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Quotes About Belief

At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.
~ Paulo Coelho
Everyone believes the world's greatest lie... says the mysterious old man. What is the world's greatest lie? the little boy asks. The old man replies, 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. That's the world's greatest lie.
~ Paulo Coelho
In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong.
~ Paulo Coelho
But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.
~ Paulo Coelho
In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better days ahead, as, I suspect is your case. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the fate awaits those who believe promises.
~ Paulo Coelho
She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.
~ Paulo Coelho
Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us,...
~ Paulo Coelho
If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.
~ Paulo Coelho
You are what you believe yourself to be
~ Paulo Coelho
But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to become passionate about something that was impossible. I knew my limits; I knew how much suffering i could bear.
~ Paulo Coelho
No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.
~ Paulo Coelho
Don't explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you
~ Paulo Coelho
You say they create their own reality, said Veronika, but what is reality?
~ Paulo Coelho
If you believe in victory, then victory will believe in you.
~ Paulo Coelho
There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve things at the shop. It was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.
~ Paulo Coelho
All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion is also choosing a collective way for worshipping and sharing the mysteries. Nevertheless, that person is the only one responsible for his or her actions along the way and has no right to shift responsibility for any personal decisions on to that religion.
~ Paulo Coelho
The Warrior of the Light is a believer. Because he believes in miracles, miracles begin to happen. Because he is sure that his thoughts can change his life, his life begins to change. Because he is certain that he will find love, love appears.
~ Paulo Coelho
If I believe I will win, then victory will believe in me.
~ Paulo Coelho
Dreams are the language of God.
~ Paulo Coelho
Every moment in life is an act of faith
~ Paulo Coelho
People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.
~ Paulo Coelho
I learned that the search for God is a Dark Night, that Faith is a Dark Night. And that's hardly a surprise really, because for us each day is a dark night. None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, and yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.
~ Paulo Coelho
Only children believe they're capable of everything.
~ Paulo Coelho
Never stop dreaming.
~ Paulo Coelho