Paulo Coelho Quotes

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

“It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.”

“Love is not to be found in someone else but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person.”

“If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.”

“To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges.”

“Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work.”

“she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.”

“God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change”

“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.”

“When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.”

“In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.”

“They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.”

“Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.”

“There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.”

“If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.”

“Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated… Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.”

“No, I'm not mistaken. I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end. You are worth it.”

“You must always know what it is that you want.”

“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.”

“I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.”

“I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that 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 that smile dimmed by tears”

“And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.”

“If I believe I will win, then victory will believe in me.”

“It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and, when the wind turns against us, always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds, or to blame someone else for our mistakes.”

“Free again, but it's just a feeling; freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit yourself to what is best for you.”

“I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.”

“Love isn't just a feeling. It's an art. And like any art, it takes not only inspiration but also a lot of work.”

“To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive”

“Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.”

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

“A life without a cause is a life without effect.”

“I'm going away," he said. "And I want you to know that I'm coming back. I love you because…."

"Don't say anything," Fatima interrupted. "One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”

“I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.”

“The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.”

“You could tell your soul mate by the light in their eyes, and since the time began, that has been how people have recognized their true love.”

“Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt.”

“Long since, the desert wind wiped away our footprints in the sand. But at every second of my existence, I remember what happened, and you still walk in my dreams and in my reality. Thank you for having crossed my path.”

“Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.”

“The night is just a part of the day”

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

“Stop thinking about life and choose to live it”

“He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.”

“Love can take us to heaven or hell, but it always takes us somewhere. Therefore, be prepared to travel…”

“We all live in our own world. But if you look up at the starry sky - you'll see that all the different worlds up there combine to form constellations, solar systems, galaxies.”

“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.”

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

“Warriors of the light are not perfect. Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.”

“With love, there are no rules. The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.”

“I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.”

“Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.”