I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.
Paulo CoelhoRead
I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Emotions can be deeply expressed through various experiences and moments in life.
This quote by Paulo Coelho reflects the fragility and depth of human emotions. It suggests that crying is a natural response to beauty, love, and sorrow in life, and that these tears signify emotions that yearn for expression, much like words waiting to be penned down. Coelho emphasizes the significance of recognizing and honoring our feelings as part of the human experience.
Themes
EmotionsTearsExpressionBeautyHuman Experience
In practice
Example use cases
During a speech about emotional healing, this quote can remind the audience about the importance of expressing their feelings.
More from Paulo Coelho
All quotes βEach stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field.
Paulo CoelhoRead
We need to clear our minds of bad thoughts.
Paulo CoelhoRead
Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God.
Paulo CoelhoRead
The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants
Paulo CoelhoRead
Sometimes the Warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once.
Paulo CoelhoRead
Similar quotes
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
Lord ByronRead
The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.
AristotleRead
One must be able to let things happen.
Carl JungRead
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in a many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
Cormac MccarthyRead
The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.
Joss WhedonRead
I don't think it's fair to 12-, 13- and 14-year-olds to say 'Show us you're a winner right now!' Winning isn't everything. I'll never buy that thing that if a boy loses a football game, he's a loser in life.
Joe PaternoRead