulo Coelho