Paulo Coelho Quotes (230 Quotes)

I love you', though, were three words she had often heard during her twenty-two years, and it seemed to her that they were now completely devoid of meaning, because they had never turned into anything serious or deep, never translated into a lasting relationship.

Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read.

And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.

God has a prepared path for us to follow. We just have to read the omens he has left for us.

If you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.

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

We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or of moments that could have been found but were forever hidden in the sands.

If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.

Man struggles to survive, not to succumb

You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?

I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won't survive.

She thinks about the other prostitutes who work with her. She thinks about her mother and her friends. They all believe that man feels desire for only eleven minutes a day, and that they'll pay a fortune for it. That's not true; a man is also a woman; he wants to find someone, to give meaning to his life.

Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.

God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.

I'm afraid that if my dream is realized, I'll have no reason to go on living.

No heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.

The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.

When each day is the same as the nest it's because people fail to reconize the good things that happen in thier lives everyday the sunrises,

If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.

As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had no more rancor left in her heart. She had finally allowed her negative feelings to surface, feelings that had been repressed for years in her soul. She had actually FELT them, and they were no longer necessary, they could leave.

Many people don't allow themselves to love...because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past.

I've learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you're with me, even when you're not by my side.

She wants to drink that man too, and then she can forget forever the cheap wine that you gulp down and that makes you feel drunk, but always leaves you with a headache and an empty space in your soul.

As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.

He felt the urge to go into the desert, to see if it's silence held the answers to his questions.

I'm alive. When I'm eating that's all I think about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have to fight,it will be just as good a day as any to die. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life is the moment we are living now.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.

In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.

Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.

If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.

She was doing it because she had nothing to lose, because her life was one of constant, day to day frustration.

Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present"."

He had to choose beween something he had been accustomed to and something he wanted to have.

In the long run, what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own Personal Legends.

Not everyone can see his dreams come true in the same way.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

When you make a decision, you are really diving in a strong current that will bring you to places you never dreamed of when you first made that decision

Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession. It cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant.

Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.

She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.

And the person who loves wholeheartedly feels free.

If you want to achieve your objectives, you have to be prepared for a daily dose of pain or discomfort. At first, it's unpleasant and demotivating, but in time you come to realise that it's part of the process of feeling good, and the moment arrives when, if you don't feel pain, you have a sense that the exercises aren't having the desired effect.

She wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day, in the silence of her heart, in the tedium of old age, she would remember almost with nostalgia - however absurd that might seem.

Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny