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Quotes About Perspective

Don't explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you
~ Paulo Coelho
Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.
~ Paulo Coelho
You say they create their own reality, said Veronika, but what is reality?
~ Paulo Coelho
No one owns anything. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine.
~ Paulo Coelho
Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near
~ Paulo Coelho
The happier people can be, the unhappier they are.
~ Paulo Coelho
A Warrior of Light values a child's eyes because they are able to look at the world without bitterness. When he wants to find out if the person beside him is worthy of his trust, he tries to see him as a child would
~ Paulo Coelho
You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.
~ Paulo Coelho
And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us.
~ Paulo Coelho
It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think yours is the only path.
~ Paulo Coelho
Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to you will feed that dark side of your soul, where you consider yourself wronged, suffering, guilty and deserving punishment. If you choose to be an adventurer, the changes - even the inevitable losses, since everything in this world changes - can cause some pain, but will soon thrust you forward, forcing you to react.
~ Paulo Coelho
What we see is not always what exists.
~ Paulo Coelho
None of us can know what tomorrow will hold, because each day has its good and its bad moments.
~ Paulo Coelho
A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.
~ Paulo Coelho
When each day is the same as the nest it's because people fail to reconize the good things that happen in thier lives everyday the sunrises
~ Paulo Coelho
Everyone has his or her own way of learning things. His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.
~ Paulo Coelho
People only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they'll get it.
~ Paulo Coelho
In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die? No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.
~ Paulo Coelho
But 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
From the moment we are born, people tell us that the world is like this and like that, this way, that way. It is natural that - for a certain period of time - we end up believing what we are told. But we must soon push these ideas aside and discover our own way of living reality.
~ Paulo Coelho
You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. " Chantal
~ Paulo Coelho
Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.
~ Paulo Coelho
What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.
~ Paulo Coelho
As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.
~ Paulo Coelho