Paulo Coelho Quotes (230 Quotes)

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

He hadn't a cent in his pocket, but he had faith !

Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.

People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.

The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.

When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.

Many of us are returning from a long journey during which we were forced to search for things that were of no interest to us. Now we realize that they were false. But this return cannot be made without pain, because we have been away for a long time and feel that we are strangers in out own land. It will take some time to find the friends who also left, and the places where our roots and treasures lie. But this will happen.

Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous.

She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination she was making love with men of all skin colors--white, black, yellow--with homosexuals and beggars. She was anyone's, and anyone could do anything to her. She had one, two, three orgasms, one after another. She imagined everything she had never imagined before, and she gave herself to all that was most base and most pure.

Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or--such is the pleasure they experience--they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them.

I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body

Sometimes, you get no second chance and that its best to accept the gifts the world offers you.

Believe that if Allah wants you to know something, someone will tell you.

He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

There must be a language that doesn't depend on words, the boy thought… He was learning lots of new things. Some of them were things that he had already experienced, and weren't really new, but that he had never perceived before. And he hadn't perceived them because he had become accustomed to them…

When you really want something, the universe always conspires in your favor.

No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.

Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.

She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.

As you go in, on the first floor, the back window

I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul with a visible part called the body.

The aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love.