Paulo Coelho Quotes

I feel it's my duty as a human being, as a person who is trying - like everybody else who thinks about the state of the world - to enhance the importance of multicultural connection.

But if you've ever felt love, you'll know how painful it is to suffer for love.

Stay close to those who sing, tell stories, and enjoy life, and whose eyes sparkle with happiness. Because happiness is contagious and will always manage to find a solution, whereas logic can find only an explanation for the mistake made.

I’ve been through all this before,’ he says to his heart. “ ‘Yes, you have been through all this before,’ replies his heart. ‘But you have never been beyond it.

If one partner gives himself completely, he breaks down the barriers of the other, however strong they may be. Because the act of giving means: "I trust you". The other, who to begin with may feel rather intimidated, wanting to prove things which aren't even under discussion, is unarmed by the spontaneity of such an attitude, and relaxes. At that moment, true sexual energy comes into play.

If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

To each of man's ages the Lord gives its own anxieties.

Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.

Love creates bridges where it would seem they were impossible.

she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to the far corners of the Earth, because he needed to be rich enough to buy some land and live in peace with her for the rest of their days. It was his utter confidence in this fragile creature, that had made him fight with honor, because he knew that after a battle he could forget all the horrors of war in her arms, and that, despite all the women he had known, only there in her arms could he close his eyes and sleep like a child.

There's a lot of me in it. But the character is more egotistical. I'm also egotistical, but not the way the character is. This guy is successful, he has everything, but his wife has left him. The most important value - love - is missing. What is wrong with this institution called 'marriage'? What is wrong with this institution called 'the pursuit of happiness'?

People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.

He also knows the importance of intuition.

An enthusiastic heart finds opportunities everywhere.

We are our own greatest surprise.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

The soul of the world is nourished by people's Happiness.

An encounter with the superior energy is open to anyone but remains far from those who shift responsibility onto others.

One of Love's qualities--namely, Forgiveness.

Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old.

Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked. "Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.

Enthusiasm is the force that leads us to the final victory.

The celebrity syndrome. When people forget who they are and start to believe what other people say about them.

But other people also 'invite' us to behave like victims, when they complain about the unfairness of life, for example, and ask us to agree, to offer advice, to participate. Be careful. When you join in that game you always end up losing.

I gaze lovingly at "Hilal" a love that is reflected through time or what we imagine to be time, as in a mirror. She was never mine and never will be; that is how it is. We are both creators and creatures, but we are also puppets in God's hands, and there is a line we cannot cross, a line that was drawn for reasons we cannot know. We can approach and even dabble our toes in the river but we are forbidden to plunge in and let ourselves be carried along by the current.

Why do they make things so complicated?" "So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand.," he said. "Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value." "It's those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work.

When we are unable to receive, we deny someone else the pleasure of giving.

To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.

Every Warrior of the Light has, at least once, believed he was not a Warrior of the Light.

music isn't just something that comforts or distracts us, it goes beyond that - it's an ideology. you can judge people by the kind of music they listen to.

It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.

If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination.

When the songs of your heart start singing, you should listen...for its harmony will bring you happiness and the melody is the voice of your true spirit.

But that moment exists - a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles.

We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.

And to those who believe that adventures are i say try routine: it kills you far more quickly.

Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: ‘the book is so much better than the film.

Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

Love can only be found through the act of loving.

But now I knew that true love was above all that and that it would be better to die than to fail to love.

Thats because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesnt teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.

I carry with me many scars, but I also carry with me moments that would not have happened if I had not dared to go beyond my limits

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

We are all different, and should do what we can do te remain so.

Emotions are wild horses.

Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny