Fear of failure leads to failure.
—Paulo Coelho
He tries to show each person how much they are capable of achieving.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: War, Light, Warrior
A philosophy of life: I’m an adventurer, looking for treasure.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Purpose, Vision, Life
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows
—Paulo Coelho
Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.
—Paulo Coelho
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
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
Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.
—Paulo Coelho
When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple. Everything is possible.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Energy
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
The warrior of the light has a destiny to fulfill.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Warrior, War, Light, Destiny
In these words lies all his power: He chose the path along which he is walking and so has no complaints.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: War, Warrior, Power, Light, Lies
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Challenges
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, Follow, Courage, Dream
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
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Experience
We wouldn’t worry nearly as much about what others thought of us if we recognize how seldom they do.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Worry
I don’t know what to do. I only know that it’s taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I didn’t want to go in.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Decide, Life
If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness…people would be fairer and happier.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: People, Decide, Live
A warrior of the light…never confuses tension with anxiety.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Anxiety, Light, War, Warrior
You’re someone who’s different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Decide, Rent
It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Dreams
Live. If you live, God will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he’ll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation. Everyone knows this, but no one takes the first step, perhaps for fear of being called insane.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Risk, Fear, God, Live, Decide
No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Lies
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: Persona, War, Light, Warrior, Life, God
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
Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Soul, Warrior, War, Light
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Goals, Achieve, Commitment
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