Paulo Coelho Quotes

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

Behind a cold face there is always an insecure heart.

Success is falling down 7 times but getting up 8!

Only cowards hide behind silence.

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.

But if I don’t think about love, I will be nothing.

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.

To heal my wounds, I need to be brave enough to face them.

If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.

Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction

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.

A man is at his strongest when he is willing to accept his vulnerability

That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.

There is only one way to learn... It's through action.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

I'm proud of the scars in my soul. They remind me that I have an intense life.

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

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

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.

The person who is right is the person who is the strongest, in this case, paradoxically, it's the cowards who are the brave ones, and they manage to impose their ideas on everyone else.

If something happens once, it may never happen again. If it happens twice it most likely will keep happening.

Profound commitment to a dream does not confine or constrain: it liberates. Even a difficult, winding path can lead to your goal if you follow it to the end.

Mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity.

Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person. To love somebody isn't just a strong feeling. It is a decision, a judgment, and a promise.

Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul

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.

Making mistakes is a way of taking action.

A great pleasure in life is to do what they say you can't.

Find someone who makes you smile, because it only takes a smile to make a day better

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are, and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality, it connects you to reality.

You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation.

The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.

In these words lies all his power: He chose the path along which he is walking and so has no complaints.

In life's most significant moments we are always alone.

We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating the miracle of being here in this world.

Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle.

Love your enemy. But don't forget he is not your friend

Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely.

Straight roads do not make skillful drivers.

She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.

And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.

to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.

As he was about to climb yet another dune, his heart whispered, "Be aware of the place where you are brought to tears. That's where I am, and thats where your treasure is.

The night is just a part of the day

Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.

If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.

Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.