Paulo Coelho Pilgrimage Quotes & Sayings

Life is a long pilgrimage from fear to love. — Paulo Coelho

A passage from John Bunyan: Although I have been through all that I have, I do not regret the many hardships I met, because it was they who brought me to the place I wished to reach. Now all I have is this sword and I give it to whoever wishes to continue his pilgrimage. I carry with me the marks and scars of battles - they are the witnesses of what I suffered and the rewards of what I conquered. — Paulo Coelho

One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace. — Benito Mussolini

When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long for me to write this book?" Because my dream, since I was 10 years old, was to be a writer. I said, I have to revisit my life using a metaphor, and the metaphor was basically this boy that has a dream and has to go far away to realize that his dream is close to him. — Paulo Coelho

History has now been for the first time systematically considered, and has been found, like other phenomena, subject to invariable laws. — Auguste Comte

If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run. — Abraham Maslow

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company. — Bill Gates

My turning point was my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. It was then that I, who had dedicated most of my life to penetrate the 'secrets' of the universe, realized that there are no secrets. Life is and will always be a mystery. — Paulo Coelho

Call me Tanny, please. Montana is what my Master calls me. — Sean Michael

Your personal devil tries three classical approaches : a threat, a promise, and an attack on your weak side. — Paulo Coelho

A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher. — David Bergen

Liam stared at her, his gaze glittering hot with something she was afraid to identify because it made her knees weak and she couldn't breathe from the intensity and pace of her heart pounding away in her chest.
He wanted to kiss her.
He didn't want to want to kiss her - she could read that in his expression, as well - but she knew he did. And right, then. Cop or not - mistake that it would be - she wanted him to kiss her, too. — Kay Stockham

There is a right way and a wrong way to make contact with God. — Billy Graham

Do not blame God for what men have done. — Jill Eileen Smith

Even if I were not able to find my sword, the pilgrimage along the Road to Santiago was going to help me to find myself. — Paulo Coelho

Synchronicities, epiphanies, peak, and mystical experiences are all cases in which creativity breaks through the barriers of the self and allows awareness to flood through the whole domain of consciousness. It is the human mind operating, for a moment, in its true order and moving through orders of increasing subtlety, reaching past the source of mind and matter into creativity itself. — F. David Peat

You see, during my pilgrimage it became increasingly apparent that I wasn't happy and I had to do something about it - stop making excuses. I realized that you don't have to jump through a series of complicated hoops to achieve a goal. You can just look at a mountain and get a connection with God; you don't have to understand the mountain to feel that. — Paulo Coelho

You have the right to remain silent. Otherwise, anything you say might be misquoted and used against you. — Jill Shalvis

I've been so caught up with mapping out a picture-perfect "forever" that I'm completely neglecting my present, which I have far more control over anyway. — Daria Snadowsky

The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that's not the aim of boats. — Paulo Coelho

When you are moving toward an objective," said Petrus, "it is very important to pay attention to the road. It is the road that teaches us the best way to get there, and the road enriches us as we walk its length. — Paulo Coelho

He's too reasonable," Janice said.

"I agree. But the president's campaign advisors understand controlled violence. They realize that war unites us, brings us together. Yellow ribbons, Support Our Troops, all that. Little wars help win elections, provided they're short. — Phil Harvey