Paulo Coelho Quotes

He who loves has conquered the world and has no fear of losing anything. True love is an act of total surrender.

We all harbour a great sadness in our soul

Our human condition makes us tend to share only the best of ourselves, because we are always searching for love and approval

God, in his infinite wisdom, hid Hell in he middle of Paradise, to keep us on our toes.

People always arrive promptly at the places where they are expected.

In our obsessive wish to arrive, we often forget the most important thing, which is the journey.

Never cease doubting. When the doubts stop it is because you have stopped journeying.

There is no such thing as a strange world, only a new world.

The search for something can prove as interesting as finding it.

The warrior knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words. Yes. Love. God. They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.

Feelings form part of a world in which time, space and frontiers do not exist.

How does light enter a person? Through the open door of love.

You will not find the treasure of your Personal Legend unless you want to live that Legend.

We are neither worse nor better than those who eye us critically.

Everyone has their own way of learning.

It is important never to relax, however far you have come.

You can only learn when you teach.

We learn to fight and to grow strong by fighting.

All battles have some use, including those in which we were defeated.

Few take up the burden of their own victory; most give up their dreams when these become impossible.

Forgive your enemy, but do not mistake him for a friend.

Fine words lack all meaning when we are confronted by real suffering.

A faithless fan can make a team lose a game they have won.

Anyone who loves needs to know both how to lose himself and how to find himself.

A threat need not provoke a response if it is not taken up.

The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others.

To attain his dream, the warrior of light needs a strong will and an enormous capacity for acceptance.

Any man who, having planted a vineyard, has not yet reaped the benefits should do so at once, so that he does not die in the struggle and leave it for another to enjoy.

The Road to Santiago is the road of ordinary people.

The pain barrier was not a barrier for her; she could go beyond it.

The warrior of Light perseveres in his desire, but knows he must wait for the best moment.

When we have great treasures before us, we can never see them.

The search can be as interesting as the fear you feel, as long as you overcome that fear.

A warrior of light needs both patience and speed. He treats each situation as if it were unique.

There is a huge difference between danger and fear.

If only we could be enlightened enough to be able to listen in the silence.

He celebrates yesterday's victory in order to gain more strength for tomorrow's battle.

Man needs to choose, not just accept, his destiny.

Attacking or fleeing are part of the struggle; being paralysed by fear is not.

A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.

Sak, pain, love are limited human experiences. and only those who know their own frontiers, those knows the life, the rest is just passing time.

We are what we believe ourselves to be

I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.

Be realistic: always wish the impossible.

Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent because otherwise, you'd sink into chaos.

Any resistance is not only normal but necessary-it is part of the creative process.

May we understand that fear of failure is worse than failure itself

The True Lover is the one who realizes that Loyalty must go hand in hand with Freedom.

A warrior of light knows that certain impossible battles are worth fighting and so he/she is not afraid of being disappointed, knowing the power of his/her love.

A warrior knows that the farthest-flung star in the Universe reveals itself in the things around him.