Zahir Quotes:

That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Pride, Cutting, Winning, Zahir

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Love, Confused, Feelings, Lost And Confused, Zahir

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Love, Life, Inspiration, Stopped Clock, Zahir

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Inspirational, Freedom, Commitment, Freedom To Choose, Zahir

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Inspirational, Life, Pain, Love Pain, Knowing A Person

Ester asked why people are sad. "That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Life, Dream, Memories, Personal History, Zahir

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Dreams Can Come True, Hopes And Dreams

Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on.

- Paulo Coelho

source: FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 15, 2014

topic: True Love, Inspiration, People, Zahir

Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.

- Paulo Coelho

source: FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 21, 2014

topic: Love Is, Suffering, Get Better, Zahir

We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Knowing, Two, Firsts, Zahir

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Stopped Clock, Life Destiny

Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act

- Paulo Coelho

source: FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 01, 2012

topic: Effort, Needs, Genius, Zahir

It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Life, Inspiration, Past, Zahir, Closing Doors

The energy of hatred won't get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Hatred, Way, Energy, Zahir

No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Moving Forward, Mean, People, Zahir

Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I'm going to have a husband, a home, two children, a house in the country. As long as they're busy doing that, they're like bulls looking for the bullfighter: they react instinctively, they blunder on, with no idea where the target is. They get their car, sometimes they even get a Ferrari, and they think that's the meaning of life, and they never question it. Yet their eyes betray the sadness that even they don't know they carry in their soul. Are you happy?

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Country, Children, Husband, Zahir

All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Zahir

My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure. When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive--I'll find love again.

- Paulo Coelho

source: "The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession". Book by Paulo Coelho, October 13, 2009.

topic: Heart, Finding Love, Might, Love Again, Zahir

You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person? ... I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn't turn into ... a Zahir.

- Paulo Coelho

source: "The Zahir". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2005.

topic: Heart, Men, Thinking, Zahir, Enough Love

We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Life, Thinking, Needs, Zahir

I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Inspirational, Pain, Regret, Zahir, Painful Times

The taste of things recovered is the sweetest honey we will ever know.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Honey, Taste, Sweetest, Zahir

As soon as people decide to confront a problem, they realize that they are far more capable than they thought they were.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: People, Problem, Realizing, Makes You Stronger, Zahir

A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.

- Paulo Coelho

source: "The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2005.

topic: Helping, Brushes, Our Lives, Zahir

Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Life, True Friend, Cheer, Zahir, Miserable Life

The world only gets better because people risk something to make it better. Thanks Egyptians

- Paulo Coelho

topic: People, Risk, Get Better, Warrior Of The Light, Zahir

We don't always choose the best solution but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and decent in order to do honor not to the walls or the doors or the windows but to the empty space inside, the space where we worship and venerate what is dearest and most important to us.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Wall, Doors, Order, Zahir

No one is alone during tribulations - there's always someone else thinking, rejoicing or suffering in the same way. This thought gives us strength to face the challenge that lies in front of us.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Life, Lying, Inspiration, Zahir

The wise are wise only because they love.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Life, Wise, Love Life, Foolish Man, Zahir

We can let the energy of love flow instead of placing it in a jar and leaving it aside.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Life, Leaving, Jars, Zahir

The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism.

- Zuheir Mohsen

source: "Wij zijn alleen Palestijn om politieke reden". "Trouw", March 31, 1977.

topic: Struggle, Islamic, Mean, Arab Israeli Conflict, Zahir

The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.

- Dante Alighieri

topic: Believe, Fall, Men, Zahir

We must play music quietly, talk quietly, weep in private, because I am the all-powerful Zahir, who lays down the rules and determines the distance between railway tracks, the meaning of success, the best way to love, the importance of rewards.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Life, Powerful, Distance, Zahir

Pakistan's ruler Pervez Musharraf predicted the Taliban will fall for hiding Osama bin Laden. Ex-king Zahir Shah is standing by to replace Mullah Mohammed Omar. And the most ominous sign of all, President Bush has learned all their names.

- Argus Hamilton

topic: Kings, Fall, Names, Musharraf, Zahir