Paulo Coelho People Quotations [Page 2]

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

Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives.

No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.

Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.

Every human being should know two languages: the language of society and the language of signs. One serves to communicate with other people, the other serves to understand God's messages.

and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.

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

One of many ways to be useful is to inspire people to forget some rules imposed by society. IMPORTANT rules are dictated by our hearts.

If we resist the temptation to allow other people to define who we are, then we will gradually be able to let the sun inside our own soul shine forth.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

The soul of the world is nourished by people's Happiness.

If everyone there just lived their lives and let others do the same, God would be in every moment, in every grain of mustard, in the fragment of cloud that is there and then gone the following moment. God was there and yet people believed they still had to go on looking, because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

Choose the mountain you want to climb: don't pay attention to what other people say, such as "that one's more beautiful" or "this one's easier". You'll be spending lots of energy and enthusiasm to reach your objective, so you're the only one responsible and you should be sure of what you're doing.

The best way to live a miserable life is to pay attention to what other people are saying about you.

Philosophy can't build bridges, but can encourage people to cross them.

...in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other... People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.

Don't think about what you’ll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it.

People are all crazy... but the craziest are the ones who never allow themselves to be crazy.

I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.

Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.

Those who never take risks can only see other people's failures.

Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem

If you don't care about what people think, you already passed the first step of success.

Tolerance and compassion are qualities of fearless people.

God has a plan for you, you are here in this world because God has a plan for you. And the problem is that people start listening to other people and they forget to listen to their heart and to see what is the plan that God has for you.

How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.

Why do so many people chose to spend their whole life destroying paths they didn't even want to follow, instead of following the one path that would lead them somewhere.

There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.

Tell your story: yes, tell your story! Give your example. Tell everyone that it's possible, and other people will then have the courage to face their own mountains.

People make a lot of effort not to remember, not to accept their immense magical potential.

Face your path with courage, don't be scared of people's criticism. And, above all, don't let yourself get paralyzed by your own criticism.

In reality things reveal nothing to us. It is people who, by looking into at things, discover a way of penetrating the Soul of the World.

The Road to Santiago is the road of ordinary people.