Paulo Coelho Quotes

You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.

Even if you follow other people's advice and model successful people and their blueprints, you will still fail if you don't have confidence in yourself. Everything - absolutely everything - starts with you.

To heal our wounds, we need courage to face them.

Although I have been through all that I have, I do not regret the many hardships I met, because it was they who brought me to the place I wished to reach.

Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

When we can do nothing else, we can still love, without expecting any reward or change or gratitude.

We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

Remember your dreams and fight for them.

Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.

The great victory, which appears so simple today, was the result of a series of small victories that went unnoticed

The best way to be original is to be yourself.

When the Warrior takes on a commitment, he keeps his word.

Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession. It cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant.

We must play music quietly, talk quietly, weep in private, because I am the all-powerful Zahir, who lays down the rules and determines the distance between railway tracks, the meaning of success, the best way to love, the importance of rewards.

People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.

It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.

Travel is not about money, it's about courage.

The only thing tragedy gives us is the opportunity to rebuild our life.

We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules.

When you choose your attitude toward life, you can affect reality by making it better for you

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

Dreams are letters from the book your life is writing.

I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who silently fulfil the role life has given them. I want to be able to do this because the most important things, those that shape our existence, are precisely the ones that never show their faces.

The day is made up of 24 hours and an infinite number of moments. We need to be aware of those moments and make the most of them regardless of whether we're busy doing something or contemplating life.

To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain.

The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time.

In order to dominate the soul you must also learn to dominate the body. And in order to dominate the body you cannot fear pain.

Come on, let's go. Crazy people do crazy things.

When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena "signs," the sceptics "coincidence," and psychologists "concentrated focus," although I've yet to find out what term historians should use).

I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.

Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender.

If there is suffering, then it's best to accept it, because it won't go away just because you pretend it's not there. If there is joy, then it's best to accept that too, even though you're afraid it might end one day.

You can choose between being a victim of destiny or an adventurer who is fighting for something important.

We are afraid of losing what we have.

If someone is capable of loving his partner without restrictions, unconditionally, then he is manifesting the love of God. If the love of God becomes manifest, he will love his neighbor. If he loves his neighbor, he will love himself. If he loves himself, then everything returns to its proper place.

None of us can know what tomorrow will hold, because each day has its good and its bad moments.

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

Body and soul need new challenges.

Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy ourselves, the slaves of fame?

Many people in this world are merely playing a role, unaware that there is an Invisible Hand guiding them.

Finding something important in life does not mean that you must give up everything else.

I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.

If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating.

We pretend to be strong because we are weak.

No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around.

He is never cowardly.

Fight for your dreams, and your dreams will fight for you.