Popular Paulo Coelho's Quotes And Sayings

Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.

Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority.

Dreamers can't be tamed.

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true.

Change. But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed

Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other.

Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving. Life is the train, not the station.

Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.

Don't forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy Skies.

What makes people weak? Their need for validation and recognition, their need to feel important. Don't get caught in this trap.

You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly

Be proud of your scars. They remind you that you have the will to live.

One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.

If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.

Perfect people don't drink, don't fight, don't lie, don't make mistakes and...don't exist

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near

Each morning brings a hidden blessing; a blessing which is unique to that day, and which cannot be kept or re-used. If we do not use this miracle today, it will be lost.

Don't say maybe if you want to say no.

Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.

If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination.

The young all have the same dream: to save the world. Some quickly forget this dream, convinced that there are more important things to do, like having a family, earning money, traveling, and learning a foreign language. Others, though, decide that it really is possible to make a difference in society and to shape the world we will hand on to future generations.

Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere

What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Trust and start walking. We are not alone in the dark, our path will unfold as we move.

Never save the best for later. You don't know what tomorrow holds.

By changing the way you do routine things you allow a new man to grow inside you.

Fight for your dreams, and your dreams will fight for you.

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.

We don't need to explain our love. We only need to show it.

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

If you don't care about what people think, you already passed the first step of success.

Your decision to walk creates the path ahead

I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter.

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

Say "NO" without guilt. Say "YES" without fear.

To believe in your choice you don't need to prove that other people's choices are wrong.

Life is not about good answers, it is about interesting questions.

Why is patience so important?" "Because it makes us pay attention.

If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

Start doing what you want to do, and everything else will be revealed to you.

The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.

Imagine a new story for your life and start living it.

A wise person is full of questions. A dull person is full of answers.

Tolerance and compassion are qualities of fearless people.

May love fill your heart, compassion guide your mind, faith rule your soul.

Hold the hand of the child within you. For this child, nothing is impossible.

The pain of yesterday is the strength of today.

I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who silently fulfil the role life has given them. I want to be able to do this because the most important things, those that shape our existence, are precisely the ones that never show their faces.

You are your own best friend. Never ever, put yourself down.

Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come back. Remember that there was a time when you could live without that thing or that person - nothing is irreplaceable, a habit is not a need.

Love is joy. Don't convince yourself that suffering is a part of it.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule. Never lie to yourself.

If I had to give you one piece of advice, it would be this: don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do. Seek out people who aren’t afraid of making mistakes and who, therefore, do make mistakes. Because of that, their work often isn’t recognized, but they are precisely the kind of people who change the world and, after many mistakes, do something that will transform their own community completely.

He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Hurry up: your dreams are waiting for you, but they will not wait forever

Impossible is just an opinion.

the reward of our work is not what we get, but what we become

To succeed in life, you must have the courage to be hated.

That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.

Whoever wishes to go down a long path, must learn that the first lesson is to overcome early disappointments.

To teach is to show what is possible; to learn is to make yourself possible.

An enthusiastic heart finds opportunities everywhere.

We will always meet rivals in everything we do, but the most dangerous are those we believe to be our friends.

Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.

Listen to your heart. It knows everything.

No, I'm not mistaken. I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end. You are worth it.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

The best way to live a miserable life is to pay attention to what other people are saying about you.

In order to arrive you must follow the signs. God inscribed on the world the path that each man must follow. It is just a matter of reading the inscription He wrote for you.

To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be.

We are here because we are made by God, we will return to God. So people who think that they are something, they are totally wrong. And this is the most beautiful thing in life, it is that we don't own anything. So, everything is ours in the sense that we have the world to explore and not things to carry, a burden to carry.

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.

Life is the train and not the station.

You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don't feel guilty and accept the blessings.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.

Our soul is governed by four invisible forces: love, death, power and time.

Tears are words that need to be written.

God's decisions are always mysterious, but they are always in our favour.

Each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life.

How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.

When we postpone the harvest, the fruit rots, but when we postpone our problems, they keep on growing.

And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Many times the wrong train took me to the right place.

Changes happen when we go against everything we're used to doing.

Today don't beg, don't ask, just thank God in silence for all the blessings in your life.