Paulo Coelho Quotes

Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.

Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs - but move on.

Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity.

Sometimes it's what you don't say that counts.

Don't give up. Normally it is the last key on the ring which opens the door.

You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don't feel guilty and accept the blessings.

Life is a long pilgrimage from fear to love.

Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.

Everyday God gives us the sun, and also the moment in wich have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Our magic moment helps us to change and send us off in search of our dreams.

Shine without guilt. Modesty was invented by the mediocres who think you should be the same as them.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

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

An enthusiastic heart finds opportunities everywhere.

If we don't face our fears, our fears will chase us forever.

But how will I know who my Soulmate is? Brida felt that this was one of the most important questions she had ever asked in her life.

Do not seek to be loved at any price, because Love has no price.

The best way to be original is to be yourself.

No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around.

If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.

The beauty of truth: whether it is bad or good, it is liberating.

Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.

All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step

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.

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. You've got to find the treasure, so that everything you have learned along the way can make sense.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain.

Open your heart and listen to what it is telling you. Follow your dreams, because only a man who is unashamed of himself can manifest the glory of God.

I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

And a mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong.

Miracles only happen if you believe in miracles.

Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because don't know what to do with it.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

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

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near

Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.

When we are unable to receive, we deny someone else the pleasure of giving.

Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.

The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.

Start using your wings; they need some exercise.