Paulo Coelho Quotes

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.

Waking up each morning to a hysterical alarm clock on the bedside table.

God has a plan for you, you are here in this world because God has a plan for you. And the problem is that people start listening to other people and they forget to listen to their heart and to see what is the plan that God has for you.

The world has never been as divided as it is now, what with religious wars, genocides, a lack of respect for the planet, economic crisis, depression, poverty, with everyone wanting instant solutions to at least some of the world's problems or their own. And things only look bleaker as we head into future.

People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them. We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren’t, or of treasures that might have been found but were forever hidden in the sands. Because, when these things happen, we suffer terribly.

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. I've fallen in love many times... always with you. What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

He is also a victim of some injustice; he usually tries to be alone, in order to show his pain to others.

We women, when we're searching for a meaning to our lives or for the path of knowledge, always identify with one of four classic archetypes.

Every Warrior of the Light has, at some time in the past, lied or betrayed someone.

With every farewell comes a hidden hope.

He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence.

Each human being was given two qualities: power and the gift. Power directs us towards our destiny; the gift obliges us to share with others what is best in us.

To say "no" is painful, but much better than a "yes" that brings regrets.

I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous.

A warrior cannot lower his head - otherwise he loses sight of the horizon of his dreams.

MySpace is an addiction.

He also chooses his enemies.

He too shares his world with the people he loves.

Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul. On the other hand, when the sun appeared, the children would come out to play in the streets, and everyone was happy that it was such a lovely day, and then I would feel terrible, as if that display of exuberance in which i could not participate was somehow unfair.

May my tears run just as far, that my love might never know that one day I cried for him.

That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why I will never lose you...." ......... "I will always remember you, and you will remember me, just as we will remember the evening, the rain on the window, and all the things we'll always have because we cannot possess them

Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.

the power of beauty:what must the world be like for ugly women?

The only reason I don't throw myself into your arms, kiss you and make love with you now is that I lack the courage and am afraid of loving you.

Sometimes, you get no second chance and that its best to accept the gifts the world offers you.

But how will I know who my Soulmate is? Brida felt that this was one of the most important questions she had ever asked in her life.

I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I am still crying. To believe even when I am discredited.

A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.

We all have an unknown ability, which will probably remain unknown forever. And yet that ability can become our ally. Since it’s impossible to measure that ability or give it an economic value, it’s never taken seriously.

In the northern hemisphere, always dressing according to the season: bare arms in spring (however cold it is) and woolen jacket in winter (however hot it is).

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.

We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us.

The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.

Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.

He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove.

A Warrior of the Light cannot always choose his battlefield.

Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back, complained about everything, insulted their wife or were insulted by her, felt wretched, but were, nonetheless, tightly bound to their own unhappiness, not realizing that all it would take was a single gesture, a final goodbye, to free them from that oppression.

Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their lives. They are afraid to step into the dark, afraid of the unknown, and their only way of conquering that fear is to ignore the fact that their days are numbered. They do not see that with an awareness of death, they would be able to be even more daring, to go much further in their daily conquests, because then they would have nothing to lose- for death itself is inevitable.

He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words.

Fear of failure leads to failure.

Join with those who sing, tell stories, talk pleasure in life, and have joy in their eyes, because joy is contagious, and can prevent others from becoming paralysed by depression, loneliness and difficulties.

Everyone contributes a word, a sentence, an image, but in the end it all makes sense: the happiness of one becomes the joy of all.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

We don't need to explain our love. We only need to show it.

Do not seek to be loved at any price, because Love has no price.