Paulo Coelho Quotes

Enjoy your magic moment today. As it will not be here tomorrow.

the reward of our work is not what we get, but what we become

What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Warriors of light are not perfect.Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

Why is patience so important?" "Because it makes us pay attention.

You are your own best friend. Never ever, put yourself down.

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.

Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.

Tears are words that need to be written.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.

Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

Don't let anyone make you feel that you don't deserve the good things that happen in your life

Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.

Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

Don't say maybe if you want to say no.

Don't fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul.

If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.

Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

A wise person is full of questions. A dull person is full of answers.

Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

Never save the best for later. You don't know what tomorrow holds.

Life is not about good answers, it is about interesting questions.

Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.

When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see.

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

Life is a journey. How we travel is really up to us. We can just flow with the tide or follow our own dreams.

If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

Whatever I did, I did with love and I did with honesty.

One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

The best way to live a miserable life is to pay attention to what other people are saying about you.

One never knows what life may have in store for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is.

The world we live in will be either better or worse depending on whether we become better or worse.