Paulo Coelho Soul Quotations

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me.

I like to use the term alchemy, which is the soul of the world, or those of Jung's collective unconscious. You connect with a space where everything is.

Before a dream is realized the soul of the world tests everything that was learned along the way.

Our souls are prisoners of the terror of death, and the day is beautiful.

The soul loves all things beautiful and deep.

Bodies always understand each other, even when the souls do not.

I only write to understand myself better... I don't try to show how intelligent or how cultivated I am, I just try to share my soul. Sharing is part of life.

If there hadn't been a sixth day, man would not exist; copper would always be copper; and lead just lead. It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only.

Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams.

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.

You came so that you could learn about your dreams," said the old woman. "And dreams are the language of God. When he speaks in our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand.

fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.

Don't think about what you've left behind... everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.

Problems of the heart always bruised the soul.

Christ surrounded himself with beggars, prostitutes, tax-collectors and fishermen. ... what he meant by this was that the divine spark is in every soul and is never extinguished ...

The boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and saw that it was part of the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles.

He's seeing my soul, my fears, my fragility, my inability to deal with a world which i pretend to master, but about which I know nothing

Body and soul need new challenges.

Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive . and it has a soul. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us.

We all harbour a great sadness in our soul

Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.

I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body

Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World.

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.

Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul

May love fill your heart, compassion guide your mind, faith rule your soul.

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.

Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see.

I'm proud of the scars in my soul. They remind me that I have an intense life.

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

When we both experienced the love that consumes, we shared in the Absolute. The Absolute shows each of us who we really are; it is an enormous web of cause and effect, where every small gesture made by one person affects the life of someone else. This morning, that slice of the Absolute was still very much alive in my soul. I was seeing not only you but everything there is in the world, unlimited by space or time.

Your eyes show the strength of your soul.

But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.

A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.

We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.

Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.

We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us.

I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.

Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.

If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.

Sometimes, we need to be strangers to ourselves. Then the hidden light in our soul will illuminate what we need to see.

Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul. Because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take.

My smile is my way of saying: "You can destroy my body, but not my soul.

Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.

When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask God to give me the courage to mercilessly pluck it out.

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.

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...

A man only has a soul to be won or lost.

Visit your soul; don't visit your past.

A life is never useless. Each soul that came down to Earth is here for a reason.

Our soul is governed by four invisible forces: love, death, power and time.

Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field.

When we marry, we are authorized to take possession of the other person, body and soul.

What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace

The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirror, they also reflect the person looking into them.

Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

Don't fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul.