Quotes from The Winner Stands Alone

“If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“Whenever someone dies, a part of the universe dies too. Everything a person felt, experience and saw dies with them, like tears in the rain.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“If you believe in victory, then victory will believe in you.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us?”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“We are all a part of the divine spark. All have a purpose in creation and that purpose is called Love. That love, however, shouldn't be concentrated in just one person, it should be scattered throughout the world, waiting to be discovered. Wake up that love. What is gone cannot return. What is about to arrive needs to be recognized.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“Fashion is merely a saying: I belong to your world. I'm wearing the same uniform as your army, so don't shoot.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“Success is both an addiction and an enslavement...”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“Even if you slept with every man on Earth, my love will still survive.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“ان الروح تتعذب , وتتعذب كثيرا , عندما نجبرها على العيش على نحو سطحي . الروح تحب كل ما هو جميل وعميق.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“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, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy. Before coming here, I was thinking I don't deserve it, that i wouldn't be able to meet your expectations, and that you had probably chosen the wrong candidate. At the same time, my heart was telling me that i was being rewarded because i hadn't given up and had fought to the end”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“Fashion may renew itself every six months but one thing remains the same: bouncers always wear black.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“She Knows three things:
(a) that men are less treacherous than women;
(b) that they never notice what a woman is wearing because
they're always mentally undressing her,
(c) that as long as you've got breasts,thighs,buttocks and belly in
good trim, you can conquer the world.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“Whenever he reads articles in newspapers or magazines written by politicians using global warming or the destruction of the environment for their electoral campaigns, he thinks:
How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was and always will be stronger than us. We can’t destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing.
Why don’t they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us? Because “Saving the planet” gives a sense of power, action and nobility. Whereas “not letting the planet destroy us” might lead us to feelings of despair and impotence, and to a realisation of just how very limited our capabilities are.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“The Superclass tries to promote its values. Ordinary people complain
of divine injustice, they envy power, and it pains them to see
others having fun. They don’t understand that no one is having fun,
that everyone is worried and insecure, and that what the jewels, cars,
and fat wallets conceal is a huge inferiority complex.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“Even If you're doing the same thing over & over, U need to discover something new, fantastic & unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“The young all have the same dream: to save the world. Some quickly forget this dream, convinced that there are more important things to do, like having a family, earning money, traveling, and learning a foreign language. Others, though, decide that it really is possible to make a difference in society and to shape the world we will hand on to future generations.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“We must love because we are loved by God. We must be conscious of death if we are to have a proper understanding of life. We must struggle in order to grow, but without falling into the trap of the power we gain through that struggle, because we know that power is worthless. Finally, we must accept that our eternal soul is, at this moment, caught in the web of time with all its opportunities and its limitations.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“Transformations always occur during moments of crisis.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“Love your enemy. But don't forget he is not your friend.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

“الحياة تفرق أحيانا بين الناس ليدركوا كم يعني بعضهم لبعض”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Winner Stands Alone

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