Paulo Coelho People Quotations

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

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

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it.

This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it's easy to establish a dialogue.

It's not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

The universe stands aside for those people who know where they are going...

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of. It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

By sharing something, I realized that I'm not alone, that there are a lot of people that share with me the same preoccupations, the same ideas, the same ideals, and the same quest for a meaning for this life.

Even if you follow other people's advice and model successful people and their blueprints, you will still fail if you don't have confidence in yourself. Everything - absolutely everything - starts with you.

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

To believe in your choice you don't need to prove that other people's choices are wrong.

The extraordinary lies in the path of ordinary people.

We must get rid of the idea of fulfilling what people expect us to do, and start to do what we expect from our lives.

I don't get anywhere meditating," she said. "I see people sitting there with their eyes closed, a smile on their lips or else grave-faced and arrogant, concentrating on absolutely nothing, convinced that they're in touch with God or with the Goddess. So instead, let's listen to some music together.

We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don’t waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be.

Love is always the same but people change.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

Now go back and meet all those people who you think know everything. Convince yourself that they're right, because we all know everything, it's merely a question of believing.

Many people in this world are merely playing a role, unaware that there is an Invisible Hand guiding them.

Charisma- the divine force that manifests itself in men and women. The supernatural power we don't need to show to anyone because everyone can see it, even usually insensitive people. But it only happens when we're naked, when we die to the world and are reborn to ourselves.

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

As soon as people decide to confront a problem, they realize that they are far more capable than they thought they were.

People, since the beginning of time, have always tried to understand the universe through love.

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

Whenever a religion tightens it's rules, a significant number of people break away and go in search of more freedom in their search for spiritual contact.

That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.

music isn't just something that comforts or distracts us, it goes beyond that - it's an ideology. you can judge people by the kind of music they listen to.

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

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.

There are no risk in Love, as you'll find out for yourself. People have been searching for and finding each other for thousands of years. Suddenly, he realised that the might be wrong. There was always a risk, a single risk: that one person might meet with more thatn one Soulmate in the same incarnation...

Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horros in other people's lives as if they were genuinely concerned to help them, but the truth was that they took pleasure in the suffering of others, because that made them believe they were happy and that life had been generous with them

No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded

You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.

The happier people can be, the unhappier they are.

Possibly. Basically,everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went through, and they react completely differently. We looked for the easiest way out: a separate reality.

But other people also 'invite' us to behave like victims, when they complain about the unfairness of life, for example, and ask us to agree, to offer advice, to participate. Be careful. When you join in that game you always end up losing.

I kissed him hard. The few people in the bar must have been thinking that all they were seeing was just a kiss. They didn't know that this kiss stood for my whole life - and his life, as well. The life of anyone who has waited, dreamed, and searched for their true path. The moment of that kiss contained every happy moment I had ever lived.

The celebrity syndrome. When people forget who they are and start to believe what other people say about them.

I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.

What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars.

People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.

At this moment, many people have stopped living. They do not become angry, nor cry out; they merely wait for time to pass. They did not accept the challenges of life, so life no longer challenges them

I am always amazed that so many people are concerned with wanting to be what they are not;What is the point of making yourself look ridiculous? You don't always have to pretend to be strong,there is no need to prove all the time that everything is going well,you shouldn't be concerned about what other people are thinking. Cry if you need to,it's good to cry out all your tears,because only then you will be able to smile again...

People only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they'll get it.

In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die? No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.

..there is nothing worse than the feeling that no one cares whether we exist or not, that no one is interested in what we have to say about life, and that the world can continue turning without our awkward presence. I began to imagine how many millions of people were, at that moment, feeling utterly useless and wretched—however rich, charming, and delightful they might be—because they were alone that night, as they were yesterday, and as they might well be tomorrow.

I like to be challenged with language, so I start to do texts for my blogs that people can download, can spread. There is no commercial interest behind it. It's only for fun, like doing something that you really enjoy to do. I have texts that I write specifically for the internet and I put them there. I am interested in how readers also respond to the texts that I write to them.

I see is that there are many people who destroy their marriages because of one-night stands with someone else. And as the French say, "C'est ne pas grave." It's not something easy to swallow, but at the same time, it does not justify you to end a long-lasting relationship because something happened.

Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside.

The Road to Santiago is the road of ordinary people.

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.

Face your path with courage, don't be scared of people's criticism. And, above all, don't let yourself get paralyzed by your own criticism.

People make a lot of effort not to remember, not to accept their immense magical potential.

Tell your story: yes, tell your story! Give your example. Tell everyone that it's possible, and other people will then have the courage to face their own mountains.

There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.

He has learned that God uses solitude to teach us how to live with other people.

He is also wary of people who think they know the path.

A Warrior trusts other people because, first and foremost, he trusts himself.

He too shares his world with the people he loves.

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.

People always arrive promptly at the places where they are expected.

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

Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem

Those who never take risks can only see other people's failures.

Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.

I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.

People are all crazy... but the craziest are the ones who never allow themselves to be crazy.

Don't think about what you’ll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it.

...in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other... People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.

Philosophy can't build bridges, but can encourage people to cross them.

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

Choose the mountain you want to climb: don't pay attention to what other people say, such as "that one's more beautiful" or "this one's easier". You'll be spending lots of energy and enthusiasm to reach your objective, so you're the only one responsible and you should be sure of what you're doing.

If everyone there just lived their lives and let others do the same, God would be in every moment, in every grain of mustard, in the fragment of cloud that is there and then gone the following moment. God was there and yet people believed they still had to go on looking, because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

The soul of the world is nourished by people's Happiness.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

If we resist the temptation to allow other people to define who we are, then we will gradually be able to let the sun inside our own soul shine forth.

One of many ways to be useful is to inspire people to forget some rules imposed by society. IMPORTANT rules are dictated by our hearts.

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.

and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.

Every human being should know two languages: the language of society and the language of signs. One serves to communicate with other people, the other serves to understand God's messages.

Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.

No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.

Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives.

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.

There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.

It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.

People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.

A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest.

I am surprised how difficult for people is to say "I love you". They only say the three magic words when they are sure they will hear "I love you too" back. C'mon! Spread the energy of love without expecting anything! Cowards are incapable of expressing love; it is the prerogative of the brave

Intelligent people discuss ideas. Fools discuss how people should behave.

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when that person looks back – and at some point everyone looks back – she will hear her heart saying, “What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of losing those talents. So this is your heritage; the certainty that you wasted your life.

The world only gets better because people risk something to make it better. Thanks Egyptians

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.

The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there.