Paulo Coelho Quotes

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.

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

Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.

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.

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

Life is the train and not the station.

Don't try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.

Dreamers can't be tamed.

In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.

We must struggle for our dreams, but when certain paths prove impossible, it would be best to save our energies in order to travel other roads.

Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes a curse - and others will always choose for him.

Only someone who can say 'I love you' is capable of saying 'I forgive you.

One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

It took me 40 years to write my first book.

God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.

We cannot all see the dreams in the same way.

Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.

Love is, after all, a curse of suffering.

‎"The warrior who trusts his path doesn't need to prove the other is wrong.

What was broken will never be the same again.

None of us can know what tomorrow will hold, because each day has its good and its bad moments.

My smile is my way of saying: "You can destroy my body, but not my soul.

you only know yourself when you go beyond your limits

If we seek something, that same thing is seeking us.

Success does not come from having one's work recognized by others. It is the fruit of the seed that you lovingly planted.

LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation.

Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him.

To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.

Sometimes, we need to be strangers to ourselves. Then the hidden light in our soul will illuminate what we need to see.

We are responsible for the Universe because we are the Universe.

He knows that he must act, but he must allow room for the Universe to act too.

When we love, it is not necessary to understand what is happening outside, because everything happens inside us instead.

Each human being was given two qualities: power and the gift. Power directs us towards our destiny; the gift obliges us to share with others what is best in us.

Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal.

Seize every opportunity that life offers you because, when opportunities go, they take a long time to come back.

The celebrity syndrome. When people forget who they are and start to believe what other people say about them.

Learn to share your love with others, but keep part of this love for yourself

Life is too short for us to keep important words, for example, 'I love you', locked in our hearts.

There is always a right moment to stop something.

The moment of that kiss contained every happy moment I had ever lived.

Intelligent people discuss ideas. Fools discuss how people should behave.

Believe that if Allah wants you to know something, someone will tell you.

Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.

Collective madness is called sanity.

All life battles teach us something, even those we lose