Paulo Coelho Quotes

Too often, we decide to follow a path that is not really our own, one that others have set for us. We forget that...in both cases we will pass through both difficult and happy moments. But when we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter make sense.

Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.

You must always know what it is that you want.

And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.

Know how to get close to it: mountains are often seen from far off - beautiful, interesting, full of challenges. But what happens when we try to draw closer? Roads run all around them, flowers grow between you and your objective, what seemed so clear on the map is tough in real life. So try all the paths and all the tracks until eventually one day you're standing in front of the top that you yearn to reach.

Suffering has no strength to wound a weary body.

The warrior of light knows the importance of intuition. In the midst of battle, he does not have time to think of the enemy's blows, and so he uses his instinct and obeys his angel. in times of peace, he deciphers the signs that God sends him. People say, "He's mad." Or, "He lives in a fantasy world." Or even, "How can he possibly believe in such illogical things?" But the warrior knows that intuition is God's alphabet and he continues listening to the wind and talking to the stars.

When we boldly seek love, love reveals itself to us, and we end up attracting more love. If one person loves us, everybody loves us.

Yes, my mind was wandering. I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart someone with whom I could spend a little time without being afraid that i would lose him the next day. With that reassurance, the time would pass more slowly. We could be silent for a while because we'd know we had the rest of our lives together for conversation. I wouldn't have to worry about serious matters, about difficult decisions and hard words.

All things are manifestations of one thing only.

Anyone who has known happiness will never again be able humbly to accept sadness.

We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating the miracle of being here in this world.

It is not difficult to rebuild a life. All we need is to be aware that we have the same strength we had before, and to use it in our favor.

If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.

To love is to lose control.

‎"The warrior who trusts his path doesn't need to prove the other is wrong.

The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.

Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him.

Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by.

The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes.

If you live your life fully, you will die only once. But if you are scared, fear will kill you day after day

People read a lot of stories about witches, fairies, paranormals, and children possessed by evil spirits. They go to films showing rituals featuring pentagrams, swords, and invocations. That's fine, people need to give free reign to their imagination and to go through certain stages. Anyone who gets through those stages without being deceived will eventually get in touch with the Tradition.

The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions.

I learned that the search for God is a Dark Night, that Faith is a Dark Night. And that’s hardly a surprise really, because for us each day is a dark night. None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, and yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary. Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them because we have been taught that we must follow certain formulas and rules if we want to find God. We do not realize that God is wherever we allow Him/Her to enter.

When he is forced to perform the same task several times, the Warrior uses this tactic and transforms work into prayer.

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.

With love, there are no rules. The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.

In life's most significant moments we are always alone.

You have always fought against your dreams, and 'I want' has never even shown its face. It was always drowned out by 'I must' or 'I hope' or 'I need...'

Omens are the individual language in which God talks to you. My omens are not your omens.

How does light enter a person? Through the open door of love.

Not everyone can see his dreams come true in the same way.

No man is an island. To fight the good fight we need help.

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.

This time I m not going to tell you a story. I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there.

one cannot judge the beauty of a path merely by looking at its entrance.

Every man has a feminine side, and every woman a masculine side. It is important to use discipline with intuition, and to use intuition with objectivity.

They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.

Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.

And to know how to demand - with all one's might - what one wants

We must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

Go for the impossible. I always tried to find my own limits. So far I did not find them, so my universe is in constant expansion.

As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had no more rancor left in her heart. She had finally allowed her negative feelings to surface, feelings that had been repressed for years in her soul. She had actually FELT them, and they were no longer necessary, they could leave.

Love is the glue that keeps the stars in place.

He gives before he is asked.