Quotes from Paulo Coelho

Straight roads do not make skillful drivers.

You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.

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.

Am I cured?" "No. You're someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness.

I am going to die. But I am going to die in peace because I lived my life as intensely as I could.

This is the present moment. Learn how to gobble it up without fear or guilt.

Don't let other's say That road is better or That route is easier. The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions.

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.

The problem is that they don't even realize that they're walking a new road every day. They don't see that the fields are new and the seasons change. All they think about is food and water

We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.

I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.