Paulo Coelho Order Quotations

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It's something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.

Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.

In order to live fully, it is necessary to be in constant movement, only then can each day be different from the last.

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.

You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.

Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself.

Love is the force that brings us back together, in order to condense the experience dispersed in many lives and many parts of the world.

God is here, right now, at our side. We can see him in this mist, in the ground we're walking on, even in my shoes. His angels keep watch while we sleep and help us in our work. In order to find God, you have only to look around.

Lord, protect our decisions, because making Decision is a way of praying. Give us the courage after our doubts, to be able to choose between one road and another. May our YES always be a YES and our NO always be a NO. Once we have chosen our road, may we never look back nor allow our soul to be eaten away by remorse. And in order for this to be possible.

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.

Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.

He celebrates yesterday's victory in order to gain more strength for tomorrow's battle.

He is also a victim of some injustice; he usually tries to be alone, in order to show his pain to others.

A person who goes in search of God is wasting his time. he can walk a thousand roads and join many religions and sects- but he'll never find God that way. God is here, right now, at our side. In order to find God, you have to only to look around.

You must find your treasure in order to make sense of everything you discovered on the path.

It is necessary to be humble in order to learn.

We can also allow our Soulmate to pass us by,without accepting him or her,or even noticing. Then we will need another incarnation in order to find that Soulmate. And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.

Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.

In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong.

No one ever loses anyone. We are all one soul that needs to continue growing and developing in order for the world to carry on and for us all to meet once again.

In order to dominate the soul you must also learn to dominate the body. And in order to dominate the body you cannot fear pain.

We must struggle for our dreams, but when certain paths prove impossible, it would be best to save our energies in order to travel other roads.

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love.

It is not necessary to move mountains in order to prove one's faith.

We can never found the soul, just as we can never wound God, but we become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched, even when we have everything we need in order to be happy.

Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous.

We don't always choose the best solution but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and decent in order to do honor not to the walls or the doors or the windows but to the empty space inside, the space where we worship and venerate what is dearest and most important to us.

The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far...

This miracle is in the small things of daily life; we must live in the understanding that at every moment there is a way out of each problem, the way of finding that which is missing, the right clue to the decision which must be taken in order to change our entire future.

I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up with them.

I needed to talk about my real personal history, in order to become free of it.

Love rules, but no one knows where it has its throne; in order to know that secret place, you must first submit to Love.

Anything that makes us forget who we are and what we want; that way we can work in order to produce, reproduce, and earn money.