Top 2109 Quotes & Sayings by Paulo Coelho - Page 35

Travel is not about money, it's about courage.

Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine.

No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.

Then she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain - which started a fraction of a second later - was typical of the Earth. Ah, that Earth pain - unique, unmistakable.

Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success

As so often in life, things are not always what it seems.

I made some mistakes, but I wasn’t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do.

It's better to live cherishing a dream than face the possibilty that it might all come to nothing.

If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith.

A warrior never gives in to fear when he is searching for what he needs. Without love, he is nothing.

Only when l know, the truth will set me free!

Every new book is a challenge. I could, of course, have stopped many years ago if it was only for money. But no, it is about building bridges among cultures, different cultures... When you want someone to understand something that is not forcefully in your culture, you use stories.

That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you.

Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible.

We never lose our loved ones. The accompany us; they don't disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.

She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault of that insecure little boy, who had given up after the first attempt.

As long as you still have one bridge left, nothing is lost. But from the moment that you cannot even understand the storytelling or the music of other cultures anymore, then we become strangers to each other and the situation will become very complicated.

Love is beyond time or rather love is both time and space but all focused on one single constantly evolving point-the Aleph.

Faith as tiny as a grain of sand allows us to move mountains.

I like to be challenged with language, so I start to do texts for my blogs that people can download, can spread. There is no commercial interest behind it. It's only for fun, like doing something that you really enjoy to do. I have texts that I write specifically for the internet and I put them there. I am interested in how readers also respond to the texts that I write to them.

If you go around promising what you do not yet have, you will lose the will to achieve it.

Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content - not necessarily that which makes others content.

A Warrior of Light needs love. Love and affection are part of his nature. He makes use of solitude, but is not used by it.

I kissed him hard. The few people in the bar must have been thinking that all they were seeing was just a kiss. They didn't know that this kiss stood for my whole life - and his life, as well. The life of anyone who has waited, dreamed, and searched for their true path. The moment of that kiss contained every happy moment I had ever lived.

Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.

I don’t believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even dream of.

As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.

We all, at some point, grow old and acquire other qualities, and these can always be turned to good advantage.

If you really want to dream, be fully awake.

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery.

True love is an act of total surrender.

I am living here and now. The blessing of my life is that I am totally concentrating on the present moment. And I want to be because there is nothing but the present moment.

Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death.

I think it is a problem of our society that we don't enjoy (ourselves.) We have these values, like, you have to be rich, you have to get a diploma, you have to work hard, otherwise you are useless, you are nothing but a pariah. And the book asks, 'Is it true? This is what my mom told me, but is it true?

Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.

The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.

For many years I was trying to find answers only through books but then I realized that basically, life is about experience and the thing that you have to do is experience life instead of only reading about it. Reading is very important, but it's not enough. After reading, you have to take some decisions in your hands and move forward and be the human being that you are, and then going and meeting people and work.

People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my readers and interact with my readers. It is a way that they can voice their opinion.

To dream is not enough, you have to fulfill your dream.

Each human being has his own sexual profile, and should exercise it without guilt - provided he does not oblige others to exercise it with him.

All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect.

Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world.

I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.

Love is only a word, until we decide to let it possess us with all its force. Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning. Don't give up. Remember, it's always the last key on the key ring that opens the door.

A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.

Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt.

The only trap I must beware not to fall into, is to think that each day is the same as the next. In fact, each morning brings with it a hidden miracle, and we must pay attention to this miracle.

Not everyone can see his dreams come true in the same way.

What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.

Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: "you don't have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality."

There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.

When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long for me to write this book?" Because my dream, since I was 10 years old, was to be a writer. I said, I have to revisit my life using a metaphor, and the metaphor was basically this boy that has a dream and has to go far away to realize that his dream is close to him.

Love doesn't need to be understood, it needs to be demonstrated

You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them.

You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other type was Hemingway who celebrated life and also wrote a masterpiece.

I don't choose. Normally it's the book that chooses me.

I write because I need to share my thoughts with the audience.

You need to change yourself. The moment that you change yourself it is a gigantic step. And this is what I do. The book is much more important than the writer.