Top 2109 Quotes & Sayings by Paulo Coelho - Page 30

A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent.

You have always fought against your dreams, and 'I want' has never even shown its face. It was always drowned out by 'I must' or 'I hope' or 'I need...'

The true lover realizes that freedom is needed for loyalty to blossom.

People read a lot of stories about witches, fairies, paranormals, and children possessed by evil spirits. They go to films showing rituals featuring pentagrams, swords, and invocations. That's fine, people need to give free reign to their imagination and to go through certain stages. Anyone who gets through those stages without being deceived will eventually get in touch with the Tradition.

He also knows the power of word.

Everything moves, and everything moves to a rhythm. And everything that moves to a rhythm creates a sound. At this moment, the same thing is happening here and everywhere else in the world.

Instead of using your thoughts, become your thoughts

to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.

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.

It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge.

Love is always the same but people change.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

I learned that the search for God is a Dark Night, that Faith is a Dark Night. And that’s hardly a surprise really, because for us each day is a dark night. None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, and yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

Every second of the search is an encounter with God. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous...I've discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve.

The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time. The second indication of the death of our dreams is certainty. The third indication that our dreams are dead is peace.

Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive a mortal blow. The perfect crime--for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found.

In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change.

People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me.

Yes, my mind was wandering. I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart someone with whom I could spend a little time without being afraid that i would lose him the next day. With that reassurance, the time would pass more slowly. We could be silent for a while because we'd know we had the rest of our lives together for conversation. I wouldn't have to worry about serious matters, about difficult decisions and hard words.

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

I never lose when I love. I only lose when I'm afraid to

The True Lover is the one who realizes that Loyalty must go hand in hand with Freedom.

A warrior knows that the farthest-flung star in the Universe reveals itself in the things around him.

What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.

A Warrior does not go into battle without knowing the limitations of his ally.

When it comes to treachery, he is implacable.

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

He rarely knows the result of a battle when the battle is over.

Now go back and meet all those people who you think know everything. Convince yourself that they're right, because we all know everything, it's merely a question of believing.

Defeat exists but not suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle, he is improving the skill with which he wields a sword. He will be able to fight more skilfullly next time.

Never stop dreaming and follow the omens.

Not knowing whether to wait or to forget is the worst kind of suffering.

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

He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence.

At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still, and the Soul of the World surged within him. When he looked into her dark eyes, and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and silence, he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke — the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. Something that exerted the same force whenever two pairs of eyes met, as had theirs here at the well.

And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.

Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.

I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.

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.

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.

May we understand that fear of failure is worse than failure itself

A warrior of light knows that certain impossible battles are worth fighting and so he/she is not afraid of being disappointed, knowing the power of his/her love.

... keep practicing. After a great deal of practice, we no longer think about all the necessary movements we must make; they become part of our existence. Before reaching that stage, however, you must practice and repeat. And if that's not enough, you must practice and repeat some more.

There is always a gap between intention and action.

Everyone when they are young knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.

I free myself from hatred through forgiveness and love.

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

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

Whenever a religion tightens it's rules, a significant number of people break away and go in search of more freedom in their search for spiritual contact.

To one who knocks, the door will open.

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.

They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it.

Take these," said the old man, holding out a white stone and a black stone that had been embedded at the center of the breastplate. "They are called Urim and Thummim. The black signifies 'yes,' and the white 'no.' When you are unable to read the omens, they will help you to do so. Always ask an objective question.

We women, when we're searching for a meaning to our lives or for the path of knowledge, always identify with one of four classic archetypes.

Only a man who is happy can create happiness in others.

I only invoked what you already knew.

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.

They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.