Paulo Quotes & Sayings

He analyses every strategy and asks: "what would I do if I had to fight myself?" He thus discover his weak points. — Paulo Coelho

The Marquis De Sade said that the most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage. When a boss humiliates an employee, or a man humiliates his wife, he is merely being cowardly or taking his revenge on life, they are people who have never dared to look into the depths of their soul, never attempted to know the origin of that desire to unleash the wild beast, or to understand that sex, pain and love are all extreme experiences. Only those who know those frontiers know life; everything else is just passing the time, repeating the same tasks, growing old and dying without ever having discovered what we are doing here. — Paulo Coelho

It's inevitable to lose from time to time. The point is: don't get used to defeats. — Paulo Coelho

The great conquest is the result of small, unnoticed victories. — Paulo Coelho

It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation. — Paulo Freire

The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world. The more completely they accept the passive role impressed on them, the more they tend simply to adapt to the world as it is and to the fragmented view of reality deposited in them. — Paulo Freire

I want to believe what you're saying. It won't change anything; but at least I won't feel so weak, so incapable. — Paulo Coelho

Take risks, fall, get hurt and then take more risks. Stay away from those who affirm truths, who criticise those who do not think like them, people who have never once taken a step unless they were sure they would be respected — Paulo Coelho

A responsible Warrior is one who has proved able to observe and to learn. — Paulo Coelho

The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far ... — Paulo Coelho

He is also wary of people who think they know the path. — Paulo Coelho

What are you good at?" asked the owner.
"Going after what I believe in." That was the only possible reply; she had spent her life in pursuit of what she believed in. The only problem was that she believed in something different everyday. — Paulo Coelho

Love one another, but let's try not to possess one another. — Paulo Coelho

Life always teaches us more than the Road to Santiago...But we don't have much faith in what life teaches us. — Paulo Coelho

When we want something, we have to have a clear purpose in mind for the thing that we want. The only reason for seeking a reward is to know what to do with that reward — Paulo Coelho

Time that never ends, that never passes, that remains in the present, where all of life's secrets lie. — Paulo Coelho

A Warrior of the Light does not waste his time listening to provocations; he has a destiny to fulfill. — Paulo Coelho

But a warrior is never distracted. — Paulo Coelho

Whenever a religion tightens it's rules, a significant number of people break away and go in search of more freedom in their search for spiritual contact. — Paulo Coelho

We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity ... the reading of a text is a transaction between the reader and the text, which mediates the encounter between the reader and writer. It is a composition between the reader and the writer in which the reader "rewrites" the text making a determined effort not to betray the author's spirit. — Paulo Freire

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time. — Paulo Coelho

Only when l know, the truth will set me free! — Paulo Coelho

A wise person is full of questions. A dull person is full of answers. — Paulo Coelho

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have. — Paulo Coelho

Nd love is not swayed by opinions; love accepts its companion unconditionally and allows each to grow in his or her own way — Paulo Coelho

I feel like saying: Yes, I did something I shouldn't have done and yet I don't feel the tiniest bit guilty, just afraid of being found out. — Paulo Coelho

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that. — Paulo Coelho

He who knows the treasure he has: his days and hours of life, which can change everything which goes on around him. — Paulo Coelho

Love does not to be understood. It needs only to be shown. — Paulo Coelho

Maybe these desert birds could explain to him the meaning of love without ownership. — Paulo Coelho

Everyone is trying to control their own unhappiness. — Paulo Coelho

Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen. — Paulo Coelho

We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as the years accumulate, so too do the layers of prejudice, fear and guilt. There comes a time when our personal calling is so deeply buried in our soul as to be invisible. But know that it's still there. — Paulo Coelho

I too tried to look at matter from a more generous perspective: I didn't succeed. but now I've gained courage; I've reached the depths and discovered that there is light at the bottom. — Paulo Coelho

But the great wisdom of life is to realize that we can be the masters of the things that try to enslave us — Paulo Coelho

If you never take a risk, you will never
know what changes you need to make. — Paulo Coelho

The art of love is like your painting, it requires technique, patience, and above all, practice by the couple. It requires boldness, the courage to go beyond what people conventionally call making love. — Paulo Coelho

She wanted to die of orgasmic pleasure, thinking about and realizing everything that had always been forbidden to her: she begged him to touch her, to force her, to use her in any way he wanted. — Paulo Coelho

Whenever he reads articles in newspapers or magazines written by politicians using global warming or the destruction of the environment for their electoral campaigns, he thinks:
How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing.
Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us? Because "Saving the planet" gives a sense of power, action and nobility. Whereas "not letting the planet destroy us" might lead us to feelings of despair and impotence, and to a realisation of just how very limited our capabilities are. — Paulo Coelho

The Warrior of the Light needs time to (her)self. And (s)he uses that time for rest, contemplation, and contact with the Soul of the World. Even in the midst of a battle, (s)he manages to meditate. — Paulo Coelho

From the first, the act of conquest, which reduces persons to the status of things, is necrophilia — Paulo Freire

If we accept all that is wrong about us - and despite it, believe that we are deserving of a happy life - then we will have thrown open an immense window that will allow love to enter. — Paulo Coelho

It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on. — Paulo Coelho

There are things in life, though, which, however we look at them, are valid for everyone. Like love, for example. — Paulo Coelho

Elegance lies not in the clothes we wear, but in the way we wear them. — Paulo Coelho

If you're asking me if I like your company, the answer is yes. If, on the other hand, you're asking me if I could live without you, the answer is also yes. — Paulo Coelho

Like children, the insane will not budge until their desires have been satisfied. — Paulo Coelho

We all harbour a great sadness in our soul — Paulo Coelho

I closed my eyes and let the music flow through me, cleansing my soul of all fear and sin and reminding me that I am always better than I think and stronger than I believe. — Paulo Coelho

If I must fall, may it be from a high place. — Paulo Coelho

And madness? Madness is the inability to communicate. — Paulo Coelho

- What are we doing on Earth? — Paulo Coelho

This was freedom; to feel what the heart desired with no thought to the opinion of the rest ... She was free, for love liberates. — Paulo Coelho

The best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. This doesn't mean that we should do what others expect us to do, but it helps us to understand ourselves better. — Paulo Coelho

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you. — Paulo Coelho

There are no risk in Love, as you'll find out for yourself. People have been searching for and finding each other for thousands of years. Suddenly, he realised that the might be wrong. There was always a risk, a single risk: that one person might meet with more thatn one Soulmate in the same incarnation ... — Paulo Coelho

He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence. — Paulo Coelho

The story of one person is the story of all of humanity. — Paulo Coelho

There is no better time than the autumn to begin forgetting the things that trouble us, allowing them to fall away like dried leaves. There is no better time to dance again, to make the most of every crumb of sunlight and warm body and soul with its rays before it falls asleep and becomes only a dim light bulb in the skies. — Paulo Coelho

A bow has no conscience: it is a prolongation of the hand and desire of the archer. It can serve to kill or to meditate. Therefore, always be clear about your intentions. A bow is flexible, but it has its limits. Stretching it beyond its capacity will break it or exhaust the hand holding it. Therefore, try to be in harmony with your instrument and never ask more than it can give. — Paulo Coelho

That man sitting on the steps made me understand that I was important to the world and to the history of my country. I felt necessary, and that's the best feeling a human being can have. — Paulo Coelho

All the world's roads lead to the heart of the Warrior. — Paulo Coelho

The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.
The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho

But, then, every gesture made by a human being is sacred and full of consequences, and that makes me think even more about what I am doing. — Paulo Coelho

The person who does not make a choice dies in the eyes of the Lord, even though he continues to breathe and to walk about the streets. For a man has to choose, therein lies his strength: in the power of his decisions. — Paulo Coelho

You might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here. — Paulo Coelho

The war seemed a curse. But now it's a blessing, because it brought you to me. — Paulo Coelho

I don't know the secret of success - but the secret of failure is to always try to follow the will of others. — Paulo Coelho

P53-knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, the restless,impatient,continuing,hopeful inquiry beings pursue with the world and with others. — Paulo Freire

Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. — Paulo Coelho

When you want something, the whole universe conspires to help you. — Paulo Coelho

The path to wisdom is not being afraid to make mistakes. — Paulo Coelho

Swearing when in heavy traffic. — Paulo Coelho

Saturn takes twenty-nine years to return to the point in the sky where it was at the moment we were born. Until that happens, everything seems possible, our dreams can come true, and any walls hemming us in can still be broken down. When Saturn completes this cycle, it puts an end to any romanticism. Choices become definitive and it's nearly impossible to change direction. — Paulo Coelho

When the songs of your heart start singing, you should listen ... for its harmony will bring you happiness and the melody is the voice of your true spirit. — Paulo Coelho

Many people don't allow themselves to love ... because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past. — Paulo Coelho

A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world, until some factor, sometimes serious, sometimes superficial, depending on the individual circumstances, forces him to create his own reality. It can develop into a state of complete alienation, what we call catatonia, but people do occasionally recover, at least enough to allow the patient to work and lead a near-normal life. It all depends on one thing: environment. — Paulo Coelho

A sunset is always more beautiful when it is covered with irregularly shaped clouds, because only then can it reflect the many colors out of which dreams and poetry are made. Pity — Paulo Coelho

Each human being has his own sexual profile, and should exercise it without guilt - provided he does not oblige others to exercise it with him. — Paulo Coelho

- Oscar Wilde said that we always destroy the thing we love the most. And it is true. The simple possibility of achieving that which we desire causes the soul of the common man to be filled with guilt. He looks around, and sees many others who have not succeeded, and so he thinks he does not deserve it. He forgets everything he overcame, all he suffered, everything he had to renounce in order to come this far. I know many people who, when they are within reach of their Personal Legend, make a series of silly mistakes and do not attain their objective - when it was just one step away. — Paulo Coelho

They would congratulate themselves every morning on keeping their integrity, and blame themselves each night for that missed opportunity. — Paulo Coelho

... CEOs are the ghost writers of the political discourse ... — Paulo Da Costa

The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions. — Paulo Coelho

Libertarian action must recognize this dependence as a weak point and must attempt through reflection and action to transform it into independence. However, not even the best-intentioned leadership can bestow independence as a gift. The liberation of the oppressed is a liberation of women and men, not things. Accordingly, while no one liberates himself by his own efforts alone, neither is he liberated by others. Liberation, a human phenomenon, cannot be achieved by semihumans. Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them. — Paulo Freire

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike. — Paulo Coelho

The girl forgives you, not because shehas become a saint but because she can no longer bear to carry this burden of hatred. Hating is very wearisome. — Paulo Coelho

If you have a work instead of a job, every day is holiday — Paulo Coelho

No one goes anywhere alone, least of all into exile - not even those who arrive physically alone, unaccompanied by family, spouse, children, parents, or siblings. No one leaves his or her world without having been transfixed by its roots, or with a vacuum for a soul. We carry with us the memory of many fabrics, a self soaked in our history, our culture; a memory, sometimes scattered, sometimes sharp and clear, of the streets of our childhood, of our adolescence; the reminiscence of something distant that suddenly stands out before us, in us, a shy gesture, an open hand, a smile lost in a time of misunderstanding, a sentence, a simple sentence possibly now forgotten by the one who had said it. — Paulo Freire

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

The important thing is to keep the fire in your heart and be strong to overcome hard moments. — Paulo Coelho

During her life Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horrors in other people's lives as if they were genuinely trying to help them, but the truth was that they took pleasure in the suffering of others, because that made them believe they were happy and that life had been generous with them. She hated that kind of person, and she wasn't going to give the young man an opportunity to take advantage of her state in order to mask his own frustrations. — Paulo Coelho

Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the same fate awaits those who believe those promises. — Paulo Coelho

P20 - The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus to domesticate men and women. — Paulo Freire

It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you. — Paulo Coelho

Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end. — Paulo Coelho

It was a really beautiful view, and Brida recalled that spirits preferred such places. — Paulo Coelho

Time and the things that are imprisoned in time's memory — Paulo Coelho

Better to go hungry than to be alone. Because when you're alone - and I'm talking here
about an enforced solitude not of our choosing - it's as if you were no longer part of the
human race — Paulo Coelho

But I'd like to see the castles in the towns where they live, the boy explained. — Paulo Coelho

I had to test your courage," the stranger said. "Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the Language of the World." The boy — Paulo Coelho