Paulo Coelho Quotes
It's better to lose some of battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you're fighting for.
Remember that human wisdom is madness in the eyes of God. But if we listen to the child who lives in our soul, our eyes will grow bright.
We're living in an age in which everything is allowed, and democracy is being devoured and destroyed by that limitless freedom.
It’s whatever the majority deems it to be. It’s not necessarily the best or the most logical, but it’s the one that has become adapted to the desires of society as a whole.
Even from a distance, their eyes conveyed the strength of their souls. And their eyes spoke of death.
Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.
The act if living one's own destiny includes a series of stages that are far beyond our understanding, whose objective is always to... make us learn the lessons necessary to fulfill our own destiny.
You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love… the love that speaks the Language of the World.
You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love.
Athena always lived between two worlds: what she felt was true and what she as been taught by her faith.
Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I felt as if nature was in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul.
See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.
I had never heard her sound so calm, so resigned to her fate. She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on.
It was a prayer that he had never said before, because it was a prayer without words or pleas.
Stay close 2 those who r by ur side in happy times, because they do not harbor jealousy or envy in their hearts, only joy 2 c u happy...
Then the Warrior realizes that these repeated experiences have but one aim: to teach him what he does not want to learn.
Don’t try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference
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.
They spent days, nights, weeks and months talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice
Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.
that's why I want you to continue toward your goal. If you have to wait until the war is over, then wait. But if you have to go before then, go on in pursuit of your dream.
Then, sometime during the fourth year, the omens will abandon you, because you've stopped listening to them.
...you are different from me, because you want to realize your dreams, I just want to dream...I'm afraid it will all be a disappointment, so I prefer just to dream...
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time
If a person is living out his Personal Legend, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
But they both agreed that it's always nice to know that your wife is desired by another man, although they wouldn't go any further than that.
I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something important to be said.
Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.
She was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on.
And when I think about it, I guess it is true that people always arrive at the right moment at the place where someone awaits them
Now she knew where to find me, if it was written that we would meet again, we would. The important thing is to allow fate to intervene in our lives and to decide what is best for everyone.
The act of living one's own destiny includes a series of stages that are far beyond our understanding, whose objective is always to... make us learn the lessons necessary to fulfill our own destiny.
All this was new to me. Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move towards the unknown - even when we don't want to and we think we don't need to.
It's now what enters men's mouths that's evil. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
Men who have nothing to lose never give a thought for eternal life.
Evil would never bring Good, however much they wanted to believe that it would. By the time they discovered the truth, it would be too late.