Paulo Coelho Happiness Quotations

If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy.

Everything in life is about sharing; it is part of the human condition

Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Treat every challenge as a lesson, every mistake you make as a blessing and move on.

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

A life without a cause is a life without effect.

The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.

If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.

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

Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.

There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

You are what you believe yourself to be.

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.

really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

Join with those who sing songs, tell stories, enjoy life ... because happiness is contagious. Join those who walk with their heads high even when they have tears in their eyes. Avoid those who ... have never shed a tear

The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory

When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?

Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you

close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.