Quotes from Paulo Coelho

Tough times test your valor, persistence and ability to make decisions. They force you to fight for your dreams.

Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams.

We must struggle for our dreams, but when certain paths prove impossible, it would be best to save our energies in order to travel other roads.

Not everyone can see his dreams come true in the same way.

To dream is not enough, you have to fulfill your dream.

The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.

The universe always helps us fight for our dreams, no matter how foolish they may be.

when fate is very generous with us, there is always a well into which all our dreams can tumble.

Remember your dreams and fight for them.

Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over & over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.

I am not saying that I am different, but I don't have emotional pain. I may be angry and I may be peaceful, but no emotional pain.

Comparing is impoverishing your own experience

Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle.

Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.

Faith as tiny as a grain of sand allows us to move mountains.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are, and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality, it connects you to reality.

Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith.

We cant choose our lives, but we can decide what to do with the joys or griefs were given.

You don't choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them and carry on.

Man struggles to survive, not to succumb.

It's not important what we think, or what we do or what we believe in: each of us will die one day. Better to do as the old Yaqui Indians did: regard death as an advisor. Always ask: 'Since I'm going to die, what should I be doing now?'

Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to you will feed that dark side of your soul, where you consider yourself wronged, suffering, guilty and deserving punishment. If you choose to be an adventurer, the changes - even the inevitable losses, since everything in this world changes - can cause some pain, but will soon thrust you forward, forcing you to react.

Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely.

We always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life throws at us, but most of the time, those resources are locked up in the depths of our heart and we waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them. By the time we've found them, we already been defeated by adversity.