Quotes from Paulo Coelho

A Warrior of Light values a child's eyes because they are able to look at the world without bitterness. When he wants to find out if the person beside him is worthy of his trust, he tries to see him as a child would

You shouldn't have asked, I said. Love doesn't ask many questions, because if we stop to think we become fearful. It's an inexplicable fear; it's difficult even to describe it. Maybe it's the fear of being scorned, of not being accepted, or of breaking the spell. It's ridiculous, but that's the way it is. That's why you don't ask-you act. As you've said many times, you have to take risks.

You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.

Fortunate are those who take the first steps.

Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.

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

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

We are all a part of the divine spark. All have a purpose in creation and that purpose is called Love. That love, however, shouldn't be concentrated in just one person, it should be scattered throughout the world, waiting to be discovered. Wake up that love. What is gone cannot return. What is about to arrive needs to be recognized.

And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us.

The energy of hatred won't get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. You've got to find the treasure, so that everything you have learned along the way can make sense.

and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

you only know yourself when you go beyond your limits

God hides the fires of hell within paradise.

Sorrows do not last forever when we are journeying towards the thing we have always wanted.

To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.

It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

Don't allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.

Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.

Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

The simplest things in life are the most extraordinary. Let them reveal themselves.

I think that if we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we're alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.

If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.

Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested.