Quotes about Paulo coehlo

All statutes to the contrary are revoked.

Everything that is done in the present affects the future in the form of consequence and affects the past in the form of redemption.

It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred.

All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion is also choosing a collective way for worshipping and sharing the mysteries. Nevertheless, that person is the only one responsible for his or her actions along the way and has no right to shift responsibility for any personal decisions on to that religion.

Only the following items should be considered to be grave faults: not respecting another's rights: allowing oneself to be paralyzed by fear; feeling guilty; believing that one does not deserve the good or ill that happens in one's life; being a coward. We will love our enemies, but not make alliances with them. They were placed in our path in order to test our sword, and we should, out of respect for them, struggle against them. We will choose our enemies.

Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.

Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.

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.

Every man has a feminine side, and every woman a masculine side. It is important to use discipline with intuition, and to use intuition with objectivity.

One can abandon one's personal legend for a time, as long as one does not forget about it entirely and returns to it as soon as possible.

Every human being has a personal legend to be fulfilled, and this is our reason for being in the world. This personal legend manifests itself in our enthusiasm for the task.

Each human being has his or her own sexual identity and should be able to exercise that identity without guilt as long as they do not force that sexual identity on others.

Each human being was given two qualities: power and the gift. Power directs us towards our destiny; the gift obliges us to share with others what is best in us.

Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.

We are all different, and should do what we can do te remain so.

The old shepherd was right: The only solution was to forget a part of uncertainty and create a new history for oneself.

Fear reaches only to the point where the unavoidable begins; from there on, it loses its meaning. And all we have left is the hope that we are making the right decision.

… but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.

His [Elijah] heart was beginning to give signs of alarm; he was enjoying being at this woman's side. Love could be a more frightening experience than standing before Ahab's soldier with an arrow aimed at his heart; if the arrow had struck him, he would be dead –and the rest was up to God. But if love struck him, he alone would have to take responsibility for the consequences.

… of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible –and the most powerful –was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided… but the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.

Every man hath the right to doubt his task, and to forsake it from time to time; but what he must not do is forget it. Whoever doubteth not himself is unworthy –for in his unquestioning belief in his ability, he commiteth the sin of pride. Blessed are they who go through moments of indecision.

That is a question we cannot answer before, or even during, the trials. Only when we have overcome them do we understand why they were there.

What reason?

Everything will happen as was written by the Lord," replied the prophet. "There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.

A child can always 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.

Suffering has no strength to wound a weary body.

This was freedom: to feel what the hear desired, with no thought to the opinion of the rest.

The brave are always stubborn

Courage is fear that prays.

The best way to know and destroy an enemy is to pretend to become his friend.