10 Posts found for Author: Paulo Coelho

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.

Author: Paulo Coelho | Subjects: Insight, Psychology | Behavior

Pain is frightening when it shows its real face, but it’s seductive when it comes disguised as sacrifice or self-denial. Or cowardice.

Author: Paulo Coelho | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

Author: Paulo Coelho | Subjects: Desires, Psychology | Behavior

Some people have a natural talent for [love], but the majority of us have to re-learn, to remember how to love, and everyone, without exception, needs to burn on the bonfire of past emotions, to relive certain joys and griefs, certain ups and downs, until they can see the connecting thread that exists behind each new encounter; because there is a connecting thread.

Author: Paulo Coelho | Subjects: Concepts, Love, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded. Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their … [ Read more ]

Author: Paulo Coelho | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having … [ Read more ]

Author: Paulo Coelho | Subjects: Concepts, Love, Relationships

Perhaps love really can transform someone, but despair does the job more quickly.

Author: Paulo Coelho | Subjects: Concepts, Love, Psychology | Behavior

I learned the most important lesson of my life: that the extraordinary is not the birthright of a chosen and privileged few, but of all people, even the humblest. That is my one certainty: we are all the manifestation of the divinity of God.

Author: Paulo Coelho | Subjects: Action | Accomplishment, Wisdom

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.

Author: Paulo Coelho | Subjects: Pain & Suffering, Wisdom

If I must be faithful to someone or something, then I have, first of all, to be faithful to myself. If I’m looking for true love, I first have to get the mediocre loves out of my system. The little experience of life I’ve had has taught me that no one owns anything, that everything is an illusion – and that applies to … [ Read more ]

Author: Paulo Coelho