Paulo Coelho Quotations | Page 4

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.

First quality: you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps. We call that hand God, and He always guides us accoring to His well

I'm alive. When I'm eating that's all I think about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have to fight,it will be just as good a day as any to die. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life is the moment we are living now.

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.

In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

Everyone when they are young knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.

We are entering a new world in which we can choose to follow our own steps, not those that society forces us to take.

but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person with whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life. After a long time, she came to the conclusion that men brought only pain, frustration, suffering and a sense of time dragging.

And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.