Paulo Coelho Quotes

“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.”

— Paulo Coelho

“You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.”

— Paulo Coelho

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

— Paulo Coelho

Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

Nothing in this world happens by chance

— Paulo Coelho

“Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with.”

— Paulo Coelho

A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose;
A time to lose; A time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate;
A time of war, and a time of peace

— Paulo Coelho

“Warriors of light are not perfect.Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.”

— Paulo Coelho

“If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness.”

— Paulo Coelho

Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.

— Paulo Coelho

“Because we managed to keep our heart open, despite the pain.
Because we realized that the person who left us did not take the sun with them or leave darkness in their place.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them”

— Paulo Coelho

“To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.”

— Paulo Coelho

“An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.”

— Paulo Coelho

“The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other”

— Paulo Coelho

Time does not pass, it merely changes.

— Paulo Coelho

“True love, is the love that seduces and will never allow itself to be seduced.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Creatures like the sheep, that are used to traveling, know about moving on.”

— Paulo Coelho

“The completion is always more difficult that the beginning”

— Paulo Coelho

“You don't have to explain your dreams, they belong to you.”

— Paulo Coelho

Let's go back to the train station,' she said. 'Or,
rather, let's come back to this room, to the day when we sat here together for the first time
and you recognised that I existed and gave me a gift. That was your first attempt to enter my
soul, and you weren't sure whether or not you were welcome. But, as you say in your story,
human beings were
once divided and now seek the embrace that will reunite them. That is our instinct. But it is
also our reason for putting
up with all the difficulties we meet in that search.I want you to look at me, but I want you to take care
that I don't notice. Initial desire is important because it is hidden, forbidden, not permitted.
You don't know whether you are looking at your lost half or not; she doesn't know either,
but something is drawing you together, and you must believe that it is true you are each
other's other half

— Paulo Coelho

One has only to accept a simple fact: Love-of God and of others-shows us the way. Our defects, our dangerous depths, our suppressed hatreds, our moments of weakness and desperation-all are unimportant. If what we want to do is heal ourselves first, so that then we can go in search of our dreams, we will never reach paradise. If, on the other hand, 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. Little by little, our defects will disappear, because one who is happy can look at the world only with love-the force that regenerates everything that exists in the Universe.

— Paulo Coelho

“Warriors of the Light always have a certain gleam in their eyes. They are of this world. They are part of the lives of other people and they set out on their journey with no saddlebags and no sandals. They are often cowardly. They do not always make the right decisions. They suffer over the most trivial things; they have mean thoughts and sometimes believe they are incapable of growing. They frequently deem themselves unworthy of any blessing or miracle. They are not always quite sure of what they are doing here. They spend many sleepless nights, believing that their lives have no meaning. That is why they are Warriors of the Light. Because they make mistakes, because they ask themselves questions, because they are looking for a reason they are sure to find it.”

— Paulo Coelho

“This is not right, and we must recondition the brain so that each sexual experience is unique, just as each loving experience is unique.”

— Paulo Coelho

“But I'm afraid that it would be all be a disappointment, so I prefer just to dream about it.”

— Paulo Coelho

“We should never judge people without first learning to hear and to respect them.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Shugendo means: "the way of the art of accumulating experience" - he replied, revealing that his interests go beyond the variety of insects in the region - By disciplining one's body to accept everything nature has to offer; in this way you will also educate your soul for that which God has to offer.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World”

— Paulo Coelho

“I am beautiful and beauty is my reason for living.”

— Paulo Coelho

“We, people's hearts, seldom say much about those treasures, because people no longer want to go in search of them. We speak of them only to children. Later, we simply let life proceed, in its own direction, towards it's own fate. But, unfortunately, very few follow the path laid out for them-the path to their Personal Legends, and to happiness. Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place. So, we, their hearts, speak more and more softly. We never stop speaking out, but we begin to hope that our words won't be heard: we don't want people to suffer because they don't follow their hearts.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Never stop dreaming, the old king had said.”

— Paulo Coelho

“When I came here, diagnosed as a schizophrenic, you spent days, months, talking to me and treating me as a human being. I was getting used to the life I'd decided to lead, to the other reality I'd created, but you wouldn't let me. I hated you, and now I love you.”

— Paulo Coelho

When you left, I somehow couldn't be myself,

— Paulo Coelho

“Sufism is the spiritual tradition of the dervishes. Its teachers never strive to show how wise they are, and their disciples go into a trance by performing a kind of whirling dance.”

— Paulo Coelho

“The people through which the Tradition of the Sun spoke were people just like anyone else, and who, one morning or one evening, looked at the world and felt the presence of something greater. They had unwittingly plunged into an unknown sea, and, for the most part, they did not do so again.
Everyone, at least once in each incarnation, possessed the secret of the Universe.”

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

“Making mistakes is a way of taking action.”

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

“I'm afraid of taking steps that are not on the map, but by taking those steps despite my fears, I have a much more interesting life.”

— Paulo Coelho

“We are all different, and should do what we can do te remain so.”

— Paulo Coelho

“The Warrior of the Light pays attention to small things because they can severely hamper him.”

— Paulo Coelho

“He knows that it is impossible to live in a state of complete relaxation.”

— Paulo Coelho

We all harbour a great sadness in our soul

— Paulo Coelho

You can only learn when you teach.

— Paulo Coelho

We hereby declare the end to the wall dividing the sacred from the profane: from now on, all is sacred.

— Paulo Coelho

“He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom.”

— Paulo Coelho

“An angel and a devil are always beside us, and the one we listen to more will prevail. This confrontation is what makes life so magical because you are always challenged by the circumstances - we are good and evil depending on how we act”

— Paulo Coelho

“A good, true, intense love is not complete without madness.”

— Paulo Coelho

“The power of beauty:what must the world be like for ugly women?”

— Paulo Coelho