Paulo Coelho Quotes

I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.

Don't ask permission. If it does not work, you can apologize later.

He too knows how to lose.

Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)

But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to become passionate about something that was impossible. I knew my limits; I knew how much suffering i could bear.

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

When every day seems the same, it is because we have stopped noticing the good things that appear in our lives.

In dire times you can lose joy, but you can't lose hope. Hope is your guide.

Beware of anyone who tries to please you all the time.

Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad. It was a very strong temptation.

Like the fighter, the Warrior is aware of his own immense strength; he never fights with anyone who does not deserve the honor of combat.

Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life from one moment to the next. But there's the other side of the coin, the second thing that could make a human being take a totally different course from one he or she had planned; and that was called despair. Yes, perhaps love really could transform someone, but despair did the job more quickly.

Postponing doing the really interesting things in life for later, when you don't have the energy.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Don't think about what you've left behind.

The darkest hour was just before dawn.

We are all a part of the divine spark. All have a purpose in creation and that purpose is called Love. That love, however, shouldn't be concentrated in just one person, it should be scattered throughout the world, waiting to be discovered. Wake up that love. What is gone cannot return. What is about to arrive needs to be recognized.

Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be.

What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want? You want to justify your life, to live it as intensely as possible. That is at once a trap and a source of ecstasy. Try to be alert to that danger and experience the joy and the adventure of being that woman who is beyond the image reflected in the mirror.

You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation.

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.

When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive.

We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination

They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.

God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.

But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery.

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when that person looks back – and at some point everyone looks back – she will hear her heart saying, “What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of losing those talents. So this is your heritage; the certainty that you wasted your life.

All men are different. And should do everything possible to continue to be so.

Those who never take risks can only see other people's failures.

But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best.

You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.

Perseverance brings good luck.

Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive . and it has a soul. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us.

The boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and saw that it was part of the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles.

This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your generosity to the pilgrims.' 'But this payment goes well beyond my generosity,' the monk responded. 'Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.

As soon as people decide to confront a problem, they realize that they are far more capable than they thought they were.

The brave are always stubborn

Of all the ways we have found to hurt ourselves, the worse has been through love. We are always suffering because of someone who doesn't love us, or someone who has left us, or someone who won't leave us. If we are alone, it is because no one wants us.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.

It's important though to distinguish between religion and spirituality.

The beauty of truth: whether it is bad or good, it is liberating.

Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction