Paulo Coelho Quotes
The energy of hatred won't get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.
It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.
I love you because all the loves in the world are like different rivers flowing into the same lake where they meet and are transformed into a single love that becomes rain and blesses the earth.
But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation.
Before there was a proper understanding and a sense of God's presence, the idea that everything would one day end was utterly desolating.
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to give up all the other important things.
Just try to love, and manifest it. When your heart is open, there is this energy of love that flows in, fulfills everything and somehow transmutes itself into actions.
In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.
Because we managed to keep our heart open, despite the pain. Because we realized that the person who left us did not take the sun with them or leave darkness in their place.
A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means.
When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force.
You start living for the obsession alone ... You want to arrive somewhere regardless of whether you're enjoying the road or not.
Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.
No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it
Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.
A man has to choose. This is where lies his strength: in the power of his decisions. If you choose to follow the path of your dreams, commit yourself to it. Accept your path.
Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old.
It is necessary to run risks, to follow certain paths and to abandon others. No one can make a choice without feeling fear.
Face your path with courage, don't be scared of people's criticism. And, above all, don't let yourself get paralyzed by your own criticism.
You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.
When we step out of our normal world and leave behind us all the usual barriers and prejudices, we tend to become more adventurous.
It is not time that changes man nor knowledge the only thing that can change someone's mind is love.
Christ surrounded himself with beggars, prostitutes, tax-collectors and fishermen. ... what he meant by this was that the divine spark is in every soul and is never extinguished.
Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.
Before a dream is realized the soul of the world tests everything that was learned along the way.
It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility.
Love always triumphs over what we call death. That's why there's no need to grieve for our loved ones, because they continue to be loved and remain by our side.
When everything seems to be going well and your dream is almost within your gasp, that is when you must be more alert than ever.
Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days.
Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.