Paulo Coelho Quotes

If you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.

The pain of yesterday is the strength of today.

Change. But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed

To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.

It’s not always enough to be forgiven by someone, in most cases we have to forgive ourselves first.

We are all pilgrims in search of the unknown.

Now go back and meet all those people who you think know everything. Convince yourself that they're right, because we all know everything, it's merely a question of believing.

An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.

When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue.

A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.

Never apologize for being yourself.

The Good Fight is the one that we fight in the name of our dreams.

People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.

Life is like the Internet: sometimes is almost impossible to connect.

Everyone when they are young knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.

Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable.

To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation.

Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.

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

But no one can lose sight of what he desires. Even if there are moments when he believes the world and the others are stronger. The secret is this: do not surrender.

Time heals almost everything. But when you are healed, you are too old to enjoy

The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.

You will be loved and respected only if you love and respect yourself.

If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.

Sometimes, you get no second chance and that its best to accept the gifts the world offers you.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me.

He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove.

From the moment that you don't fear to share your heart, you are a free person.

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

When mouths close, it’s because there’s something important to be said.

The moment that he begins to walk along it, the warrior of the light recognizes the path.

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

Every human being should know two languages: the language of society and the language of signs. One serves to communicate with other people, the other serves to understand God's messages.

Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.

Dreams are the language of God.

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

I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.

My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer.

Life moves very fast. it rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

Although I have the colors, only the Lord can mix them with such harmony.

You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us.

People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.

Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present".

Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.

Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.

If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.