Top 2109 Quotes & Sayings by Paulo Coelho - Page 32

Never asking a direct question, even though the other person can guess what it is you want to know.

Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible, and it manifests itself in the light that flows in our eyes.

A man only has a soul to be won or lost.

To each of man's ages the Lord gives its own anxieties.

...and I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be.

Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.

The only reason I don't throw myself into your arms, kiss you and make love with you now is that I lack the courage and am afraid of loving you.

Thats because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesnt teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.

No matter how you are feeling, get up every morning and prepare to let your light shine forth.

Despising anything that was easy to achieve because if no sacrifice was involved, it obviously isn't worth having.

Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul. On the other hand, when the sun appeared, the children would come out to play in the streets, and everyone was happy that it was such a lovely day, and then I would feel terrible, as if that display of exuberance in which i could not participate was somehow unfair.

If you say it was the "last" time, it might well turn out to be the last. What you meant was "the most recent time I was here".

The Warrior knows the value of persistence and of courage.

Time neither moves nor is stationary. Time changes.

One of Love's qualities--namely, Forgiveness.

If you are never alone you cannot know yourself. And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.

Only those who find life, find treasures.

The Warrior listens to the words of certain thinkers.

Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.

On some nights, he has nowhere to sleep, on others he suffers from insomnia. "That's just how it is," thinks the warrior. "I was the one who chose to walk this path."

He too shares his world with the people he loves.

Every road i traveled led back to you

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

Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested." The boy remembered an old proverb from his country. It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.

The warrior of the light has a destiny to fulfill.

When we are walking our chosen path, we walk elegantly, emanating light.

solitude is not absence of love, but its complement

He does not however postpone making decisions.

When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.

I cannot lose the one thing that keeps me alive : hope -

Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality.

Never apologize for being yourself.

No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you to seek out other writers but to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm.

The warrior of the Light sits around a fire with his companions.

Believing that art is either worth a fortune or worth nothing at all.

The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one.

Never talking to strangers. Saying nasty things about the neighbors.

The universe always helps us fight for our dreams, no matter how foolish they may be.

A Warrior knows when a battle is worth fighting.

A Warrior knows that his best teachers are the people whom he shares the battlefield.

He also knows the importance of intuition.

Break a pact. Accept forgiveness. Make a bet.

People never leave, we are always here in our past and future lives.

You cannot trust a person until you know where and how he lives

Respect those who grew up and learned alongside you. Respect those who taught you.

Often, during combat, the warrior of light receives blows that he was not expecting. And he realizes that, during a war, his enemy is bound to win some of the battles. When this happens, the warrior of light weeps bitter tears and rests in order to recover his energies a little. But he immediately resumes the battle for his dreams.

When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.

The Warrior knows about the "waterfall effect".

Our dreams are our own, and only we can know the effort required to keep them alive.

Perhaps love makes us grow old before our time and makes us young again when youth has passed.

The River adapts itself to whatever route prove possible, but the river never forgets its one objective: the sea. So fragile at its source, it gradually gathers the strength of the other rivers in encounters. And, after a certain point, its power is absolute.

The Warrior of the Light concentrates on the small miracles of daily life.

Instead of answering your question directly I shall quote from the Indian poet Tagore: “I slept and dreamt that life was joy/ I awoke and saw that life was service/I acted and behold, service was joy.” In fact, through my work I discover life, people, and everything which happens around us.

He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words.

It is the imperfect that astonishes and attracts us.

My aim is to understand love. I know how alive I felt when I was in love, and I know that everything I have now, however interesting it might seem, doesn't really excite me. But love is a terrible thing: I've seen my girlfriends suffer and I don't want the same thing to happen to me. [...] Although my aim is to understand love, and although I suffer to think of people to whom I gave my heart, I see that those who touched my heart failed to arouse my body, and that those who aroused my body failed to touch my heart.

You can just look at a mountain and get a connection with God, you don't have to understand the mountain to feel that.

Then all that is needed is a little daring, and his two lives become one.

Where there is loyalty, weapons are of no use.

He is also a victim of some injustice; he usually tries to be alone, in order to show his pain to others.