Paulo Coelho de Souza (b.1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. He is best known for his novel The Alchemist. In 2014, he uploaded his personal papers online to create a virtual Paulo Coelho Foundation.
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We all have the ability…we just don’t all have the courage to follow our dreams and to follow the signs.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Dreams, Dream, Courage, Follow
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it’s another to think that yours is the only path.
—Paulo Coelho
Then, accepting the help of God and of God’s signs, he allows his personal legend to guide him toward the tasks that life has reserved for him.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Life, Persona, Light, Warrior, War, God
I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
—Paulo Coelho
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Achieve, Goals, Commitment
A warrior balances solitude and dependence.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Balance, Warrior, Solitude, War, Light
Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.
—Paulo Coelho
An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Death, Awareness, Decide, War, Courage, Live
The moment that he begins to walk along it, the warrior of the light recognizes the path.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Light, War, Warrior
We wouldn’t worry nearly as much about what others thought of us if we recognize how seldom they do.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Worry
When a person truly desires something, all the Universe conspires to help that person realize his dream.
—Paulo Coelho
Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Decide
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Love
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows
—Paulo Coelho
In these words lies all his power: He chose the path along which he is walking and so has no complaints.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Power, Light, Lies, Warrior, War
A warrior of the light…never confuses tension with anxiety.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: War, Light, Warrior, Anxiety
The world lies in the hands of those that have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams – each according to his or her own talent.
—Paulo Coelho
Join with those who sing songs, tell stories, enjoy life … because happiness is contagious. Join those who walk with their heads high even when they have tears in their eyes. Avoid those who … have never shed a tear
—Paulo Coelho
Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it’s because that desire originated in the sould of the universe. It’s your mission on earth.
—Paulo Coelho
Warriors of the light are not perfect. Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Perfect, Warrior, Learn, Beauty, War, Lies, Act, Light
We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it’s our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.
—Paulo Coelho
But 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.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Suffering
It was dangerous to overflow because we might end up finding ourselves occupied by our loved ones and drowning them with our love and enthusiasm.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Love, Enthusiasm, Decide
I don’t regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Pain
We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, G-d gives us the sun-and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Unhappiness
If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
—Paulo Coelho
The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Decide, Adventure
In all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other… People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Rest, Create, People, Rent, God, Sin, Decide, Nature, Courage
Try to find pleasure in the speed that you’re not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you’re the one who must decide how you handle it.
—Paulo Coelho
What’s the world’s greatest lie? … It’s this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.
—Paulo Coelho
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Pain
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.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Dreams
If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness…people would be fairer and happier.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Live, Decide, People
When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things happen in their lives everyday; that the sun rise.
—Paulo Coelho
You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Attention
When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple. Everything is possible.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Energy
When everyone dreams but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Decide, War, Dream, Dreams
It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Wisdom
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.
—Paulo Coelho
On some nights, he has nowhere to sleep, on others he suffers from insomnia. “That’s just how it is,” thinks the warrior. “I was the one who chose to walk this path”.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Think, Light, Warrior, Sleep, War
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