Paulo Coelho Important Quotations

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

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

What makes people weak? Their need for validation and recognition, their need to feel important. Don't get caught in this trap.

It's important though to distinguish between religion and spirituality.

They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to have a degree. And thus the world was deprived of some excellent gardeners, bakers, antique dealers, sculptors, and writers.

There is no time to leave important words unsaid.

When mouths close, it’s because there’s something important to be said.

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.

Walking is almost as important as breathing, for me.

Every human being has inside them something more important than him or herself - his or her Gift.

Certain things are so important that they need to be discovered alone.

The search for happiness is more important than the need for pain.

It is important never to relax, however far you have come.

You can choose between being a victim of destiny or an adventurer who is fighting for something important.

Tragedies do happen. We can discover the reason, blame others, imagine how different our lives would be had they not occurred. But none of that is important: they did occur, and so be it. From there onward we must put aside the fear that they awoke in us and begin to rebuild

When we are high up, everything looks very small. Our glories and our sadnesses cease to be important. We have left whatever we won or lost down below. From the top of a mountain you can see how large the world is and how wide the horizon.

We still did not answer the questions that are important to us

When you are moving toward an objective," said Petrus, "it is very important to pay attention to the road. It is the road that teaches us the best way to get there, and the road enriches us as we walk its length.

Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to give up all the other important things.

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it

I learned the most important lesson of my life: that the extraordinary is not the birthright of a chosen and privileged few, but of all people, even the humblest. That is my one certainty: we are all the manifestation of the divinity of God.

Everybody has to share something. This is one of the most important laws of the human condition, is the necessity to share. This is the task of the writer - but not only of a writer, of every human being - it is to share something that he or she has.

The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.

Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love.

I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who silently fulfil the role life has given them. I want to be able to do this because the most important things, those that shape our existence, are precisely the ones that never show their faces.

I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.

I have won important things for myself, but I'm going to destroy them, because I tell myself they have lost their meaning. I know that is not true. I know they are important, and that if I destroy them, I'll be destroying myself, as well.

Believing that power is much more important than money and that money is much more important than happiness.

We must study things we will never use, but which someone told us were important to know.

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

Why is patience so important?" "Because it makes us pay attention.