Paulo Coelho Quotes

No matter how you are feeling, get up every morning and prepare to let your light shine forth.

I #‎ forgive not because I became a saint, but because I'm tired of hating.

We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as the years accumulate, so too do the layers of prejudice, fear and guilt. There comes a time when our personal calling is so deeply buried in our soul as to be invisible. But know that it's still there.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

Being equally convinced that aggression and rudeness are synonymous with having a "powerful personality."

If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.

Courage is the first spiritual quality that you need to have.

There is no sin but the lack of love.

Only my insanity keeps me sane in today's world.

The three classic ways in which the Devil tempts us are with a threat, a promise or a seduction.

As so often in life, things are not always what it seems.

Respect those who grew up and learned alongside you. Respect those who taught you.

Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested." The boy remembered an old proverb from his country. It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.

Anyone who is observant, who discovers the person they have always dreamed of, knows that sexual energy comes into play before sex even takes place. The greatest pleasure isn't sex, but the passion with which it is practiced. When the passion is intense, then sex joins in to complete the dance, but it is never the principal aim.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.

There must be a language that doesn't depend on words.

Lie down on the ground and feel the planet's heart beating.

If we are desperate, though , if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.

A Warrior is always vigilant.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

The warrior knows that he is free to choose his desires, and he makes these decisions with courage, detachment, and - sometimes - with just a touch of madness.

They spent days, nights, weeks, and years talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice.

Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.

God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.

I was tired of playing the child and acting the way many of my friends did - the ones who are afraid that love is impossible without even knowing what love is. If I stayed like that, I would miss out on everything good that these few days with him might offer.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Don't think about what you’ll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it.

everyone knows how to love because we are all born with that gift.

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.

I'm afraid that if my dream is realized, I'll have no reason to go on living.

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.

If you think small, your world will be small. If you think big, your world will be big.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

After weeks on the road, listening to a language you don’t understand, using a currency whose value you don’t comprehend, walking down streets you’ve never walked down before, you discover that your old “I,” along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences.

Only the possibility of carrying out a dream makes our life worth living.

Success is falling down 7 times but getting up 8!

Take these," said the old man, holding out a white stone and a black stone that had been embedded at the center of the breastplate. "They are called Urim and Thummim. The black signifies 'yes,' and the white 'no.' When you are unable to read the omens, they will help you to do so. Always ask an objective question.

The only reason anyone would sell salt more cheaply than usual would be because he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect for the sweat and struggle of the man who laboured to produce it.

life is the moment we're living right now.

The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is the same thing with human beings. When male knowledge joins with female transformation, then the great magical union is created, and its name is wisdom. Wisdom means both to know and to transform.

That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation and transformation, love is preserved.

you would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you to be your sole and exclusive standard

When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.

Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons.