<h1> By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept quotes</h1>

Paulo Coelho is one of my most favorite authors and the book "By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept" is my favorite among his works. So here are my favorites lines from this book:

• You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
• Every person on earth has a gift. In some, the gift manifests itself spontaneously; others have to work to discover what it is.
• We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
• It's not necessary to move mountains in order to prove one's faith.
• Love perseveres. It's men who change.
• Truth resides where there is faith.
• Dreams mean work.
• We are our own greatest surprise.
• Sometimes if you think you know something, you do wind up understanding it.
• I will not talk to my own darkness anymore. A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.
• When we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we are alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.
• Only a man who is happy can create happiness in others.
• A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way.
• Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
• All wisdom was the result of listening to one's own soul.
• For years, I had fought against my heart, because I was afraid of sadness, suffering, and abandonment. But now I knew that it would be better to die than to fail to love.
• Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
• Life takes us by surprise and order us to move toward the unknown - even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.
• Love always causes stupidity.
• If one can dominate the body, one can dominate the spirit.
• The closer we get to God through our faith, the simpler He becomes. And the simpler He becomes, the greater is His presence.