Paulo Coelho Quotes

When we feel weak, all we have to do is wait a little while. The spring returns and the winter snows melt and fill us with new energy.

The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I am still crying. To believe even when I am discredited.

Everything depends on which path you take.

...and I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be.

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

If you are never alone you cannot know yourself. And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.

Come on, let's go. Crazy people do crazy things.

Only the defeated know LOVE. because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles - and generally lose.

the power of beauty:what must the world be like for ugly women?

Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.

Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible.

I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.

He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom.

True love does not consist in trying to correct others, but in feeling joy that things are better than we expected.

Transformations always occur during moments of crisis.

Real love changes and grows with time and discovers new ways of expressing itself.

Keeping a smile on your lips even when you're on the verge of tears. Feeling sorry for those who show their feelings.

With every farewell comes a hidden hope.

He knows his own faults, but also knows his qualities.

Be a source of joy. And let haters complain about the world.

Visit your soul; don't visit your past.

When we can do nothing else, we can still love, without expecting any reward or change or gratitude.

The warrior is always trying to improve.

Moving slowly enables us to learn faster.

In true love you want your partner to be happy. In false love you want your partner.

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love.

He's seeing my soul, my fears, my fragility, my inability to deal with a world which i pretend to master, but about which I know nothing

Love doesn't limit itself to relationships: it is a celebration of life.

There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is lasting.

No man is an island. To fight the good fight we need help.

We must marry, have children, reproduce the species.

The great virtue of those who seek the spiritual path is courage.

Then, accepting the help of God and of God's signs, he allows his personal legend to guide him toward the tasks that life has reserved for him.

Postponing doing the really interesting things in life for later, when you don't have the energy.

Hatred is public demonstration of inferiority complex.

Sometimes it's better to leave things as they are, he thought to himself, and decided to say nothing.

If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps.

First quality: you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps. We call that hand God, and He always guides us according to His will.

Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God.

If you're asking me if I like your company, the answer is yes. If, on the other hand, you're asking me if I could live without you, the answer is also yes.

Most of the times, aggression will drive your enemy to do something that you are trying to prevent.

It is necessary to be humble in order to learn.

The warrior of light plunges unhesitatingly into the river of passions always flowing through his life.

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.

We have to be prepared for change.

Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.

Often, warriors find their lives meaningless.

Each Warrior of the Light contains within him the spark of God.

Yesterday's pain is the Warrior of the Light's strength.