Paulo Coelho Life Quotations

Tears are words that need to be written.

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.

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.

If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

I still pray but it's something automatic, and I'm not even sure I still believe in it... Because I've suffered, and God didn't listen to my prayers. because many times in my life I have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being

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

We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, G-d gives us the sun-and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that w

It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

No matter how many detours and adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the same compass point. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting on a star that indicated the location of the oasis.

Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist; that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment.

It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us.

But that moment exists - a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles.

If 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.

A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.

Sak, pain, love are limited human experiences. and only those who know their own frontiers, those knows the life, the rest is just passing time...

My turning point was my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. It was then that I, who had dedicated most of my life to penetrate the 'secrets' of the universe, realized that there are no secrets. Life is and will always be a mystery.

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.

Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence.

Whenever we need to make a very important decision it is best to trust our instincts, because reason usually tries to remove us from our dream, saying that the time is not yet right. Reason is afraid of defeat, but intuition enjoys life and its challenges.

Treat every challenge as a lesson, every mistake you make as a blessing and move on.

The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.

Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or--such is the pleasure they experience--they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them.

In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.

The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love.

The universe conspires to help the dreamer

We must at all costs avoid saying no because people prefer those who say yes, and this allows us to survive in hostile territory.

Life becomes interesting for the possibility to fulfill a dream.

It is not the life that matters, but the journey.

Seek to live,remembrance is for the old.

The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. ” Chantal

Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television.

Believing that you can be sure of everything you've achieved.

Assuming that women don't like football and that men aren't intersted in home decorating and cooking.

Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen.

Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate.

Being equally convinced that aggression and rudeness are synonymous with having a "powerful personality."

Being afraid of having an endoscopy (if you're a man) and giving birth (if you're a woman).

And with the passing years, what had once seemed like a miracle or the luckiest of chances and which he had always promised himself he would never become enslaved by, has gradually become his sole reason to go on living.

Life is like Twitter: nobody wants to sign off.

Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding.

Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration.

A disciple...can never imitate his guide's steps. You have your own way of living your life, of dealing with problems, and of winning. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

You don't seem mad at all,' she said. But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?

we’re allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us

We live in a vale of tears...We can have all the dreams we like, but life is hard, implacable, sad.

Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.

Life is the train and not the station.

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.

I don't make plans. I live my life on a daily basis.

A warrior of light knows that in the silence of his heart he will hear an order that will guide him.

Anyone who loves needs to know both how to lose himself and how to find himself.

Everything is allowed, except interrupting a manifestation of love.

The light of love drives away the darkness of guilt.

The warrior of light listens to what his opponent has to say. He only fights if absolutely necessary.

God judges a tree by its fruits and not by its roots.

A threat need not provoke a response if it is not taken up.

The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others.

True love does not consist in trying to correct others, but in feeling joy that things are better than we expected.

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

Everything new troubles us. Life catches us unawares and obliges us to journey towards the unknown, even when we do not want to, even when we do not need to.

Each person is different and each one will reach God by his or her own path.

To attain his dream, the warrior of light needs a strong will and an enormous capacity for acceptance.

Each moment spent searching is also a moment spent finding.

Any man who, having planted a vineyard, has not yet reaped the benefits should do so at once, so that he does not die in the struggle and leave it for another to enjoy.

The Road to Santiago is the road of ordinary people.

All the world needs are examples of people capable of living out their dreams and fighting for their ideas.

Emotions are wild horses.

The great virtue of those who seek the spiritual path is courage.

The warrior of light plunges unhesitatingly into the river of passions always flowing through his life.

The pain barrier was not a barrier for her; she could go beyond it.

In reality things reveal nothing to us. It is people who, by looking into at things, discover a way of penetrating the Soul of the World.

The warrior of Light perseveres in his desire, but knows he must wait for the best moment.

The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

Before there was a proper understanding and a sense of God's presence, the idea that everything would one day end was utterly desolating.

When we have great treasures before us, we can never see them.

The search can be as interesting as the fear you feel, as long as you overcome that fear.