Paulo Coelho Quotes

If you have a work instead of a job, every day is holiday

Love is an act of faith, not an exchange

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

When I had all the answers, the questions changed.

We could go back to the time when we first met: a man in emotional tatters over someone who had left him, and a woman madly in love with her neighbor. I could repeat what I said to you once: 'I'm going to fight to the bitter end.' Well, I fought and I lost, and now I'll just have to lick my wounds and leave.

Man needs to choose, not just accept, his destiny.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

In the southern hemisphere, covering the Christmas tree with fake snow even though winter has nothing to do with the birth of Christ.

In order to arrive you must follow the signs. God inscribed on the world the path that each man must follow. It is just a matter of reading the inscription He wrote for you.

I'm afraid of taking steps that are not on the map, but by taking those steps despite my fears, I have a much more interesting life.

You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other type was Hemingway who celebrated life and also wrote a masterpiece.

If you want to be faithful to someone, start by being faithful to yourself.

A responsible Warrior is one who has proved able to observe and to learn.

Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent because otherwise, you'd sink into chaos.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.

A life without a cause is a life without effect.

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

Loving means being open to miracles, to victories and defeats, to everything that happens each day that was given us to walk upon the face of the Earth.

Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.

It is not a sin to be happy, it is not a virtue to be miserable.

I am love, I am music, she thinks. Let’s dance.

Love cannot exist in peace, it will always come accompanied by agonies, ecstasies, intense joys and profound sadnesses.

Walk firmly and with joy, without being afraid of stumbling. All your movements are being watched by your allies that will help you when necessary.

Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.

How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly?

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. 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.

To believe in your choice you don't need to prove that other people's choices are wrong.

God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.

Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.

Everything in life is about sharing; it is part of the human condition

Only when l know, the truth will set me free!

We Learn about love by loving.

The search can be as interesting as the fear you feel, as long as you overcome that fear.

Why do we have to listen to our hearts?” the boy asked, when they had made camp that day. “Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you’ll find your treasure.” “But my heart is agitated,” the boy said. “It has its dreams, it gets emotional, and it’s become passionate over a woman of the dessert. It asks things of me, and it keeps me from sleeping many nights when I’m thinking about her.” “Well, that’s good. Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say.

Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens - where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me.

So for the question I go to the mystery of it and say I don't know. I only know that I am alive and there is something that manifests in my life, that it is God and one day I am going to understand my life, probably in the day that I die, or afterwards. But I try to find good questions and not good answers.

The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other.

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

People always arrive promptly at the places where they are expected.

Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them.

He seemed to be talking about my fears, my insecurity, and my unwillingness to see what was wonderful because tomorrow it might disappear and I might suffer. The gods throw the dice, and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to you will feed that dark side of your soul, where you consider yourself wronged, suffering, guilty and deserving punishment. If you choose to be an adventurer, the changes - even the inevitable losses, since everything in this world changes - can cause some pain, but will soon thrust you forward, forcing you to react.

In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better days ahead, as, I suspect is your case. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the fate awaits those who believe promises.

Does he love me? “You’re asking the wrong question. What you need to know is are you in a position to give him the love he needs. And whatever happens or doesn’t happen will be equally gratifying, knowing that you are capable of love is enough. If it isn’t him, it will be someone else… Don’t try to keep a safe distance so as to see what happens. Don’t wait to be certain before you take a step. What you give, you will receive, although it might sometimes come from the place you least expect.

I am going to die. But I am going to die in peace because I lived my life as intensely as I could.

Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.

Each person is different and each one will reach God by his or her own path.