3,188 Quotes by Paulo Coelho

Beauty is present in all creation, but the danger lies in the fact that we allow ourselves to be influenced by what people think.We deny our own beauty because others can't or won't recognize it. We try to imitate what we see around us. We try to be what other people think of as 'pretty' & little by little, our soul fades.We forget the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

God is love, generosity and forgiveness, if we believe in this we will never allow our weakness to paralyze us.

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous, because I've known that every hour was a part of the dream that I would find it. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, I've discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve.

If evil exists its to be found in our fears.

This last week has been a little hell for both of us simply because I didn't understand my own feelings. And because I can't understand them, I blame her for provoking in me feelings that make my world seem suddenly unsafe.

Un guerriero della luce presta attenzione agli occhi di un bambino. Perché quegli occhi sanno vedere il mondo senza amarezza.

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.

Then I realize that words like "optimism" and "hope" which appear in all those self-help books that claim they'll make us more confident and better to cope with life, are just that: words.