Top 2109 Quotes & Sayings by Paulo Coelho - Page 4

Your decision to walk creates the path ahead

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.

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

The best way to be original is to be yourself.

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

Miracles only happen if you believe in miracles.

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

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

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.

Live to please the others, and everyone will love you, except yourself.

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.

It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility.

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.

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

Stop being who you were and become who you are.

The pain of yesterday is the strength of today.

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

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

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.

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

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

If you live your life fully, you will die only once. But if you are scared, fear will kill you day after day

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.

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.

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.

Start using your wings; they need some exercise.

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

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.

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

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

If you want to be faithful to someone, start by being faithful to yourself.

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

Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because don't know what to do with it.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

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

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

Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

Love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

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

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

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

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

We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people.

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

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

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

Don't forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy Skies.

we can harness the energy of the winds, the seas, the sun . But the day man learns to harness the energy of love, that will be as important as the discovery of fire.

The world we live in will be either better or worse depending on whether we become better or worse.

You don't need to explain your dreams. They belong to you.

If there is suffering, then it's best to accept it, because it won't go away just because you pretend it's not there. If there is joy, then it's best to accept that too, even though you're afraid it might end one day.

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