Paulo Coelho Quotes
Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success
Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death.
The only trap I must beware not to fall into, is to think that each day is the same as the next. In fact, each morning brings with it a hidden miracle, and we must pay attention to this miracle.
We never lose our loved ones. The accompany us; they don't disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.
She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault of that insecure little boy, who had given up after the first attempt.
It's better to live cherishing a dream than face the possibilty that it might all come to nothing.
That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you.
Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.
Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: "you don't have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality."
I am living here and now. The blessing of my life is that I am totally concentrating on the present moment. And I want to be because there is nothing but the present moment.
As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.
You need to change yourself. The moment that you change yourself it is a gigantic step. And this is what I do. The book is much more important than the writer.
You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other type was Hemingway who celebrated life and also wrote a masterpiece.
Walking helps me a lot to feel alive, and I do this every single day, my wife and I. We have long conversations about nature, and we also walk silently, just contemplating.
I am going to die. But I am going to die in peace because I lived my life as intensely as I could.
Happiness is this place that, once you arrive there, you have nothing else to do. You get bored. Passion is this up and down; it's like a rollercoaster, you know, and much more interesting to me.
Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.
Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.
It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and, when the wind turns against us, always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds, or to blame someone else for our mistakes.
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have togive up all the other important things.
Go and get your things, ' he said. 'Dreams mean work.
Isn't wine prohibited here?" the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil, " said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way.
God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle ofthis adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.