Quotes from Paulo Coelho

It is necessary to run risks, to follow certain paths and to abandon others. No one can make a choice without feeling fear.

Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.

Life does not play with marked cards.Winning or losing is part of it.

The magic moment is the moment when a 'yes' or a 'no' can change our whole existence.

Judging yourself to be full of virtue paralyses. Judging yourself to be full of guilt also paralyses.

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.

He does not keep company with those who wish to harm him.

Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

Each moment spent searching is also a moment spent finding.

A Warrior never accepts what is unacceptable.

But he keeps his heart free of any feelings of hatred.

Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked. "Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.

When there is no turning back, then we should concern ourselves only with the best way of going forward.

To teach is to show what is possible; to learn is to make yourself possible.

Time that never ends, that never passes, that remains in the present, where all of life's secrets lie.

There are two kinds of world: the one we dream about and the real one.

The Lord only demands of us what is within our capabilities.

I believe that I am guided by chance encounters. I believe in the miracle of chance encounters.

As I don't know about tomorrow, I never save the best for later.

A Warrior is always vigilant.

The three classic ways in which the Devil tempts us are with a threat, a promise or a seduction.

People make a lot of effort not to remember, not to accept their immense magical potential.

PAIN was no longer a cause of suffering, but a source of pleasure, Because they were redeeming humanity from its sins. Pain becomes joy, the meaning of life, pleasure.

I refuse to walk faintly through life only to arrive safely at death!