Peru cult writer Paulo Coelho owns no less than 18 books: novels, anthologies, collections of short stories and parables, and their circulation already exceeds 350 million copies. He is read and loved all over the world.
Paulo Coelho, like no one else, knows how to help you look at life from a different angle, find the great in the small, look at life with optimism and find the strength to love.
We have collected for you 30 best quotes by Paulo Coelho about love and life, which may help you understand something important for yourself:
- Sometimes you need to go around the whole world to understand that the treasure is buried near your own home.
- If you are able to see beauty, it is only because you carry beauty within yourself. For the world is like a mirror in which everyone sees their own reflection.
- What happened once may never happen again. But what happened twice will certainly happen a third time.
- When you really want something, the whole Universe will help make your wish come true.
- If I do exactly the things that people expect from me, I will fall into their slavery.
- Life is always waiting for the right moment to act.
- Getting lost is the best way to find something interesting.
- The darkest hour is before the dawn.
- If a person is yours, then he is yours, and if he is drawn somewhere else, then nothing will hold him back, and he is not worth your nerves or attention.
- Everything in the world is different manifestations of the same thing.
- Everyone says anything in the back, but in the eyes - what is beneficial.
- If love changes a person quickly, then despair changes even faster.
- Where we are expected, we always turn up right on time.
- Life can sometimes be surprisingly stingy - for whole days, weeks, months, years a person does not receive a single new sensation. And then he opens the door slightly - and a whole avalanche falls on him.
- Waiting is the hardest thing.
- Our angels are always with us, and often they use someone else's lips to tell us something.
- Constantly feeling unhappy is an unaffordable luxury..
- There are people who were born to go through life alone, this is not good or bad, this is life.
- You should never give up on your dreams! Dreams feed our soul, just like food feeds our body. No matter how many times in life we have to experience disaster and see our hopes dashed, we must still continue to dream.
- Sometimes you have to run to see who will run after you. Sometimes you have to speak softer to see who is really listening to you. Sometimes you have to take a step back to see who else is on your side. Sometimes you have to make bad decisions to see who is with you when everything falls apart.
- Once I found all the answers, all the questions changed.
- We say the most important words in our lives silently.
- Sometimes you have to die to start living.
- People want to change everything and at the same time want everything to remain the same.
- What you are looking for is also looking for you.
- Always say what you feel and do what you think! Silence breaks destinies...
- The person does everything the other way around. He is in a hurry to become an adult, and then sighs about his past childhood. He spends his health for money and immediately spends money on improving his health. He thinks about the future with such impatience that he neglects the present, which is why he has neither the present nor the future. Lives as if he would never die, and dies as if he had never lived.
- Having reached the end, people laugh at the fears that tormented them at the beginning.
- It sometimes happens that life separates two people - only to show both how important they are to each other.
- Everything always ends well. If it ends badly, then it's not the end yet.
“I would like to have a person next to me, in whose presence my heart would beat evenly and regularly, a person next to whom I would feel calm, because I would not be afraid of losing him the next day. And then time would flow more slowly, and we could simply remain silent, knowing that we still have a whole life ahead of us to talk..."
“Everything always ends well. If everything ends badly, then it’s not the end yet.”
The darkest hour of your life before the most beautiful dawn.
True love does not require reciprocity, and those who want to receive a reward for their love are wasting their time.
Losing people I've fallen in love with has hurt my soul before. Now I am convinced: no one can lose anyone, because no one belongs to anyone.
This strange thing is LOVE... Yesterday you didn’t know a person yet... and today you can’t live a day without him... you think about him... you wait until you can say a few words to him, or write something... and so on day after day ... But you haven’t even seen this person even once... You just exchanged photographs, gave some advice... and then... and then you suddenly realized that... you need this person more than anything... even more than you need yourself... You probably remember the legend that at one time the Gods divided people into two halves... and for a person to be happy, he must find his half... Here is the same case... You are the same half that I was looking for... I searched for a long time... and found ... I LOVE YOU... Unfortunately, I can’t be with you right now... and this oppresses me no less than you... And yet, imagine our first meeting... to this melody... standing on the bridge... holding hands... looking into each other’s eyes... just stand there, say nothing... and so everything is clear...
“Whoever you are, whatever you want, if you really want something, you will certainly get it, because this desire was born in the soul of the Universe. This is your purpose on Earth."
The fear of making a mistake is the door that locks us into the castle of mediocrity. If we overcome this fear, we will take an important step towards our freedom
Love is a hard road. Difficult because it will either take you to heaven or bring you down to hell
I'm exactly the same as everyone else; I take wishful thinking and see the world not as it really is, but as I want to see it.
There is never only one chance; life will definitely give you another one.
Our angels are always with us, and often they use someone else's lips to tell us something.
Just because you have been discharged from a mental hospital does not mean that you have been cured. You just became like everyone else.
Everyone will find happiness, one way or another, sooner or later.
Appreciate things not for how much they cost, but for how much they mean...
You think he wants to sleep with you, but he's just lonely, You think he's lonely, but he just wants to sleep with you. Often a man himself cannot say what he really wants...
The person does everything the other way around. He is in a hurry to become an adult, and then sighs about his past childhood. He spends his health for money and immediately spends money on improving his health.
He thinks about the future with such impatience that he neglects the present, which is why he has neither the present nor the future.
Lives as if he would never die, and dies as if he had never lived.
- Why do you need a revolver?
- To learn to trust people.
Life is always waiting for that hour when the future depends only on your decisive actions.
Only one thing can make a dream unattainable: fear of failure.
Even if love brings with it separation, loneliness, sadness, it is still worth the price we pay for it.
A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always find something to do and to insist on your own.
I love you. More than yesterday, but less than tomorrow... (Quote from the work “Zaire”)
“The Universe always helps us achieve our dreams, no matter how stupid they may be. For these are our dreams, and only we know what it took to dream them.”
All nations have a saying: “Out of sight, out of mind.” I affirm that there is nothing more false in the world. The farther from the eyes, the closer to the heart. While in exile in a foreign land, we lovingly cherish in our memory every little thing that reminds us of our homeland. Longing for separation from the one we love, we see dear features in every passerby on the street.
“And although my goal is to understand what love is, and although I suffer because of those to whom I gave my heart, I see clearly: those who touch my soul cannot ignite my flesh, and those who touch mine flesh, powerless to comprehend my soul"
You should never give up on your dreams! Dreams feed our soul, just as food feeds our body. No matter how many times in life we have to experience disaster and see our hopes dashed, we must still continue to dream. If this fails, then indifference takes possession of us.
A person who has lost something that he thought would belong to him forever eventually learns that nothing belongs to him.
“Every day God gives us the opportunity to change everything that makes us unhappy, and every day we try to pretend that today is in every way like yesterday and indistinguishable from tomorrow.”
You have to love in such a way that you can pass by the hundred best and never look back.
I am not a body endowed with a soul, I am a soul, part of which is visible and is called the body.
Nobody can manipulate anyone. Both are aware of what they are doing, even if later one of them complains that he was used
It doesn't matter what others think - because they will think something anyway. So relax.
How much have I lost because I was afraid of rubbing
When we least expect it, life challenges us to test our courage and our desire for change; and does not allow us to pretend that nothing is happening, or to make excuses that we are not ready yet. The call must be answered immediately. Life doesn't look back...
If you have the courage to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
Forgiveness is a two-way street. When we forgive someone, we forgive ourselves at that moment. If we are tolerant of other people’s sins and mistakes, then it will be easier to accept our own mistakes and miscalculations. And then, by letting go of feelings of guilt and bitterness, we can improve our attitude towards life. When, out of weakness, we allow hatred, envy, and intolerance to bubble up around us, then we ourselves inevitably succumb to them in the end.
Each of us is responsible for the feelings we experience, and we have no right to blame the other for this...
As it always happens with dreams, their dreams came true, but in a completely different way than they imagined!
Love is a drug. At first there is euphoria, lightness, a feeling of complete dissolution. The next day you want more. You haven’t had time to get involved yet, but although you like the sensations, you are sure that you can do without them at any time. You think about your favorite creature for two minutes and forget about it for three hours. But gradually you get used to it and become completely dependent on it. And then you think about it for three hours and forget for two minutes. If he is not around, you experience the same thing as a drug addict who is deprived of his next dose of potion. And in such moments, like a drug addict who, for the sake of a dose, is capable of robbery, murder and any humiliation, you are ready to do anything for the sake of love...
The most important meetings are arranged by souls, even before the bodies of the body meet.
Some events happen in our lives in order to return us to the true path of Destiny. Others are needed so that we can apply our knowledge in life. And some events are designed to teach us something.
Life is too short to have the luxury of living it so badly
Love is not a habit, not a compromise, not a doubt. This is not what romantic music teaches us. Love is... Without clarifications or definitions. Love - and don't ask. Just love.
What happened once may never happen again, but what happened twice will definitely happen a third time.
Life is short. There is no time to leave important words unsaid.
The Lord, closing the door, will certainly open the window.
An evil man, having died, met an angel at the gates of Hell. The angel told him:
“It was enough for you to do one good deed in your life, and it will help you.” Think carefully.
The man remembered that one day, when he was walking through the forest, he saw a spider on his way and walked around it so as not to crush it.
The angel smiled, and a web descended from the sky, allowing a person to ascend to Paradise. Others condemned to Hell, standing close to the web, also began to climb it. But the man saw this and began to throw them off in fear that the web would break. At that moment it really broke off, and the man returned to Hell again.
“What a pity,” said the angel. “Your concern for yourself turned the only good thing you ever did into evil.”
Once I found all the answers, the questions changed.
Man is the only animal that hurts others without any other purpose!
There are people who were born to go through life alone, this is not good or bad, this is life.
If you repeat every morning that you are satisfied with your life, you have no doubt: not only will you believe, but you will also make everyone around you believe it.
If I am part of your Destiny, someday you will return to me
In any matter, the decision is just the beginning. When a person decides on something, having made a choice, it is as if he dives into a rapid stream that will take him to where he never thought he would be.
Love is known only by love. We must not forget that spiritual experience is, first of all, a practical experience of love. And in love there are no rules. You can try to study textbooks, curb your emotional impulses, develop a strategy of behavior - all this is nonsense. The heart decides, and only the decision it makes is important and necessary.
Of all the types of destructive weapons that man can invent, the most terrible and most powerful is the word. Daggers and spears leave traces of blood, arrows are visible from a distance. The poison can be detected in time and death can be avoided.
The word destroys unnoticed.
Children renounce their dreams in order to please their parents, parents renounce life itself in order to please their children...
The best way to know and destroy an enemy is to become his friend.
Love, indeed, like nothing else, can turn a person’s whole life upside down from time to time. But after love comes something else, which also forces a person to take a path that he had never even thought of before. This something is called "despair". And if love changes a person quickly, then despair changes even faster.
Every warrior of light has already experienced fear before battle.
Every warrior of light has already happened in the past to lie and betray.
Every warrior of light has already wandered the wrong way.
Every warrior of light has already experienced torment over mere trifles.
Every warrior of light has already come to the conclusion that he is not a warrior of light.
Every warrior of light has already had the opportunity to sacrifice his spiritual duty.
Every warrior of light has already said “yes” when he wanted to say “no”.
Every warrior of light has already inflicted wounds on those he loved.
That is why he has the right to be called a warrior of light, because he went through all this and did not lose hope of becoming better than he was.
...If we are able to love, then we will be able to be loved. It's just a matter of time...
She suffered greatly and was angry that these endless days give her only 10 minutes of love, and thousands of hours to think about her lover...
Change is always scary. But no one will change your life for you. You understand the choice you must make, but despite the fear, you move forward. This is the main rule of success.
Sometimes it’s better to leave everything as it is... Walking in faceless solitude among empty streets wherever your eyes look... Envying the free wind, distant stars, the wise sun and the silent moon...
Sometimes we are afraid of losing and losing what we have, although everything that we don’t do, and everything that happens to us is written with one hand... And if we learned to live in the present alone, did not hide in ourselves... Maybe that’s why emptiness exists, so that a person I learned to realize and smile at happiness...
Our loneliness is not in what is lost in the emptiness of our hearts, but in what comes out of it... It seems to me that you are alone in a huge world when I look into your eyes... And may the days not differ from one another, just like the time from sunrise to sunset... And every day the emptiness becomes silent, its stinginess does not care about the past or the future... it is content with looking at people... But someday you will understand that the darkest hour in your life is before the most beautiful dawn...
And let people come into your life in search of something new, but leave remaining the same as they were... They will understand that the old, the past is better than the present... That life is interesting when the people around you are the same... And how- then it naturally turns out that they enter your life, without noticing it, and want to change it...
Time will pass and you will read this letter again, and only then will you be able to understand it...
And the more extraordinary a person is, the simpler he is in appearance, thus the more invisible he is to others, the easier it is to forget and lose him. And not everyone can understand the meaning of his words and the meaning of life... Perhaps we will not see each other again and everything will remain the dream of a lonely person... But I ask you to never forget that wealth itself is born from the emptiness of your heart. You have to find it, and only there, there will everything you understand and read on the way to it find its meaning. It is where the emptiness hides your heart, and the soul, the soul is faithful to the laws of life, that your treasure is hidden - your LOVE...
"Every morning is a time to start life again"
- How do I recognize my soul mate? “Only by taking risks,” she said. - At the risk of failure, disappointment, loss of illusions, but never stopping the search for love!!! And the harder you search, the sooner you will find!!!
You can love a soul without knowing the body, and then go crazy touching the body of your beloved soul.
Love is always new. It doesn't matter how many times love comes across in your life - once, twice or three. Every time we find ourselves in front of the unknown and unknown. Love can lift us to heaven, it can cast us down to hell, but it will not leave us in the same place. Love cannot be rejected, for it is the food of our existence. If we refuse it, we will die of hunger, looking at the branches of the tree of life laden with fruits and not daring to pick these fruits, although here they are - just stretch out your hand. You must look for love wherever you are, even if this search means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness. The thing is that when we go in search of love, love moves towards us. And saves us.
The mirror reflects correctly; it does not make mistakes, because it does not think. To think is almost always wrong
The Lord hears the prayers of those who ask to forget about hatred. But HE is deaf to those who want to run away from love!!!
- How can you do the impossible?
- With enthusiasm!
Centuries of partings have been invented,
To cherish the moment of a brief meeting,
White lies, long years of wandering
Given to drink... They heal, heal.
To know the need and tenacious captivity of diseases,
To know the price of prosperity and health,
Get lost in the chaos of intricacies,
To say goodbye to the aching pain.
We will have to experience the fear of loss,
To start preserving what has not been stored,
Knocking on locked doors for a long time,
As a reward, a new one will open.
Take a step towards death, and, resurrected again,
Understand that life is temporary, albeit eternal,
Live as a recluse for more space
To love the scope - wide, endless!
Let us not reach the top, but know - in the name of
Why were you burning, or at least trying...
... After all, for this purpose the desert was created,
So that a man smiles at the trees.
The future is revealed to a person for one and only reason: if the destined must be changed.
“Absolute freedom does not exist: there is only freedom of choice, and having made a choice, you become a hostage to your decision.”
“When we are praised, we must especially carefully monitor our behavior”
Parable from Paulo Coelho
An old wise Chinese man was walking through a snowy field when he saw an elderly woman crying.
- Why are you crying? he asked.
“Because I think about my life, my youth, the beauty I saw in the mirror, and the man I loved.” God is cruel that he gave the ability to remember. He knew that I would remember the spring of my life and cry.
The sage stood on a snowy field and looked intently at one point and thought. Suddenly the woman stopped crying:
-What do you see there? she asked.
“A field of roses,” answered the sage. “God was generous to me when he gave me the ability to remember.” He knew that in winter I could always remember spring and smile.
When you have the same people around you - ... - it seems natural that they come into your life. And having entered your life, after a while they want to change it. And if you don’t become what they want you to be, they get offended. Everyone knows exactly how to live in the world. But for some reason no one can improve their own life.
The one who gives himself over to feeling without looking back, the one who feels free, the one who loves with all the strength of his soul.
Lonely people lose their sense of time; for them, the hours drag on and the days simply never end.
All battles in life are needed to teach us something. Even the ones we lose.
A person entering your life after a while tries to change you. And if you don’t become what they want you to be, they get offended. Everyone knows exactly how to live in the world. But for some reason no one can improve their own life!
A mosquito once asked a fly:
— Are there flowers in the area?
“I don’t know anything about flowers,” the fly answered him. “But the ditches are full of cans, manure, and sewage.”
And the fly began to list to the mosquito all the surrounding garbage dumps, which he definitely needed to visit.
A mosquito flew in the indicated direction and met a bee along the way.
Have you seen any garbage dumps in the area? - he asked her.
- Garbage dumps? Sewage? No, I haven’t seen it anywhere,” the bee was surprised. “But there are so many fragrant flowers everywhere here.”
… If you are able to see beauty, it is only because you carry beauty inside you. For the world is like a mirror in which everyone sees their own reflection.
The risk of one adventure is worth more than a thousand days of well-being and comfort.
The strongest love is the one that is not afraid to show weakness. Be that as it may, if this is true love, then freedom will sooner or later defeat jealousy and take away the pain it causes, because pain is also in the order of things.
... was afraid to love for fear of losing love
We would like to be in absolute control of every step, be aware of every decision we make, and be able to choose the object of worship ourselves. This does not happen with love - it appears, moves in, makes itself at home and begins to dictate its will. Only the truly strong in spirit allow themselves to be carried away recklessly.
Perhaps God created the desert so that man would smile at the trees.
It is impossible to satisfy people. Those who have little want to have a lot. And those who have a lot want even more. And having received even more, they want to be happy with little, however, they are unable to make an effort for this
...a person cannot realize his dreams in two cases: when they are completely unrealistic and when, after the wheel of fate makes a sudden turn, they turn into something completely feasible, but you are just not ready for it. Then the fear of a road leading to an unknown destination, of a life that throws you unknown challenges, of the possibility that everything familiar and established will rot without a trace and forever comes over you... People want to change everything and at the same time they want everything to remain the same, so like before...
("The Devil and Signorita Prim")
No heart suffers when it goes in search of its dreams, for every moment of this search is a meeting with God and Eternity.
When a person follows the path of his destiny, he often has to change direction. Sometimes external circumstances turn out to be stronger, and he has to give in. This is all part of the lesson.
“What’s on the outside is harder to change than what’s on the inside.”
When one day is like another, people stop noticing the good things that happen to them every day after sunrise.
When you lose someone dear to you, the only consolation in this tragedy can be the fragile, but so indispensable hope that maybe everything is for the better.
The lesson is mastered when you are ready to comprehend, and if you pay attention to the signs and signs, you will certainly understand what is necessary for the next step.
The deepest, most sincere desire is the desire to be close to someone
We, rich, powerful, smart, decorated with jewelry, equipped with credit cards, knew that in the end all this was done in search of love, tenderness, affection, in order to be with someone who loved us.
Don't try to explain emotions. Try to live every day with full dedication, at full intensity. Try to preserve what seems to you to be God's gift. The surest way to destroy the bridge between the visible and the invisible is to try to explain to yourself the feelings you are experiencing.
...and a dream is a very convenient thing, because we are not at all obliged to realize what we dream about. 
If love is true, then it allows everyone to follow their own path, because it knows: nothing will ever separate the Other parts in different directions!!!
This is freedom: to feel what your heart strives for, no matter what others say.
How does light enter the house? If the windows are open. How does light enter a person? If the door of love is not slammed.
The earth produces enough to satisfy needs, but not enough to satisfy greed
If a person is able to love his partner without setting conditions, without imposing restrictions, then by this he expresses his love for God. By showing love to God, he will love his neighbor. If he loves his neighbor, he will love himself. If you love yourself, everything will fall into place. The course of History will change. Neither politics, nor conquest, nor theory, nor war will change it, for this is just a repetition of the same thing - what we have seen since the beginning of time. History will change when we are able to use the energy of love, just as we use the energy of the wind, sea, and atom.
“God’s decisions are mysterious, but they are always in your favor” ... “We go out into the world in search of our desires and ideals. Often we make inaccessible what is within our capabilities” ... “God does not take revenge. God is Love. The only form of punishment that He can resort to is to force the one who interrupted the flow of Love to revive it again”...
A mortally wounded soldier will never say to the doctor: “Save me!” Usually his last words are: “Tell your wife and son that I love them!”
In such a desperate moment, they talk about love.
He is wrong, I have been fighting with my heart for a long time with constant success. I won't fall in love with the unattainable...
A person replaces most of his emotions with fear.
No one will remember you for your thoughts.
People always kill what they love most. We always know which path is the best, but we follow the most familiar one.
There are no beautiful or ugly bodies, because they have all traveled the same path, and each is only a visible part of the soul living in it!!!
You have to take risks. The miracle of life can only be fully realized when we are prepared for the unexpected to happen.
Tears disappear in the rain...
When you love, you can become anyone you want. When you love, you don’t need to understand what’s happening at all, because everything happens inside of us!
Love is not in another, but in ourselves, and we awaken it in ourselves. But in order to awaken her, this other one is needed.
All roads lead to the same place. Choose yours and follow it to the end, without trying to turn to another.
...no one entrusts their dreams into the hands of those who are capable of destroying them...
Life can sometimes be surprisingly stingy - for whole days, weeks, months, years a person does not receive a single new sensation. And then he opens the door slightly - and a whole avalanche falls on him. That's exactly what happened to them. A minute ago there was nothing, and the next minute there was as much as you couldn’t accept.
“Loneliness is a destructive feeling, the feeling that no one in the whole world cares about you.”
Fear ends where the inevitable begins. From this moment on, fear becomes meaningless, and all we have left is hope that we will make the right decision.
The meaning of my life will be the one that I myself will give to it.
“Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, pull yourself together and try to understand exactly what you need. You can’t strive for a goal with your eyes closed..."
You can try to study textbooks, curb emotional impulses, develop a strategy of behavior - all this is just an eye. The heart decides, and only the decision it makes is important and necessary.
When we boldly seek love, love is discovered, and we attract more and more love to ourselves. If one person loves you, then everyone loves you. And if you are lonely, that means you will become even more lonely. So life is funny.
He who interferes in someone else's fate will never pass his own.
There are people who grow wings for themselves, and there are those who take root.
“Many people are afraid of happiness. For them, living a full life means changing many of their habits and losing their sense of identity... We think: “It is better not to drink from the cup of happiness, because when it is empty, we will suffer seriously.” For fear of shrinking,
we are not growing. Out of fear
cry, we don't laugh."
I began to understand that the lack of meaning in life is only my fault.
We women, when we are looking for the meaning of life or the path of knowledge, classify ourselves as one of four classical archetypes:
- Virgo seeks herself in absolute independence, and everything that she has comprehended is born only from her ability to single-handedly respond to the challenges thrown at her.
- The martyr gets to know herself, going through pain, suffering and self-denial.
- In boundless love, in the ability to give without asking for anything in return, the Saint finds the true meaning of her existence.
- And finally, the Witch justifies her existence by searching for the most complete, unfettered pleasure.
The Witch of Portobello
... LIVE!!! if you live, God will live with you, if you refuse to take risks, He will return to distant Heaven and become only a topic for philosophical constructions...
In the world, “living” is more important than “understanding”!
If society condones crime, a person has every right to do what he considers best
“What the “true self” is is what you are, not what has been done to you.”
Instead of thinking about how to live better, we obsessively fight excess weight. Eat in moderation, but with pleasure; evil is not in what goes into the mouth, but in what comes out of it. Who got the idea that everyone should remain thin throughout their lives?
If a man, whom we, in fact, barely know, calls us, says a few words, without saying anything special, without hinting at anything, but in this way giving us the attention that we so rarely receive, then we are quite capable of falling in love with him and end up in bed with him that same night. Yes, we are like that, and there is nothing like that: it is in the nature of a woman to easily open up to love.
Love is a feeling that does not tend to accumulate. New love takes nothing from the experience of the past.
And if I sometimes complain, well, I’m a human heart, that’s for me
characteristic. We are all afraid to realize our most cherished dreams.
dreams, because it seems to us that we are unworthy of them or that it doesn’t matter
we will not be able to implement them. We, human hearts, freeze with fear at the thought of lovers parting forever, of minutes that could have become, but did not become, happy...
This is true freedom - to have what is most dear to you, but not to own it.
Maybe Good and Evil have the same face. It all depends only on when they meet on the path of each of us.
The sky, gloomy in the morning, will not rain!
Blessed are those who are not afraid to show their ignorance.
"Zaire"
The secret of happiness is to see everything that the world is famous for, and never forget about two drops of oil in a teaspoon.
Naki and signs speak their own language, understandable to us, and show us how to act in the best way. However, we often try to distort our own view of them so that they are consistent with what we intend to do at all costs.
Life is very fast; in an instant we fall from heaven to the very underworld.
To encounter suffering, you don’t need any “theater” - life provides us with this opportunity at almost every step.
Time does not change a person, wisdom does not change a person, and the only thing that can rebuild the structure of his thoughts and feelings is love.
Quotes by Paolo Coelho
I think that everyone knows the name of Paolo Coelho, a Brazilian poet and writer, author of the book "The Alchemist". His works have been published not only in Brazil, but also in other countries of the world - these are novels, commented anthologies, collections of short stories - parables. In this post you can get acquainted with his quotes, which I bring to your attention.
If you ask me if I feel good with you, I will answer: “yes.” But if you ask me if I can live without you, I'll answer the same
There is only one thing that makes fulfilling a dream impossible - the fear of failure.
Happiness sometimes descends to us as grace, but much more often it is victory and overcoming
Where we are expected, we always turn up right on time
When you have the same people around you - ... - it seems natural that they come into your life. And having entered your life, after a while they want to change it. And if you don’t become what they want you to be, they get offended. Everyone knows exactly how to live in the world. But for some reason no one can improve their own life
When you love, you can become anyone you want. When you love, there is absolutely no need to understand what is happening, because everything happens inside us, so a person is quite capable of turning into the wind
Love is the only thing that sharpens the mind, awakens creative imagination, that which cleanses us and frees us
Love is not a habit, not a compromise, not a doubt. This is not what romantic music teaches us. Love is... Without clarifications and definitions. Love - and don't ask. Just love
A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always find something to do and to insist on your own.
It doesn't matter what others think - because they will think something anyway. So relax.
Sometimes you need to go around the whole world to understand that a treasure is buried near your own home.
If you are able to see beauty, it is only because you carry beauty within yourself. For the world is like a mirror in which everyone sees their own reflection.
What happened once may never happen again. But what happened twice will certainly happen a third time.
When you really want something, the entire Universe will help make your wish come true.
If I do exactly the things that people expect from me, I will fall into their slavery.
Life is always waiting for the right moment to act.
Getting lost is the best way to find something interesting.
The darkest hour is before the dawn.
If a person is yours, then he is yours, and if he is drawn somewhere else, then nothing will hold him back, and he is not worth your nerves or attention.
Everything in the world is different manifestations of the same thing.
Everyone says anything in the back, but in the eyes - what is beneficial.
If love changes a person quickly, then despair changes even faster.
Where we are expected, we always turn up right on time.
Life can sometimes be surprisingly stingy - for whole days, weeks, months, years a person does not receive a single new sensation. And then he opens the door slightly - and a whole avalanche falls on him.
Waiting is the hardest thing.
Our angels are always with us, and often they use someone else's lips to tell us something.
Constantly feeling unhappy is an unaffordable luxury.
There are people who were born to go through life alone, this is not good or bad, this is life.
You should never give up on your dreams! Dreams feed our soul, just like food feeds our body. No matter how many times in life we have to experience disaster and see our hopes dashed, we must still continue to dream.
Sometimes you have to run to see who will run after you. Sometimes you have to speak softer to see who is really listening to you. Sometimes you have to take a step back to see who else is on your side.
Sometimes you have to make bad decisions to see who is with you when everything falls apart.
Once I found all the answers, all the questions changed.
We say the most important words in our lives silently
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Sometimes you have to die to start living.
People want to change everything and at the same time want everything to remain the same.
What you are looking for is also looking for you.
Always say what you feel and do what you think! Silence breaks destinies...
The person does everything the other way around. He is in a hurry to become an adult, and then sighs about his past childhood. He spends his health for money and immediately spends money on improving his health. He thinks about the future with such impatience that he neglects the present, which is why he has neither the present nor the future. Lives as if he would never die, and dies as if he had never lived.
Having reached the end, people laugh at the fears that tormented them at the beginning.
It sometimes happens that life separates two people - only to show both how important they are to each other.
Everything always ends well. If it ends badly, then it's not the end yet.
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too." - The Alchemist
“If there must be pain, let it come quickly. Because I have a whole life, and I need to live it as best as possible,” “I sat down on the banks of the Rio Piedra and cried.”
“It hurts to wait. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing what to do is the worst of suffering,” “I sat down on the banks of the Rio Piedra and cried.”
“If you only walk on sunny days, you will never reach your goal” - “Untitled”
“The simplest things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them,” “The Alchemist”
“When someone leaves, it is because someone else will soon come” - Zaire
“Whatever he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And usually he doesn’t know about it,” “The Alchemist”
“Loneliness has taught us how to live with other people. Anger has shown us the eternal value of peace. Boredom emphasized the importance of adventure and spontaneity. Silence has taught us to use words responsibly. Fatigue - so that you can understand the value of vigor. Illness - to highlight the blessing of good health. Fire - to understand the value of water. Earth - to understand the value of air. Death - to show us the importance of life,” - “The Book of the Warrior of Light”
“Don't give in to your fears. Otherwise you won’t be able to talk to your heart.” — “The Alchemist”
“I can choose to be either a victim of the world or a traveler in search of treasure. The only question is how I look at my life,” “11 minutes”
“The secret of life is to fall seven times and get up eight times,” The Alchemist
“Don’t listen to the spiteful comments of those friends who have never taken risks themselves, but can only notice the failures of others” - “11 minutes”
“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before it shows itself in all its glory” - “11 minutes”
“People can survive a week without water, two weeks without food, many years without a home, but not loneliness. This is the worst torture of all, the worst of all suffering." - "11 minutes"
“When you want something, the entire universe comes together to help you achieve it,” The Alchemist
“It is the possibility of making a dream come true that makes life interesting,” - “The Alchemist”
“We all live in our own world. But if you look at the starry sky, you will see that all the different worlds are collected in different constellations, solar systems and galaxies,” “Veronica Decides to Die”
“When I have nothing to lose, I have everything. When I stop being myself, I find myself” - “11 minutes”
“People want to change everything and at the same time they want everything to remain the same” - “The Devil and Senorita Prim”
“You were in heaven, but you didn’t realize it. It’s the same with most people in this world: they look for suffering in the most joyful places, because they think that they are not worthy of happiness” - “The Devil and Senorita Prim”
The best quotes from Paulo Coelho.
Paulo Coelho is a legendary Brazilian novelist and poet. The total circulation of his books in all languages has long exceeded 300 million.
His special style and thoughts in novels, anthologies and collections of short stories and parables help the reader look at life from a slightly different angle, see the small in the great, find the strength to love, love life and look at everything with optimism.
For you - a selection of some of the best quotes from Paulo Coelho, which may help you realize something important:
1. Our angels are always with us, and often they use someone else's lips to tell us something.
2. If you are able to see beauty, it is only because you carry beauty inside you. For the world is like a mirror in which everyone sees their own reflection.
3. If a person really wants something, then the whole Universe will help make his wish come true.
4. What happened once may never happen again. But what happened twice will certainly happen a third time.
5. When you really want something, the whole Universe will help make your wish come true.
6. Sometimes you have to run to see who will run after you. Sometimes you have to speak softer to see who is really listening to you. Sometimes you have to take a step back to see who else is on your side. Sometimes you have to make bad decisions to see who is with you when everything falls apart.
7. If I do exactly those things that people expect from me, I will fall into slavery to them.
8. True love does not require reciprocity, and those who want to receive a reward for their love are wasting their time.
9. Life is always waiting for that hour when the future depends only on your decisive actions.
10. Getting lost is the best way to find something interesting.
11. The darkest hour is before the dawn.
12. If you were discharged from a mental hospital, this does not mean that you have been cured. You just became like everyone else.
13. If a person is yours, then he is yours, and if he is drawn somewhere else, then nothing will hold him back, and he is not worth your nerves or attention.
14. Everyone says anything in the back, but in the eyes - what is beneficial.
15. If love changes a person quickly, then despair changes even faster.
16. Where we are expected, we always turn up right on time.
17. Life can sometimes be surprisingly stingy - for whole days, weeks, months, years a person does not receive a single new sensation. And then he opens the door slightly - and a whole avalanche falls on him.
18. Waiting is the hardest thing.
19. Having reached the end, people laugh at the fears that tormented them at the beginning.
20. If you dare to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
21. Constantly feeling unhappy is an unaffordable luxury.
22. There are people who were born to go through life alone, this is not bad or good, this is life.
23. You should never give up on your dreams! Dreams feed our soul, just like food feeds our body. No matter how many times in life we have to experience disaster and see our hopes dashed, we must still continue to dream.
24. Everything in the world is different manifestations of the same thing.
25. We say the most important words in our lives silently.
26. Sometimes you need to go around the whole world to understand that the treasure is buried near your own home.
27. People want to change everything and at the same time want everything to remain the same.
28. What you are looking for is also looking for you.
29. Always say what you feel and do what you think! Silence breaks destinies...
30. A person does everything the other way around. He is in a hurry to become an adult, and then sighs about his past childhood. He spends his health for money and immediately spends money on improving his health. He thinks about the future with such impatience that he neglects the present, which is why he has neither the present nor the future. Lives as if he would never die, and dies as if he had never lived.
31. Sometimes you have to die to start living.
32. You always need to know when the next stage of your life ends. The circle closes, closes
door, the chapter ends - it doesn’t matter what you call it, it’s important to leave in the past what already belongs to the past...
33. Sometimes it happens that life separates two people - only to show both how important they are to each other.
34. Once I found all the answers, all the questions changed.
35. In the end, everything must be fine. If something is bad, it means it’s not the end...
It is very common for people to invent things that do not exist, and not to learn the most useful lessons from what is in front of our eyes.
There are lesions. And no one in the world is safe from them, moreover, no one can avoid them. Therefore, it is better to fight to fulfill your dreams and lose several battles in this war than to be defeated and not even know what you fought for.
If I do exactly the things that people expect from me, I will fall into their slavery.
And the opportunity to satisfy your physical needs.
A crazy person is someone who lives in his own special world.
In sex, it is difficult for one person to deceive the other, because there everyone shows himself as he is.
What you are looking for is also looking for you.
Instead of cursing the place where you fell, you should try to discover what made you fall in the first place.
A person always has everything to make his dream come true.
A person must choose, not accept his fate.
The path that is determined by Your Fate is just as difficult as any other, with the only difference being that your heart will be there.
We always know which way is the best. But we follow the more usual one.
You should never give up on your dreams! Dreams feed our soul, just like food feeds our body. No matter how many times in life we have to experience disaster and see our hopes dashed, we must still continue to dream.
Where we are expected, we always turn up right on time.
Every person on earth, no matter what he does, plays a major role in the history of the world. And usually he doesn’t even know about it.
Everyone has a meaning in life; all you have to do is see it.
Life can sometimes be surprisingly stingy - for whole days, weeks, months, years a person does not receive a single new sensation. And then he opens the door slightly - and a whole avalanche falls on him.
We usually appreciate what comes from afar and rarely pay attention to the beauty around us.”
When you really want something, the entire Universe will help make your wish come true.
Just because you have been discharged from a mental hospital does not mean that you have been cured. You just became like everyone else.
I began to understand that the lack of meaning in life is only my fault.
The most profound changes - both in the human soul and in the life of society - occur in a very short time. When we least expect it, life challenges us to test our courage and our desire for change; and does not allow us to pretend that nothing is happening, or to make excuses that we are not ready yet. The call must be answered immediately.
Quotes from "Paulo Coelho"
There are people who were born to go through life alone, this is not good or bad, this is life.
Constantly feeling unhappy is an unaffordable luxury.
What seems something scary at the beginning of the journey turns out to be a mere trifle at the end.
Crazy people are not necessarily mentally ill, maybe they are just not like everyone else.
Sometimes you have to die to start living.
They don’t love for something, they love for no reason.
Having reached the end, people laugh at the fears that tormented them at the beginning.
Everything in the world is different manifestations of the same thing.
Quotes by Paulo Coelho
When you find something important in life, it doesn't mean you have to give up everything else.
If you are able to see beauty, it is only because you carry beauty within yourself. For the world is like a mirror in which everyone sees their own reflection.
Every day carries a piece of eternity.
The strongest love is the one that is not afraid to show weakness.
To live means to consciously live every moment, and not to spend days thinking about the meaning of life.
People want to change everything and at the same time want everything to remain the same.
Better live as if today is the first or last day of your life.
Life doesn't always give you a second try, and the gifts it sometimes gives you are best accepted.
If you are driven by the power of desire on the way to achieving your goal, then you will definitely achieve it.
Love is capable of molding us into every person, transforming our essence and character beyond recognition.
The Universe with its infinity and immensity is accessible to every person. This means that any wish will come true if you really want it. This is the true and hidden purpose of man on Mother Earth. – Paulo Coelho
Everything will invariably be excellent or just good. When things are bad, better times will soon come when the good will prevail over the bad.
The most significant meetings always take place at the turn of events, when the quality of things degenerates and fateful decisions can lead to no return. In an extreme situation, the brain automatically chooses the right path.
P. Coelho Everyone is dissatisfied with their life, but they are not able to improve their destiny as it should. The similarity with the gypsy is obvious - she predicts dreams masterfully, but the fortune teller does not have the courage, strength, talent or skill to turn them into reality.
Love is a rocky road. Either her path drags slowly upward to the heavens, then she quickly flies along a winding path into the abyss to hell.
Without risk there is no complete life. Preparedness for the unexpected gives impetus to accomplishments and actions, then we will get the desired result from life.
Thought is material. A person really wants it - the Universe and Cosmos will fulfill his dreams.
Read the continuation of beautiful quotes by P. Coelho on the pages:
The best way to weaken your opponent is to convince him that you are giving in to him and agreeing with his intentions.
The most profound changes - both in the human soul and in the life of society - occur in a very short time. When we least expect it, life challenges us to test our courage and our desire for change; and does not allow us to pretend that nothing is happening, or to make excuses that we are not ready yet. The call must be answered immediately.
If you are able to see beauty, it is only because you carry beauty within yourself. For the world is like a mirror in which everyone sees their own reflection.
You always need to know when the next stage of your life ends. A circle closes, a door closes, a chapter ends - no matter what you call it, it’s important to leave in the past what already belongs to the past...
A person must choose, not accept his fate.
The path that is determined by Your Fate is just as difficult as any other, with the only difference being that your heart will be there.
A crazy person is someone who lives in his own special world.
When God wants to drive a person crazy, he begins to fulfill all his desires.
The sages have long understood that our world was created in the image and likeness of paradise. The very existence of this world is a guarantee that there is another, more perfect one. Alchemist
In sex, it is difficult for one person to deceive the other, because there everyone shows himself as he is.
Losing people I've fallen in love with has hurt my soul before. Now I am convinced: no one can lose anyone, because no one belongs to anyone.
A person always has everything to make his dream come true.
No one lights a candle to keep it behind the door, because light exists to shine, to open people’s eyes, to show what miracles are around.
It’s good to give when asked, but it’s a hundred times better to entrust everything to someone who didn’t ask for anything.
In order to begin a spiritual life, you do not need to go to seminary, fast, be a teetotaler, and avoid women. It is enough to believe in God and accept Him.
Every person on earth, no matter what he does, plays a major role in the history of the world. And usually he doesn’t even know about it.
If I do exactly the things that people expect from me, I will fall into their slavery.
There is always some incompleteness in desire. For, when fulfilled, it ceases to be a desire.
Instead of cursing the place where you fell, you should try to discover what made you fall in the first place.
There are lesions. And no one in the world is safe from them, moreover, no one can avoid them. Therefore, it is better to fight to fulfill your dreams and lose several battles in this war than to be defeated and not even know what you fought for.
Yes, happiness sometimes comes to us as grace, but much more often it is victory and overcoming.
To live life to the fullest, you need to be in constant motion, and only then will one day be different from the next.
With death, nothing changes... Others took the place of those who were out of action, and life went on.
A person does not understand that, having realized the inevitability of death, he will be able to dare to do more, he will be able to go further in his daily conquests - for if Death is inevitable, then he has nothing to lose.
It is in him, in the present, that the whole secret is. If you give it the attention it deserves, you can improve it. And if you improve your current situation, you will make the future favorable. Don’t worry about the future, live in the present, and let your every day pass as commanded by the Law. Believe that the Almighty takes care of his children. Every day carries within itself a piece of eternity.
The very moment we enter the path we have chosen, all other roads disappear.
No heart suffers when it goes in search of its dreams, for every moment of this search is a meeting with God and Eternity.
The fear of making a mistake is the door that locks us into the castle of mediocrity. If we overcome this fear, we will take an important step towards our freedom.
Most primitive civilizations have the custom of burying their dead in the fetal position. “He will be born again, in another life, and we must put him in the same position in which he came into this world,” they say. For these civilizations, death was just another step on the universal ladder. Gradually the world lost its quiet acceptance of death. But no matter what we think, or what we do, or what we believe: each of us will die one day. It is better to do as the old Yakwi Indians did: treat death as a consultant. Always ask, “What am I going to do before I die?”
Money brings... no, not happiness, but money.
“Incompatibility does not mean showing a lack of elitism” (c)
Sometimes you need to go around the whole world to understand that a treasure is buried near your own home.
Constantly feeling unhappy is an unaffordable luxury.
Sex is the art of curbing the unbridled.
“The earth produces enough to satisfy needs, but not enough to satisfy greed.”
What happened once may never happen again. But what happened twice will certainly happen a third time.
The fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself. And not a single heart suffers when it goes in search of its dreams, for every moment of these searches is a meeting with God and Eternity.
True love does not require reciprocity, and those who want to receive a reward for their love are wasting their time.
There is only one thing that makes fulfilling a dream impossible - the fear of failure.
If things don't go well, there are only two explanations: either your persistence is being tested, or you need to change direction. To discover which of these explanations is correct - especially since they are opposite - use silence and prayer. Gradually things will become wonderfully pure until you have enough power to choose.
Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.
You have to take risks. The miracle of life can only be fully realized when we are prepared for the unexpected to happen.
A person allows himself the luxury of being crazy only when the conditions for this are created for him.
Everything will happen as planned by God... Troubles happen in our lives, we cannot prevent them. But they happen for a reason. - For what reason? – This is a question that we cannot answer either before or during adversity. Only after having overcome them do we understand why they were needed.
To live life to the fullest, you need to be in constant motion, and only then will one day be different from the next
“I live not in the past or in the future, but now, and only the present minute interests me. If you could always remain in the present, you would be the happiest of mortals... Life would then be an eternal and never-ending holiday, for there would be nothing in it except the present moment.”
There is no escape from unhappiness. We can find a reason, blame other people, imagine what our life would be like if trouble had not happened. But all this does not matter: the misfortune has already happened. From this moment we must forget the fear that it caused in us and begin our rebirth.
Each of us is responsible for the feelings we experience, and we have no right to blame the other for this.
Every day God sends us - along with the sun - the opportunity to change everything that makes us unhappy. And every day we try to pretend as if we do not notice this possibility, as if it does not exist at all, as if today is in every way similar to yesterday and indistinguishable from tomorrow. But those who look closely at their day will find this magical moment.
Once I found all the answers, all the questions changed.
Sometimes it is easier to achieve an answer by remaining silent than by asking questions.
Why on earth did it suddenly occur to me to save the whole world? After all, I’m hardly able to save myself yet.
In fairy tales, you kiss a toad and it becomes a handsome prince. in life it’s the other way around - you kiss the prince and he becomes a disgusting toad.
This strange thing is LOVE... Yesterday you didn’t know a person yet... and today you can’t live a day without him... you think about him... you wait until you can say a few words to him, or write something... and so on day after day ... But you haven’t even seen this person even once... You just exchanged photographs, gave some advice... and then... and then you suddenly realized that... you need this person more than anything... even more than you need yourself... You probably remember the legend that at one time the Gods divided people into two halves... and for a person to be happy, he must find his half... Here is the same case... You are the same half that I was looking for... I searched for a long time... and found ... I LOVE YOU... Unfortunately, I can’t be with you right now... and this oppresses me no less than you... And yet, imagine our first meeting... to this melody... standing on the bridge... holding hands... looking into each other’s eyes... just stand there, say nothing... and so everything is clear...
Dreams are the language in which the Lord speaks to us. When it is one of the world's languages, I can translate from it. But if the Lord speaks to you in the language of your soul, it will be intelligible to you alone.
When a person follows the path of his destiny, he often has to change direction. Sometimes external circumstances turn out to be stronger, and he has to give in. This is all part of the lesson.
Life is very fast; in an instant we fall from heaven to the very underworld.
The duel between Good and Evil takes place every second in the heart of every person, for the heart is the battlefield where angels and demons fight
Everything has a price, but the price is always relative. When we follow our dreams, we can give the impression to others that we are unhappy and unsuccessful. But it doesn't matter what others think. Joy in our heart is important.
Change only happens when we go against what we are used to.
Madness is the inability to communicate one's perceptions to others.
Two deaths cannot happen... Does it matter whether it happens tomorrow or any other day? Every day is suitable to be lived or to be the last.
The world is a joint dream of the gods.
I would like to have a person next to me, in whose presence my heart would beat evenly and regularly, a person next to whom I would feel calm, because I would not be afraid of losing him the next day. And then time would flow more slowly, and we could simply remain silent, knowing that we still have a whole life ahead of us to talk...
Dying, following Your Destiny, is much better than accepting death, like thousands of people who do not even suspect the existence of the Path.
The fear of making a mistake is the door that locks us into the castle of mediocrity. If we overcome this fear, we will take an important step towards our freedom
Everything always turns out well. If things don't go well, it's because you haven't reached the end yet.
There are times in life when God requires obedience from us. But sometimes He calls us to struggle to test our will. In this way He makes us feel His love.
Being consistent means always wearing the same sock.
“There is only one way to comprehend... Act. The sages have long understood that our world was created in the image and likeness of paradise. The very existence of this world is a guarantee that there is another, more perfect one. The Almighty created it so that people could see the spiritual through the visible and marvel at the wonders of their own wisdom. This is what I call Action.”
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But the worst suffering is not knowing what decision to make.
Nowadays, people have lost interest in life: they don’t get bored, don’t cry, they just wait for time to pass. They gave up the fight, and life gave up on them. This threatens you too: act, move forward boldly, but do not give up on life.
Every day, every hour of our life is a moment of the Glorious Battle. Gradually we will learn to joyfully perceive and enjoy every moment of life.
Fear ends where the inevitable begins.
If your old life oppresses you, quickly forget about it... Come up with a new story for your life and believe in it. Remember only your victories, and this will help you achieve what you want.
Living life and achieving your destiny means going through a whole series of stages, the meaning of which is often beyond our understanding.
Both men and women are absolutely vulnerable to the power of sex, because there pleasure and fear are equally important.
To live a real life, you need to take risks.
When we want something, we make a choice and pay the price. To follow your dreams, you have to pay a price. This may require us to give up old habits, which may cause us problems and frustration. But no matter how high the price, it is never as high as what we pay for not being able to live our personal destiny.
They gave up the fight, and life gave up on them.
Some events happen in our lives in order to return us to the true path of Destiny. Others are needed so that we can apply our knowledge in life. And some events are meant to teach us.
There is nothing completely wrong in this world. Even a broken clock shows the exact time twice a day.
Do you see the Fifth Mountain? – asked Elijah. “No matter from which side you look at it, it will seem different, although it is still the same mountain.” That’s how everything that surrounds us is: these are different faces of the same God.
Rich people don’t throw money away – only poor people behave this way.
Man is a fragile creature, and therefore always tries to hide from himself the great immutability of death. He is unaware that it is she who encourages him to create the best that there is in life.
When we start thinking about what decision to make, as a rule we do nothing at all. Because acting with a premeditated intention requires much more courage than a spontaneous impulse...
No one owns anything, everything in the world is illusory and unsteady - and this applies to both material wealth and spiritual values. A person who has ever lost something that he thought would belong to him forever (and this happened to me often) eventually learns that nothing belongs to him.
If you are still living, it is because you have not yet arrived at the place you are supposed to come to.
They love because they love. Love does not accept arguments.
It’s dangerous to try to be like everyone else: it causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. It is dangerous to want to be like everyone else, because this means violating nature, going against the laws of God, who in all the forests and groves of the world did not create even two identical leaves.
We always know which path is the best, but we follow the most familiar one.
Once upon a time, extraordinary people lived on earth. They had four arms, four legs, two heads. They were wonderful! It was a man and a woman merged into one. There was no more beautiful and powerful creature in the entire Universe.
