Popular Paulo Coelho's Quotes And Sayings

Sometimes we have only ten minutes to be with the love of our life and thousands of hours to spend thinking about them.

The soul of the world is nourished by people's Happiness.

one cannot judge the beauty of a path merely by looking at its entrance.

Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.

Enjoy your magic moment today. As it will not be here tomorrow.

How does light enter a house? If the windows are open. How does light enter a human? If the door of love is open.

If I had to give you one piece of advice it would be this: don't be intimidated by other people's opinions.

Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That's all you need.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible, the fear of failure. Never forget your personal legend. Your silent heart will guide you. Be silent now. It is the possibility of a dream that makes life interesting. You can choose between being a victim of destiny or an adventurer who is fighting for something important.

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

Love creates bridges where it would seem they were impossible.

Live the life you always wanted to live. Avoid criticizing others and concentrate on fulfilling your dreams.

Courage is the first spiritual quality that you need to have.

Miracles only happen if you believe in miracles.

Don't give up. Normally it is the last key on the ring which opens the door.

We lose many things simply out of our fear of losing them.

Ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.

Find someone who makes you smile, because it only takes a smile to make a day better

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

Stay close to those who sing, tell stories, and enjoy life, and whose eyes sparkle with happiness. Because happiness is contagious and will always manage to find a solution, whereas logic can find only an explanation for the mistake made.

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you’re capable of far more than you imagined. You live in this vast body called the Universe, which contains all the solutions and all the problems. Visit your soul; don’t visit your past. The Universe goes through many mutations and carries the past with it. We call each of those mutations a ‘life,’ but just as the cells in your body change and yet you remain the same, so time does not pass, it merely changes.

At this moment, many people have stopped living. They do not become angry, nor cry out; they merely wait for time to pass. They did not accept the challenges of life, so life no longer challenges them

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

I carry with me many scars, but I also carry with me moments that would not have happened if I had not dared to go beyond my limits

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

Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity.

Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

The important thing is to keep the fire in your heart and be strong to overcome hard moments.

Certainly. But take this into consideration: of every ten problems we have, nine are created by our own selves - through guilt, self-punishment, self-pity. However, from time to time a great obstacle appears in our path, which was put there by God, and which is there for a reason. The reason is: to give us the opportunity to change everything, to move forwards.

A life without a cause is a life without effect.

If we don't face our fears, our fears will chase us forever.

The only way to save our dreams is by being generous with ourselves.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

No one can posses an afternoon of rain beating against the window, or the serenity of a sleeping child, or the magical moment when the waves break on the rocks. No one can posses the beautiful things of this Earth, but we can know them and love them. It is through such moments that God reveals himself to mankind.

Give yourself freedom to try out new things Don't be so set in your ways that you can't grow.

Go further than you planned. Ask for the moon: you will be surprised how often you get it

Everything in your life can change except ONE: your passion

simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them".

To the warriors of light, there is no such thing as impossible love. They don’t allow themselves to be intimidated by silence, or by rejection. They know that – behind the icy mask people wear – there is a heart of fire. That is why the warriors risk more than others. They tirelessly seek love – even if this means hearing, many times over, the word ‘no’, returning home defeated, feeling rejected in body and soul. Warriors don’t allow themselves to be discouraged. Without love, live has no meaning.

The only faults considered grave are the following: not respecting the rights of one's neighbor, letting oneself be paralyzed by fear, feeling guilty, thinking one does not deserve the good and bad which occurs in life, and being a coward.

Making mistakes is a way of taking action.

Every human being has a personal legend to be fulfilled, and this is our reason for being in the world. This personal legend manifests itself in our enthusiasm for the task.

if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests he did not create a single leaf the same as another.

Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.

The enemy is only a pretext to test our strength

The best way to serve God is by going in search of your own dreams. Only the happy can spread happiness.

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

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you're capable of far more than you imagined.

Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender.

If you don't fear, the Unknown will be KIND to you

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.

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.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

I don't see any reason why I should look for someone who never took the trouble to love me.

Sometimes it's what you don't say that counts.

The energy that many people call love, is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built.

Don't try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.

What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.

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

It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

The best way to be original is to be yourself.

There is only one sin - lack of love. Be brave, be capable of loving, even if love seems a terrible and treacherous thing. Find joy in love. Find joy in victory. Follow the dictates of your heart.

Boredom is not in the world, but in the way we see the world.

We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.

Everyone's looking for the perfect teacher, but although their teachings might be divine, teachers are all too human, and that's something people find hard to accept. Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself.

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

We must struggle for our dreams, but when certain paths prove impossible, it would be best to save our energies in order to travel other roads.

The beauty of truth: whether it is bad or good, it is liberating.

everyone knows how to love because we are all born with that gift.

Try to live with the same intensity as a child. He doesn't ask for explanations; he dives into each day as if it were a new adventure and, at night, sleeps tired and happy.

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.

Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs - but move on.

I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.

No one knows what is going to happen in the next few minutes, and yet people still go forward, because they have trust, because they have faith.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain.

Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.

The moment that he begins to walk along it, the warrior of the light recognizes the path.

It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.

A man is at his strongest when he is willing to accept his vulnerability

You may not be winning, but this doesn't mean you are losing

If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.

Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it.

Leave your comfortable life and go in search of your kingdom.

Choosing a path means having to miss out on others

Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.

Always remember the proverb: "This too shall pass." Your negative feelings won't last forever, there's a light at the end of every tunnel. It might not happen today or tomorrow, but you'll feel better eventually.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

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 we accept all that is wrong about us - and despite it, believe that we are deserving of a happy life - then we will have thrown open an immense window that will allow love to enter.

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.

Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.

Be the best, but get ready to be attacked. Only mediocrity is safe.

The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirror, they also reflect the person looking into them.

Every moment in life is an act of faith

Life is like the Internet: sometimes is almost impossible to connect.