Paulo Coelho Quotes

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

“Everything depends on which path you take.”

“I'm an old, superstitious Arab, and I believe in our proverbs. There's one that says, 'Everything that happens once can never happen again. But anything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”

“I haven’t the slightest interest in being happy. I prefer to live life passionately, which is dangerous because you never know what might happen next.”

“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.”

“It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.”

“Where your treasure is, there also will be your heart.”

“Give time time.”

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

“No one can go back, but everyone can go forward.”

“And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.”

“Live the life you always wanted to live. Avoid criticizing others and concentrate on fulfilling your dreams.”

“I love you because all the loves in the world are like different rivers flowing into the same lake where they meet and are transformed into a single love that becomes rain and blesses the earth.”

“Success is falling down 7 times but getting up 8!”

“Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.”

“because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.”

“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say”

“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…”

“She wants to drink that man too, and then she can forget forever the cheap wine that you gulp down and that makes you feel drunk, but always leaves you with a headache and an empty space in your soul.”

“The story of one person is the story of all of humanity.”

“Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality.”

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

“it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear”

“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.”

“Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else……. above all dont forget to follow your destiny through to its conclusion”

“You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.”

“Lie down on the ground and feel the planet's heart beating.”

“And to those who believe that adventures are i say try routine: it kills you far more quickly.”

“Dear Depression, please keep your distance. Don’t be nasty. Find some other person with more reason than me to look in the mirror and say: “What a pointless existence.” Whether you like it or not, I know how to defeat you. You’re wasting your time.”

“In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change.”

“If you're asking me if I like your company, the answer is yes. If, on the other hand, you're asking me if I could live without you, the answer is also yes.”

“Love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.”

“Hurry up: your dreams are waiting for you, but they will not wait forever”

“Man struggles to survive, not to succumb”

“Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.”

“we can harness the energy of the winds, the seas, the sun. But the day man learns to harness the energy of love, that will be as important as the discovery of fire.”

“The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles.”

“Love creates bridges where it would seem they were impossible.”

“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.”

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

“God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.”

“What is outside is harder to change than what is inside.”

“But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best.”

“Freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that smile is dimmed with tears.”

“if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests he did not create a single leaf the same as another.”

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

“Our dreams are our own, and only we can know the effort required to keep them alive.”

“Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle.”

“Love does not to be understood. It needs only to be shown.”

“If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.”