Paulo Coelho Life Quotations [Page 4]

The Good Fight is the one that we fight in the name of our dreams.

Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees

As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.

Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.

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

People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.

Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God.

No matter how you feel today, get up, dress up & show up

Only cowards hide behind silence.

Sometimes the warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once. 'There is a bridge that links what I do with what I would like to do,' he thinks. Slowly, his dreams take over his everyday life, and then he realises that he is ready for the thing he always wanted. Then all that is needed is a little daring, and his two lives become one.

I love you like a river that understands that it must learn to flow differently over waterfalls and to rest in the shallows. I love you because we are all born in the same place, at the same source, which keeps us provided with a constant supply of water. And so, when we feel weak, all we have to do is wait a little. The spring returns, and the winter snows melt and fill us with new energy.

For the Warrior of Light there is no such thing as an impossible love. He is not intimidated by silence, indifference or rejection. He knows that, behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire. Without love, he is nothing.

Love always triumphs over what we call death. That's why there's no need to grieve for our loved ones, because they continue to be loved and remain by our side.

The wise are wise only because they love.

Love simply is. ... Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.

It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.

There is only one way to learn. It's through action.

Follow your dreams, transform your life.

I am going to sit here in the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. And if you go away, I will follow you--until you tell me to go away. Then I'll leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life..

This is the present moment. Learn how to gobble it up without fear or guilt.

Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.

A life without a cause is a life without effect.

Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.

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.

The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.

If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.

Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.

To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.

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.

The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better." -- The Alchemist

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

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

Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.

She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.

Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction

I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.

All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step

There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

Dreams are the language of God.

Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.

of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.

making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

Sorrows do not last forever when we are journeying towards the thing we have always wanted.

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

Ever since time began, people have recognized their true Love by the light in their eyes.

Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.

God always offers us a second chance in life.

Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked. "Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.

Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.

People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

You are what you believe yourself to be.

Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

We pretend to be strong because we are weak.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

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.

If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.

Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That's all you need.

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

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

Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.

The ship is safest when it is in port, but that’s not what ships were built for.

We cannot all see the dreams in the same way.

Love will never separate a man from his personal legend.

The closer you get to your dream, the more your personal legend becomes your real reason for living.

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.

We can let the energy of love flow instead of placing it in a jar and leaving it aside.

We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are.

The moment of that kiss contained every happy moment I had ever lived.

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

The glory of the world is transitory, and we should not measure our lives by it, but by the choice we make to follow our personal legend, to believe in our utopias and to fight for our dreams.

Faith is difficult to conquer and requires daily battles if it is to be maintained.

Choosing one path means abandoning others - if you try to follow every possible path you will end up following none.

When there is no turning back, then we should concern ourselves only with the best way of going forward.

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

There is always a right moment to stop something.

It is necessary to run risks, to follow certain paths and to abandon others. No one can make a choice without feeling fear.

Love cannot exist in peace, it will always come accompanied by agonies, ecstasies, intense joys and profound sadnesses.

Anything a man does can bring him closer to the Supreme Wisdom, as long as he works with Love in his heart.

God is love, generosity and forgiveness; if we believe in this, we will never allow our weaknesses to paralyse us.

Making mistakes is a way of taking action.

The only way to save our dreams is by being generous with ourselves.

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.

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

A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The pain of defeat is bitter to him; he suffers at indifference and becomes desperate with loneliness. After all this has passed, he licks his wounds and begins everything anew. A warrior knows that war is made of many battles: he goes on

Finding something important in life does not mean that you must give up everything else.

A Warrior knows that a great dream is made up of many different things, just as the light from the sun is the sum of its millions of rays.

When we renounce our dreams, we find peace and enjoy a brief period of tranquillity, but the dead dreams begin to rot inside us and to infect the whole atmosphere in which we live. What we hoped to avoid in the Fight -disappointment and defeat- become the sole legacy of our cowardice.

Every man hath the right to doubt his task, and to forsake it from time to time; but what he must not do is forget it. Whoever doubteth not himself is unworthy -for in his unquestioning belief in his ability, he commiteth the sin of pride. Blessed are they who go through moments of indecision.

One can abandon one's personal legend for a time, as long as one does not forget about it entirely and returns to it as soon as possible.

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

Life is like the Internet: sometimes is almost impossible to connect.

But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.