Paolo Coelho Quotes

You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life. ~ Paulo Coelho

Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely. ~ Paulo Coelho

Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids. ~ Paolo Bacigalupi

If you want to achieve your objectives, you have to be prepared for a daily dose of pain or discomfort. At first, it's unpleasant and demotivating, but in time you come to realise that it's part of the process of feeling good, and the moment arrives when, if you don't feel pain, you have a sense that the exercises aren't having the desired effect. ~ Paulo Coelho

You must find your treasure in order to make sense of everything you discovered on the path. ~ Paulo Coelho

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. ~ Paulo Coelho

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- Paul Coelho, The Alchemist ~ Klaus Schirmer

We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as the years accumulate, so too do the layers of prejudice, fear and guilt. There comes a time when our personal calling is so deeply buried in our soul as to be invisible. But know that it's still there. ~ Paulo Coelho

True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart. ~ Paulo Coelho

He will be England captain one day. Jack Wilshere is a real leader. I saw how he spoke with the referee and the other players [against Denmark]. It is difficult to find someone so young with such a big personality. I remember two defenders, Paolo Maldini and Franco Baresi, and one attacker, Raul, but for personality and confidence on the pitch he is the best young midfielder I have seen for his age. ~ Fabio Capello

Love is always the same but people change. ~ Paulo Coelho

The first symptom of the process of our killing our dreams is the lack of time," Petrus continued. "The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight. "The second symptom of the death of our dreams lies in our certainties. Because we don't want to see life as a grand adventure, we begin ~ Paulo Coelho

By performing apparently absurd rituals, you get in touch with something deep in your soul, in the oldest part of yourself, the part closest to the origin of everything. ~ Paulo Coelho

Going after a dream has a price. It may mean abandoning our habits, it may make us go through hardships, or it may lead us to disappointment, et cetera. But however costly it may be, it is never as high as the price paid by people who didn't live. Because one day they will look back and hear their own heart say: 'I wasted my life.' " He is not making things any easier. Let's suppose ~ Paulo Coelho

When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World ... when you love someone with all your heart, that's when you are transformed."
"Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive ... and it has a soul. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us ... we continue to change as change is the nature of man. No one is "just this way". That is who they are today - it will not be who they are tomorrow. ~ Paulo Coelho

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

I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind. ~ Paolo Sorrentino

And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance. ~ Pier Paolo Pasolini

No one knows what is going to happen in the next few minutes, and yet people still go forward, because they have trust, because they have faith. ~ Paulo Coelho

A boy and a girl were insanely in love with each other," my mother's voice was saying. "They decided to become engaged. And that's when presents are always exchanged.

The boy was poor–his only worthwhile possession was a watch he'd inherited from his grandfather. Thinking about his sweetheart's lovely hair, he decided to sell the watch in order to buy her a silver barrette.

The girl had no money herself to buy him a present. She went to the shop of the most successful merchant in the town and sold him her hair. With the money, she bought a gold watchband for her lover.

When they met on the day of the engagement party, she gave him the wristband for a watch he had sold, and he gave her the barrette for the hair she no longer had ~ Paulo Coelho

Which of us can honestly say that we haven't been unfaithful at least once in our life, even if only in our imagination? ~ Paulo Coelho

If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart. ~ Paulo Coelho

Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life. ~ Paulo Coelho

Rome is a city I love very much. I have lived there since I was a child. ~ Paolo Sorrentino

Nailer smiled bitterly in the acrid wind. That was what thinking about clipper ships got you. A lungful of smoke because you weren't paying attention to what was around. ~ Paolo Bacigalupi

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man. ~ Paulo Coelho

Lord bless our week. The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go beyond what we think. ~ Paulo Coelho

He also knows the power of word. ~ Paulo Coelho

If I then discovered a cancer in myself and died, I'd consider it a victory of that reality of things. ~ Pier Paolo Pasolini

A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks:
"Aren't you tired of waiting?"
"Yes," answers the rose, "but if I close my petals, I will wither and die. ~ Paulo Coelho

he said we should concern ourselves only with today, because the lilies in the field toil not, neither do they spin, but arrayed in glory. ... ~ Paulo Coelho

What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life? ~ Paulo Coelho

A Warrior also knows that the fool who gives advice about someone else's garden is not tending his own plants. ~ Paulo Coelho

It was Don Paolo's birthday and all the people of the village were gathered in the piazza to celebrate him. The band played, the wine flowed, the children danced, and, as he stood for a moment alone under the pergola, a little girl approached the the beloved priest. "But Don Paolo, are you not happy?" she asked him. "Of course I am happy," he assured the little girl. "Why, then, aren't you crying? ~ Marlena De Blasi

There were times when he'd told her that every star was a bit of gold that was hers for the taking, because she was Chinese and with hard work and attendance to her ancestiors and traditions, she would prosper. And now, here they were under a blanket of gold dust, the Milky Way spread over them like some great shifting blanket, the stars so thick that if he were tall enough he could reach up and squeeze them and have them run down his arms.
Gold, all around, and all of it untouchable. ~ Paolo Bacigalupi

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager. ~ Paulo Coelho

How do you know?" He whispered. "How do you know you can trust?"
"You can't know," she said. "That's what trust is. ~ Paolo Bacigalupi

Love can take us to heaven or hell, but it always takes us somewhere. Therefore, be prepared to travel ... ~ Paulo Coelho

Love is just a further impetus, not something that will prevent us going forward. We do not realize that those who genuinely wish us well want us to be happy and are prepared to accompany us on that journey. ~ Paulo Coelho

We have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments. We can stifle its cries, but we cannot silence its voice.The child we once were is still there. Blessed are the children, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.If we are not reborn if we cannot learn to look at life with the innocence and the enthusiasm o childhood it makes no sense to go on living. ~ Paulo Coelho

Passion. It can be used to describe the beauty of an earth-shaking meeting between two people, but it isn't just that. It's there in the excitement of the unexpected, in the desire to do something with real fervour, in the certainty that one is going to realise a dream. Passion sends us signals that guide us through our lives. ~ Paulo Coelho

The 'insane' always believe in first impressions. ~ Paulo Coelho

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

Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul. On the other hand, when the sun appeared, the children would come out to play in the streets, and everyone was happy that it was such a lovely day, and then I would feel terrible, as if that display of exuberance in which i could not participate was somehow unfair. ~ Paulo Coelho

How perverse! just when everything seems to be in order and as families gather round the table to have supper,the phantom of the superclass appears,selling impossible dreams:luxury,beauty,power.And the family falls apart ~ Paulo Coelho

Changes happen when we go against everything we're used to doing. ~ Paulo Coelho

I'm like one of those leaves on the city ground, who lived thinking it would be everlasting and died without knowing exactly why; who loved the sun and the moon and who watched those buses and rattling streetcars go by for a long time, and yet no one ever had the courtesy to let her know that winter existed. They lived it up, until one day they began to turn yellow and the tree bid them farewell. It didn't say "see you later" but "good-bye," knowing the leaves would never be back. And it asked the wind for help loosening them from their branches and carrying them far away. The tree knows it can grow only if it rests. And if it grows, it will be respected. And can produce even more beautiful flowers. ~ Paulo Coelho

I am black with love/ neither boy nor nightingale/ perfectly whole as a flower/ I desire without impulse ~ Pier Paolo Pasolini

I can say that Thiago Silva has no rival in his position. He is by far the best defender in the world. It's a compliment for me to be compared to him. ~ Paolo Maldini

All love stories are the same. ~ Paulo Coelho

Life attracts life. ~ Paulo Coelho