Paulo Coelho Quotes

I don't go to parties in general.

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

The universe always helps us fight for our dreams, no matter how foolish they may be.

Our dreams are our own, and only we can know the effort required to keep them alive.

If you say it was the "last" time, it might well turn out to be the last. What you meant was "the most recent time I was here".

Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality.

Respect those who grew up and learned alongside you. Respect those who taught you.

Only those who find life, find treasures.

Thats because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesnt teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.

Time neither moves nor is stationary. Time changes.

Never talking to strangers. Saying nasty things about the neighbors.

The Warrior knows the value of persistence and of courage.

A Warrior knows when a battle is worth fighting.

He also knows the importance of intuition.

The warrior of the Light sits around a fire with his companions.

The Warrior listens to the words of certain thinkers.

He does not however postpone making decisions.

A Warrior knows that his best teachers are the people whom he shares the battlefield.

He is also a victim of some injustice; he usually tries to be alone, in order to show his pain to others.

Then all that is needed is a little daring, and his two lives become one.

I never say I am a guru.

You can just look at a mountain and get a connection with God, you don't have to understand the mountain to feel that.

Don't allow anyone to steal your joy.

In dire times you can lose joy, but you can't lose hope. Hope is your guide.

The soul loves all things beautiful and deep.

Our sexual energy, when not properly mastered, is transformed into anger.

Postpone joy, it will diminish. Postpone a problem, it will grow.

The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being.

You could cry, get worried or angry like any other normal human being, as long as you remembered that, up above, your spirit was laughing out loud at all those thorny situations.

Remember your dreams and fight for them.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.

You say they create their own reality," said Veronika, "but what is reality?

And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.

The future would end up finding out the truth about the past.

she considered the possibility of telling her about everything that was happening, but then she changed her mind; people never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves.

God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.

Happiness is the only goal worth pursuing

When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories.

it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear

Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present

The best way to weaken one's enemy was to get him to believe that you were on his side.

Time does not pass, it merely changes.

That's how love got lost ... when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear.

Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honor of losing and the joy of winning.

Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side.

Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field.

People who are on a spiritual quest don't think, they simply want results.

I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I didn't want to go in.