Paulo Coelho Quotes
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.
Don't think about what you’ll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it.
There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.
Sometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps.
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.
The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other.
Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.
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.
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.
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.
They were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually wanting to live out their destiny.
In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience.
...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.
Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction
When we boldly seek love, love reveals itself to us, and we end up attracting more love. If one person loves us, everybody loves us.
The closer you get to your dream, the more your personal legend becomes your real reason for living.
People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.
I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.
So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.
When you have an intense contact of love with nature or another human being, like a spark, then you understand that there is no time and that everything is eternal.
People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.
We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.
