Paulo Coelho Quotes
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.
If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence
Although I have the colors, only the Lord can mix them with such harmony.
You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.
When you know the language of love,it's easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you.
There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher the world.
History will only change when we are able to use the energy of love, just as we use the energy of the wind, the seas, the atom.
I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.
Don't expect your genius to be discovered; do what you must do because it gives you joy. Don't expect your love to be accepted. Love because it justifies your life.
For the warrior, there is no "better" or "worse"; everyone has the necessary gifts for his particular path.
The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other.
...in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other... People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.
In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience.
They were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually wanting to live out their destiny.
Try to live with the same intensity as a child. He doesn't ask for explanations; he dives into each day as if it were a new adventure and, at night, sleeps tired and happy.
It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.
A Warrior knows that a great dream is made up of many different things, just as the light from the sun is the sum of its millions of rays.
Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.
Don't think about what you’ll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it.
"Difficulty" is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are.
We all have other halves, and when they're feeling bad, we get a little piece of the pain
The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.
No one can go back, but everyone can go forward. And tommorow, when the Sun rises, all you will have to say to yourself is: I am going to think of this day as the first day of my life.
Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he'll never move.
Whenever someone dies, a part of the universe dies too. Everything a person felt, experience and saw dies with them, like tears in the rain.
Sometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps.
