The best quotes by Paulo Coelho

Poet and writer, born sunday august 24, 1947 in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
You can find this author also in Novels.

Posted by: Marilů Rossi
When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
Paulo Coelho
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    Every warrior of light has felt afraid of going into battle.
    Every warrior of light has, at some time in the past, lied or betrayed someone.
    Every warrior of light has trodden a path that was not his.
    Every warrior of light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons.
    Every warrior of light has, at least once, believed that he was not a warrior of
    light.
    Every warrior of light has failed in his spiritual duties.
    Every warrior of light has said 'yes' when he wanted to say 'no'.
    Every warrior of light has hurt someone he loved.
    That is why he is a warrior of light, because he has been through all this and
    yet has never lost hope of being better than he is.
    Paulo Coelho
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      From now on, and for a few hundred years, the universe will help the warriors of light, and will obstacle those who have prejudice.
      The energy of the earth has to be renewed.
      Ideas need space.
      The body and soul feel the need of new challenges.
      The future has turned into the present, and all dreams, a part from those that imply preconceptions, will have the possibility to manifest themselves.
      What is important shall persist; what is useless shall vanish.
      But the warrior knows that it isn't his business to judge the dreams of the nex person, and doesn't waste time criticizing other people's decisions.
      To believe in his path, he doesn't have to prove that the one chosen by the other is wrong.
      Paulo Coelho
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        'It's odd,' says the warrior of light to himself. 'I have met so many people who, at the first opportunity, try to show their very worst qualities. They hide their inner strength behind aggression; they hide their fear of loneliness behind an air of independence. They do not believe in their own abilities, but are constantly trumpeting their virtues.'
        The warrior reads these messages in many of the men and women he meets. He is never taken in by appearances and makes a point of remaining silent when people try to impress him. And he uses the occasion to correct his own faults, for other people make an excellent mirror.
        A warrior takes every opportunity to teach himself.
        Paulo Coelho
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          Posted by: Roxanne ...
          You don't need to pretend you're strong, you mustn't always show that everything is going fine, you can't worry about what others think, if you should feel the need to cry do so because crying is good, to the last tear, because only then you can go back to smiling.
          Paulo Coelho
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            Writing os one of the most solitary activities in the world. Once every two years, I sit in front of my computer, I observe my soul's unknown ocean and I see a few islands - ideas which are developing and that are ready to be explored. And so I take my boat - its name is "Word" - and I choose to sail towards the closest of them. On the journey, I come across currents, winds and storms, but I go on rowing, growing more tired. I am conscious of being off route, of not having on the horizon the island I wanted to reach anymore. All the same there is no way of going back: I have to continue anyway, or I shall find myself lost amidst the ocean. At that moment a series of terrifying images cross my mind: I that spend the rest of my life talking of previous success, or sourly crticizing new writers for the simple fact of not having the courage of publishing any new material. But wasn't my dream that of being a writer? Therefore I must go on creating sentences, paragraphs, chapters and Wrtiting to exhaustion, without letting myself be paralized by success, by defeat, by traps along the way.
            Shaken by such absurd thoughts, I find within myself a strength and courage of which I ignored the existence: they help me to adventure to the boundless side of my soul. I let myself be carried by the currents and I end up anchoring my boat in the proximity of the island to where I have been taken. I spend days and nights wrtiting what I see, asking myself why am I acting this way, repeating to myself every moment why this effort has become useless, that I have no nedd to prove anything to anyone, that I have already obtained what I wanted and a lot more of what I could possibly dream of.
            Paulo Coelho
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