Paulo Coelho Quotes

Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.

Love simply is. [...] Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.

Sorrows do not last forever when we are journeying towards the thing we have always wanted.

The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes.

There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.” ~Deidre O’Neill, known as Edde (p. 213)

Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.

We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.

All love stories are the same.

If we are desperate, though , if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.

Everything we see… is just the visible part of reality.

He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. He had decided, the night before, that he would be as much an adventurer as the ones he had admired in books.

Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision.

Everything in life has its price.

Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul. Because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take.

Finding something important in life does not mean that you must give up everything else.

Faith is difficult to conquer and requires daily battles if it is to be maintained.

We pretend to be strong because we are weak.

Love is an act of faith, not an exchange. Contradictions are what make love grow. Conflicts are what allow love to remain by our side.

We need to clear our minds of bad thoughts.

A Warrior knows that everything a person does has enduring consequences.

People destroy what they love.

There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end.

You will fail many times but in failing you'll learn and in learning you'll find your way. Remember, there are no mistakes in life but only lessons, and lessons will keep on repeating until learned

You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person? ... I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn't turn into ... a Zahir.

However difficult it may be to accept what happens to us, one must understand that moments such as this give us the possibility for radical change in our behavior.

We are entering a new world in which we can choose to follow our own steps, not those that society forces us to take.

Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.

The greatest sin is to miss the point of human existence.

About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.

We hereby declare the end to the wall dividing the sacred from the profane: from now on, all is sacred.

Each human being has the right to two blessings, which are: the blessing to do right, and the blessing to err. In the latter case, there is always a path of learning leading to the right way.

The Saint finds her true reason for living in unconditional love and in her ability to give without asking anything in return.

The great blessing of life is the existence of tomorrows - and having dreams to realize.

We must at all costs avoid saying no because people prefer those who say yes, and this allows us to survive in hostile territory.

I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change.

A warrior of light knows that in the silence of his heart he will hear an order that will guide him.

In reality things reveal nothing to us. It is people who, by looking into at things, discover a way of penetrating the Soul of the World.

Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen.

Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate.

Being equally convinced that aggression and rudeness are synonymous with having a "powerful personality."

Sometimes Evil pursues the Warrior of the Light, and when it does, he calmly invites it into his tent.

Love accepts its companion unconditionally and allow each to grow in his or her own way.

The Warrior of the Light knows that everyone is afraid of everyone else.

We shall choose our adversaries, not the other way around.

We are what we do, and not what we think we must do.

God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.

Don't think about what you've left behind.

Physical elegance comes from the body. This is no superficial matter but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

When you #‎ travel , you experience, in a very practical way, the act of #‎ rebirth .

The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other