A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Risk, Courage
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, Nature, People, Decide, God, Courage, Sin, Rent
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: Decide, Enthusiasm, Love
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Achieve, Goals, Commitment
Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.
—Paulo Coelho
If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
—Paulo Coelho
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
—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
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Pain
How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.
—Paulo Coelho
The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Adventure, Decide
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
No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Lies
It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Dreams
When everyone dreams but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Decide, War, Dream, Dreams
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
An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Decide, Awareness, Live, Courage, Death, War
The moment that he begins to walk along it, the warrior of the light recognizes the path.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Warrior, War, Light
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: Warrior, Light, War, Soul
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose—and commit myself to—what is best for me.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Commitment, Freedom, Best
Every Warrior of the Light has felt afraid of going into battle. Every Warrior of the Light has, at some time in the past, lied or betrayed someone. Every Warrior of the Light has trodden a path that was not his. Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons. Every Warrior of the Light has, at least once, believed he was not a Warrior of the Light. Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties. Every Warrior of the Light has said ‘yes’ when he wanted to say ‘no.’ Every Warrior of the Light has hurt someone he loved. That is why he is a Warrior of the Light, because he has been through all this and yet has never lost hope of being better than he is.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Warrior, Courage, Believe, Growth
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Dream, Fear, Failure, Achieve, Courage
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
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: War, Light, Persona, Life, Warrior, God
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: Act, Perfect, War, Learn, Lies, Light, Warrior, Beauty
I learned the most important lesson of my life: that the extraordinary is not the birthright of a chosen and privileged few, but of all people, even the humblest. That is my one certainty: we are all the manifestation of the divinity of God.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: People, Vision, Life, God, Purpose
Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
—Paulo Coelho
Fear of failure leads to failure.
—Paulo Coelho
We wouldn’t worry nearly as much about what others thought of us if we recognize how seldom they do.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Worry
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
—Paulo Coelho
Topics: Love
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