Quotes from Paulo Coelho

No matter how you feel today, get up, dress up & show up

The cup of suffering is not the same size for everyone.

I fell asleep and dreamed that life was only Happiness. I woke and discovered that life was Duty. I did my Duty and discovered that life was Happiness.

When the Warrior takes on a commitment, he keeps his word.

He unwittingly takes a false step and plunges into the abyss.

Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding.

The only job you have in life is to recognize and honor your personal legend

Sometimes the Warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once.

The Warrior of the Light pays attention to small things because they can severely hamper him.

In the intervals between battles, the Warrior rests.

The warrior of light only risks his heart for something worthwhile.

Eat when it is time to eat. And walk when it is time to walk.

Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration.

As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.

He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words.

He too shares his world with the people he loves.

Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable.

Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.

The great blessing of life is the existence of tomorrows - and having dreams to realize.

I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That's why I have to have apartments with gardens.

I think you can have 10, 000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don't. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.