Paulo Coelho Quotes (230 Quotes)

The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles.

Enamoured making love regularly, even when he doesn't making love.

Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.

Dont forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.......above all dont forget to follow your destiny through to its conclusion

I only invoked what you already knew.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.

To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation.

And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us.

They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to have a degree. And thus the world was deprived of some excellent gardeners, bakers, antique dealers, sculptors, and writers.

Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other?

The vast majority of the inmates, however, heard the news, pretended to be shocked and sad, but actually felt relieved because once more the exterminating angel had passed over Villete, and they had been spared.

Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.

Love one another, but let's try not to possess one another.

We live in a vale of tears...We can have all the dreams we like, but life is hard, implacable, sad.

Dreams are the language of God.

If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.

It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader.

Tomorrow, sell our camel and buy a horse. Camels are traitorous: they walk thousands of paces and never seem to tire. Then suddenly, they kneel and die. But horses tire bit by bit. You always know how much you know you can ask of them, and when it is that they are about to die.

But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person in a lifetime. I remarried. I'm very happy with my new wife, and I can't imagine living without her. This, however, doesn't mean that I have to renounce all my past experiences, as long as I'm careful not to compare my two lives. You can't measure love the way you can the length of a road or the height of a building.

We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation.

Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses. She could almost touch the destructive energy leaking out of her body. She allowed the feeling to emerge, regardless of whether it was good or bad; she was sick of self-control, of masks, of appropriate behavior. Veronika wanted to spend her remaining two or three days of life behaving as inappropriately as she could.

They spent days, nights, weeks, and years talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice.

He's seeing my soul, my fears, my fragility, my inability to deal with a world which i pretend to master, but about which I know nothing

No one owns anything. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.

If there hadn't been a sixth day, man would not exist; copper would always be copper; and lead just lead. It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only.

Jika kau menginginkan sesuatu, maka seluruh alam semesta akan bersatu membantumu.

The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other.

Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.

Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration.

What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?

Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem

We all live in our own world. But if you look up at the starry sky - you'll see that all the different worlds up there combine to form constellations, solar systems, galaxies.

How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly?

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

Alchemist is like getting up at dawn and seeing the sun rise when other are asleep

Everything in life has its price.

If what you found was made from pure matter, it will never spoil. And you can come back one day. If it was just one moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you will find nothing on your return. But you would have seen an explosion of light. And that alone would already be worth the journey.

Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.

The boy knew a lot of people in the city. That was was what made traveling appeal to him-- he always made new friends, and he didn't need to spend all if his time with them.

We are afraid of losing what we have.

Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us,...

What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars.

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

What is I? It's what you are, not what others make of you.

I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.