Paulo Coelho Quotes

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844 Quotes for Your Inspirational Journey of Love, Life, and Fulfillment

“Dream and love are just words - until you decide to experience them”

“When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force.”

“the reward of our work is not what we get, but what we become”

“It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny”

“However difficult it may be to accept what happens to us, one must understand that moments such as this give us the possibility for radical change in our behavior.”

“The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions.”

“no project is completed until its objective has been achieved.”

“The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.”

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

“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.”

“The best way to weaken one's enemy was to get him to believe that you were on his side.”

“Every road i traveled led back to you”

“Visit your soul; don't visit your past.”

“We have to be prepared for change.”

“I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change.”

“Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.”

“On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop”

“Love is an act of faith & its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling & emotion because if we try to decipher it & understand it, the magic disappears.”

“Infatuation was a good thing. It gave spice to life, and added to its enjoyment… But it was different from love. Love was worth everything, and couldn't be exchanged for anything.”

“Live to please the others, and everyone will love you, except yourself.”

“If you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.”

“Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life”

“Love lasts because it changes and not because it stays the same and never faces any challenges.”

“True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do”

“We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or of moments that could have been found but were forever hidden in the sands.”

“I'm not worried about tomorrow, because God is there already, waiting for me.”

“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.”

“Whenever a new situation presented itself, you had to remain cool and distant”

“Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence.”

“You are your own best friend. Never ever, put yourself down.”

“Love transforms, Love heals. But sometimes it lays deadly traps and ends up destroying the person who decided to surrender himself completely.”

“Today don't beg, don't ask, just thank God in silence for all the blessings in your life.”

“The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.”

“With every farewell comes a hidden hope.”

“You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love.”

“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.”

“To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.”

“when we release our dark side, it will completely overshadow the best in us.”

“Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love.”

“I have a gift for inventing fantasies with extraordinary speed.”

“Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.”

“We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.”

“How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly?”

“For those that were never wounded by love, they will never be able to say: “I lived”. Because they haven’t.”

“Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.”

“Not everyone can see his dreams come true in the same way.”

“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.”

“Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)”

“Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by.”