Happiness Paulo Coelho Quotes

The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others. ~ Paulo Coelho

JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide. ~ Paulo Coelho

You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. ~ Paulo Coelho

That's the way it is. People can't cope with happiness. ~ Paulo Coelho

What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want? You want to justify your life, to live it as intensely as possible. That is at once a trap and a source of ecstasy. Try to be alert to that danger and experience the joy and the adventure of being that woman who is beyond the image reflected in the mirror. ~ Paulo Coelho

Let go of the idea that the path will lead you to your goal. The truth is that with each step we take, we arrive. Repeat that to yourself every morning: 'I've arrived.' That way you'll find it much easier to stay in touch with each second of your day. ~ Paulo Coelho

There is a universal language, understood by everybody, but already forgotten. I am in search of that universal language, among other things. ~ Paulo Coelho

When you are moving toward an objective," said Petrus, "it is very important to pay attention to the road. It is the road that teaches us the best way to get there, and the road enriches us as we walk its length. ~ Paulo Coelho

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. ~ Paulo Coelho

you, the woman who justified my life and gave it meaning. ~ Paulo Coelho

DO YOU want me to masturbate you? ~ Paulo Coelho

The Warrior of the Light knows that everyone is afraid of everyone else. ~ Paulo Coelho

Tough times test your valor, persistence and ability to make decisions. They force you to fight for your dreams. ~ Paulo Coelho

Any man who, having planted a vineyard, has not yet reaped the benefits should do so at once, so that he does not die in the struggle and leave it for another to enjoy. ~ Paulo Coelho

You cannot trust a person until you know where and how he lives ~ Paulo Coelho

When I'm dancing, I'm not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife. ~ Paulo Coelho

We must marry, have children, reproduce the species. ~ Paulo Coelho

The Warrior is terrified when making important decisions. ~ Paulo Coelho

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk. ~ Paulo Coelho

God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of
this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside. ~ Paulo Coelho

Everything that could happen, but it never happened, eventually was taken away by the wind and leaves no trace.The life - this is our actions. ~ Paulo Coelho

I believe everything is one thing only. That said, there are some questions in my life that I don't know.. I've stopped asking. At the very beginning of my life, I wanted to have answers for everything. And now I respect the fact that I can't have answers for everything. ~ Paulo Coelho

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

Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content - not necessarily that which makes others content. ~ Paulo Coelho

Before commencing battle, the Warrior of Light opens his heart and asks God to inspire him. ~ Paulo Coelho

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. ~ Paulo Coelho

Apathy. Pretending to be happy, pretending to be sad, pretending to have an orgasm, pretending to be having fun, pretending that you've slept well, pretending that you're alive. Until there comes a point where you reach an imaginary red line and realize that if you cross it, there will be no turning back. Then you stop complaining, because complaining means that you are at least still battling something. You accept the vegetative state and try to conceal it from everyone. And that's hard work. ~ Paulo Coelho

Be realistic: always wish the impossible. ~ Paulo Coelho

When he is forced to perform the same task several times, the Warrior uses this tactic and transforms work into prayer. ~ Paulo Coelho

Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries, that way of thinking will have changed. Live now what others will only live in the future. ~ Paulo Coelho

Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes a curse - and others will always choose for him. ~ Paulo Coelho

I write to empty my mind and to fill my heart. ~ Paulo Coelho

An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely. ~ Paulo Coelho

When you close that door to nowhere throw away the key, we have a tendency to look back and regret ~ Paulo Coelho

God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered. ~ Paulo Coelho

I should have said to the young woman who asked the first question about signs that this was a sign, confirming that I was where I should be, in the right place, at the right time, even though I didn't understand what had brought me there. I suspect there was no need though. She would ~ Paulo Coelho

A sunset is always more beautiful when it is covered with irregularly shaped clouds, because only then can it reflect the many colors out of which dreams and poetry are made. Pity ~ Paulo Coelho

I've discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer. ~ Paulo Coelho

That is why she had chosen suicide: freedom at last. Eternal oblivion. ~ Paulo Coelho

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

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

I believe in One God,though you think that the gods dwell in those clouds on the Fifth Mountain.i don't want to argue whether my God is stronger or more powerful;I would speak not of our differences but of our similarities.Tragedy has united us in a single sentiment:despair.Why has that come to pass?Because we thought that everything was answered and decided in our souls,and we could accept no changes. ~ Paulo Coelho

Religion teaches that faith and transformation are the only ways of drawing near to God. Faith shows us that we are never alone. Transformation helps us to love the mystery. ~ Paulo Coelho

Why should I listen to my heart ?
Because you will never again be able to keep it quite . Even if you pretend not to have heard what it tells you . ~ Paulo Coelho

Imagine a place where people pretend to be crazy in order to do exactly what they want. ~ Paulo Coelho

From the moment that you don't fear to share your heart, you are a free person. ~ Paulo Coelho

Not knowing whether to wait or to forget is the worst kind of suffering. ~ Paulo Coelho

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself. ~ Paulo Coelho

He remembers the five rules of combat set down by Chuan Tzu - faith, companions, time, space and strategy. ~ Paulo Coelho

I love this man sitting before me now, because I do not possess him and he does not possess me. We are free in our mutual surrender; I need to repeat this dozens, hundreds, millions of times, until I finally believe my own words. ~ Paulo Coelho

A warrior of light always commits himself. He is enslaved to his dream but he is free in his steps. ~ Paulo Coelho