Paulo Coelho Quotes

So the Warrior fights the Good Fight and he helps others, even though he does not quite understand why.

Stop being who you were and become who you are.

Love one another, but let’s try not to possess one another.

Most human beings still cannot trust love.

Life is like cooking: before choosing what you love, try everything... ♥

I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.

Standing facing the door in an elevator and pretending you're the only person there, no matter how crowded it is.

Children are always looking at the world as if it was for the first time in their lives. So, we should always look to the world with the eyes of a child. I am not saying be naive, I am saying be innocent in the sense of discovering things.

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

All life battles teach us something, even those we lose

Angels are visible to those who accept the light and break the pact made with darkness.

Never stop dreaming and follow the omens.

It's the oasis," said the camel driver. "Well, why don't we go there right now?" the boy asked. "Because we have to sleep.

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

A search always starts with Beginner's Luck and ends with the Test of the Conqueror.

A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.

The great conquest is the result of small, unnoticed victories.

The world only gets better because people risk something to make it better. Thanks Egyptians

You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others.

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

We can't choose our lives, but we can DECIDE what to do with the joys or griefs we're given.

Every moment in life is an act of faith

Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity.

He uses common sense to judge not the intentions of an action but its consequences.

Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate.

Instead of noting down things I’m unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before and even if I never do so again, I will at least know that I once had the courage to put my feelings into words.

The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

Only three things can change our lives dreams, suffering and love

"This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than he was in his former life. Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead; and then lead will have to turn itself into gold. That's what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too."

Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.

There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.

Attacking or fleeing are part of the struggle; being paralysed by fear is not.

The devil is in the detail.

What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?

At the beginning of his struggle, the Warrior says: "I have dreams."

Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong.

If you want to understand love, first learn about freedom.

Déjà vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bother with things that make no sense. It show that time doesn't pass. It's a leap into something we have already experienced and that is being repeated.

Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the freedom that exists in the world of madness and becomes addicted to it. You no longer have to take on responsibilities, to struggle to earn your daily bread, to be bothered with repetitive, mundane tasks. You could spend hours looking at a picture or making absurd doodles. Everything is torelated because, after all, the person is mentally ill.

You could cry, get worried or angry like any other normal human being, as long as you remembered that, up above, your spirit was laughing out loud at all those thorny situations.

Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs.

The great virtue of those who seek the spiritual path is courage.

In any activity, we have to know what to expect, how to reach our objectives and what capacity we possess for the proposed task. The only people who can say they have renounced the fruit are those who, thus equipped, feel no desire for the results of the conquest, and remain absorbed in combat. You can renounce the fruit, but this renunciation does not mean indifference toward the result.

solitude is not absence of love, but its complement

He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. He had decided, the night before, that he would be as much an adventurer as the ones he had admired in books.

When you #‎ travel , you experience, in a very practical way, the act of #‎ rebirth .

We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are.

We must study things we will never use, but which someone told us were important to know.