Paulo Coelho Quotes

Break a pact. Accept forgiveness. Make a bet.

The only way to save our dreams is by being generous with ourselves.

Love always triumphs over what we call death. That's why there's no need to grieve for our loved ones, because they continue to be loved and remain by our side.

The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him. Be attentive, but don't be paranoiac.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public

And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near

A Warrior of the Light has no regrets, because regrets can kill.

The story of one person is the story of all of humanity.

Ever since time began, people have recognized their true Love by the light in their eyes.

In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

A flower is not better when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each stage it is the same thing — a flower in the process of expressing its potential.

Never abandon your dreams. Follow the signs.

The true lover realizes that freedom is needed for loyalty to blossom.

The Warrior knows about the "waterfall effect".

Time heals almost everything. But when you are healed, you are too old to enjoy

Time that never ends, that never passes, that remains in the present, where all of life's secrets lie.

A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest.

He is also wary of people who think they know the path.

The moment that he begins to walk along it, the warrior of the light recognizes the path.

Impossible is just an opinion.

When we are walking our chosen path, we walk elegantly, emanating light.

If his decision is correct, he will win the battle, even if it lasts longer than expected. If his decision is wrong, he will be defeated and he will have to start all over again-only this time with more wisdom. But once he has started, a warrior of the light perseveres until the end.

Be realistic: always wish the impossible.

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory.

Getting married, having children, and staying together long after all love has died, saying that it's for the good of the children (who are, apparently, deaf to the constant rows).

Whatever I did, I did with love and I did with honesty.

In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die? No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.

Life becomes interesting for the possibility to fulfill a dream.

Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable.

In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.

Love rules, but no one knows where it has its throne; in order to know that secret place, you must first submit to Love.

You start living for the obsession alone ... You want to arrive somewhere regardless of whether you're enjoying the road or not.

We cannot all see the dreams in the same way.

And they will return one day knowing the miracle of the heavens and of all the world. God knew what he was doing when he drew their attention to the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If he hadn’t wanted them to eat it, he would never have mentioned it.

Men always have their reasons. But the fact is that they always wind up leaving.

The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others.

True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do

O God, when I listen to the voices of animals, the sounds of trees, the murmurings of water, the singing of birds, the whistling of the wind, or the boom of thunder, I see in them evidence of Your unity; I feel that You are supreme power, omniscience, supreme knowledge, and supreme justice. I recognize You, O God, in the trials I am going through. May Your pleasure be my pleasure, too. May I be Your joy, the joy that a Father feels for a son. And may I think of You calmly and with determination, even when I find it hard to say I love You.

It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.

From that day on, it was the desert that would be important. She would look to it everyday, and would try to guess which star the boy was following in search of his treasure. She would have to send her kisses on the wind hoping that the wind would touch the boy's face, and would tell him that she was alive.

We learn to fight and to grow strong by fighting.

A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent.

If I believe I will win, then victory will believe in me.

Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.

My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

Everyone has their own way of learning.