Paulo Coelho Quotes

Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.

We can sell our time, but we can't buy it back.

Each human being has his own sexual profile, and should exercise it without guilt - provided he does not oblige others to exercise it with him.

Going after what I believe in.

If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it

because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

When you travel you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes more slowly, and on most journeys you don't even understand the language the people speak....You begin to be more accessible to others, because they may be able to help you in difficult situations.

When we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter make sense.

Our dreams are our own, and only we can know the effort required to keep them alive.

Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood.

God exists wherever He is allowed to enter.

Sak, pain, love are limited human experiences. and only those who know their own frontiers, those knows the life, the rest is just passing time.

The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others.

Everything moves, and everything moves to a rhythm. And everything that moves to a rhythm creates a sound. At this moment, the same thing is happening here and everywhere else in the world.

If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.

Learn to recognize omens, and follow them

I made some mistakes, but I wasn’t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do.

But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

I believe it is better to live a dream rather than to simply dream it. The dream is the start of something greater, something that impels us to make daring decisions. And it's true that the person who pursues a dream takes many risks. But the person who does not runs risks that are even greater.

When you know that language, it's easy to believe that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of the desert or in some great city... without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.

The biggest mistake of the man is that he thinks he doesn't deserve the good and the bad things from his life.

It's in the present that lies the secret: if you pay attention to the present you will be able to enhance it.

Dream and don't ask too many questions, or fear will overcome your feelings.

The pain of yesterday is the strength of today.

The Warrior knows the value of persistence and of courage.

Forgive your enemy, but do not mistake him for a friend.

Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.

There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.

What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars.

Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.

Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present

A man is at his strongest when he is willing to accept his vulnerability

Trust and start walking. We are not alone in the dark, our path will unfold as we move.

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.

Truth resides where there is faith.

God's decisions are always mysterious, but they are always in our favour.

Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of. It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Don't forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy Skies.

Love doesn't need to be discussed; it has its own voice and speaks for itself.

He needs both patience and speed.

This miracle is in the small things of daily life; we must live in the understanding that at every moment there is a way out of each problem, the way of finding that which is missing, the right clue to the decision which must be taken in order to change our entire future.

Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing;but it become a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life.

We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.

There is no such thing as a strange world, only a new world.