Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Coelho

When we love, it is not necessary to understand what is happening outside, because everything happens inside us instead.

Paulo Coelho

I love you like a river that begins as a solitary trickle in the mountains and gradually grows and joins other rivers until, after a certain point, it can flow around any obstacle in order to get where it wants.

Paulo Coelho

I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks. I love you like a river that gives water to the thirsty and takes people where they want to go.

Paulo Coelho

No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you to seek out other writers but to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm.

Paulo Coelho

The light of love flows out of my soul, but it can go nowhere because it's blocked by pain. I could inhale and exhale every morning for the rest of my life, but that wouldn't solve anything.

Paulo Coelho

Love simply is. That is the testament of Athena or Sherine or Hagia Sofia - love is. No definitions. Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.

Paulo Coelho

My aim is to understand love. I know how alive I felt when I was in love, and I know that everything I have now, however interesting it might seem, doesn't really excited me. But love is a terrible thing: I've seen my girlfriends suffer and I don't want the same thing to happen to me. ... Although my aim is to understand love, and although I suffer to think of people to whom I gave my heart, I see that those who touched my heart failed to arouse my body, and that those who aroused my body failed to touch my heart.

Paulo Coelho

Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.

Paulo Coelho

We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.

Paulo Coelho

Only those who find life, find treasures.

Paulo Coelho

I think it is a problem of our society that we don't enjoy (ourselves.) We have these values, like, you have to be rich, you have to get a diploma, you have to work hard, otherwise you are useless, you are nothing but a pariah. And the book asks, 'Is it true? This is what my mom told me, but is it true?

Paulo Coelho

I receive your love and I give you mine. Not the love of a man for a woman, not the love of a father for a child, not the love of God for his creatures. But a love with no name and no explanation like a river that cannot explain why it follows a particular course, but simply flows onwards. A love that asks for nothing and gives nothing in return; it is simply there. I will never be yours and you will never be mine; nevertheless, I can honestly say: I love you

Paulo Coelho

The Good Fight is the one that we fight in the name of our dreams.

Paulo Coelho

Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees

Paulo Coelho

As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.

Paulo Coelho

Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.

Paulo Coelho

It is not necessary to move mountains in order to prove one's faith.

Paulo Coelho

Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God.

Paulo Coelho

No matter how you feel today, get up, dress up & show up

Paulo Coelho

Only cowards hide behind silence.

Paulo Coelho

Sometimes the warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once. 'There is a bridge that links what I do with what I would like to do,' he thinks. Slowly, his dreams take over his everyday life, and then he realises that he is ready for the thing he always wanted. Then all that is needed is a little daring, and his two lives become one.

Paulo Coelho

I love you like a river that understands that it must learn to flow differently over waterfalls and to rest in the shallows. I love you because we are all born in the same place, at the same source, which keeps us provided with a constant supply of water. And so, when we feel weak, all we have to do is wait a little. The spring returns, and the winter snows melt and fill us with new energy.

Paulo Coelho

For the Warrior of Light there is no such thing as an impossible love. He is not intimidated by silence, indifference or rejection. He knows that, behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire. Without love, he is nothing.

Paulo Coelho

Love always triumphs over what we call death. That's why there's no need to grieve for our loved ones, because they continue to be loved and remain by our side.

Paulo Coelho

The wise are wise only because they love.

Paulo Coelho

Love simply is. ... Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.

Paulo Coelho

It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.

Paulo Coelho

There is only one way to learn. It's through action.

Paulo Coelho

Follow your dreams, transform your life.

Paulo Coelho

I am going to sit here in the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. And if you go away, I will follow you--until you tell me to go away. Then I'll leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life..

Paulo Coelho

This is the present moment. Learn how to gobble it up without fear or guilt.

Paulo Coelho

Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.

Paulo Coelho

A life without a cause is a life without effect.