Paulo Coelho Quotes

He also knows that certain moments repeat themselves.

However difficult it may be to accept what happens to us, one must understand that moments such as this give us the possibility for radical change in our behavior.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

Everything is allowed, except interrupting a manifestation of love.

It's natural to be afraid of replacing everything you already gained by a dream.

Tears are words that need to be written.

A threat need not provoke a response if it is not taken up.

You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.

Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

To engage in any activity, the warrior needs to know what to expect, how to achieve the objective and whether or not he is capable of carrying out the proposed task.

We all harbour a great sadness in our soul

What makes people weak? Their need for validation and recognition, their need to feel important. Don't get caught in this trap.

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

It has been said that there is no such thing as coincidence in this world.

Your decision to walk creates the path ahead

When you dance, do you feel desire? Do you feel as if you were summoning up a greater energy? When you dance, are there moments when you cease to be yourself?

Her silence was the blank space between the words.

Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love.

Making mistakes is a way of taking action.

No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded

You may not be winning, but this doesn't mean you are losing

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

He however knows when the enemy is stronger.

The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: "I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.

In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.

Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content - not necessarily that which makes others content.

Any man who, having planted a vineyard, has not yet reaped the benefits should do so at once, so that he does not die in the struggle and leave it for another to enjoy.

There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

we can harness the energy of the winds, the seas, the sun . But the day man learns to harness the energy of love, that will be as important as the discovery of fire.

I love you', though, were three words she had often heard during her twenty-two years, and it seemed to her that they were now completely devoid of meaning, because they had never turned into anything serious or deep, never translated into a lasting relationship.

Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.

Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I'm going to have a husband, a home, two children, a house in the country. As long as they're busy doing that, they're like bulls looking for the bullfighter: they react instinctively, they blunder on, with no idea where the target is. They get their car, sometimes they even get a Ferrari, and they think that's the meaning of life, and they never question it. Yet their eyes betray the sadness that even they don't know they carry in their soul. Are you happy?

The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far.

It is not enough to dream of the Impossible Love - it is necessary to conquer it too.

Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them.

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people - preferably our parents, our spouses or our children - for our failure to realise our dreams.

Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World.

You need to wake up if you want to dream.

No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.

I believe everything is one thing only. That said, there are some questions in my life that I don't know.. I've stopped asking. At the very beginning of my life, I wanted to have answers for everything. And now I respect the fact that I can't have answers for everything.

You can only learn when you teach.

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

I never lose when I love. I only lose when I'm afraid to

People never leave, we are always here in our past and future lives.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. I don't want anything else in life. But you are forcing me to look at wealth and at horizons I have never known. Now that I have seen them, and now that I see how immense my possibilities are, I'm going to feel worse than I did before you arrived. Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.