Quotes about Perception
From the moment we are born, people tell us that the world is like this and like that, this way, that way. It is natural that - for a certain period of time - we end up believing what we are told. But we must soon push these ideas aside and discover our own way of living reality.
— Paulo Coelho
You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.
— Paulo Coelho
We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.
— Paulo Coelho
Beauty is present in all creation, but the danger lies in the fact that we allow ourselves to be influenced by what people think. We deny our own beauty because others can't or won't recognize it. We try to imitate what we see around us. We try to be what other people think of as 'pretty' & little by little, our soul fades. We forget the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.
— Paulo Coelho
life can seem either very long or very short, according to how you live it.
— Paulo Coelho
God is here, right now, at our side. We can see him in this mist, in the ground we're walking on, even in my shoes. His angels keep watch while we sleep and help us in our work. In order to find God, you have only to look around.
— Paulo Coelho
He was sure that it made no difference to her on which day he appeared: for her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.
— Paulo Coelho
Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him.
— Paulo Coelho
As so often in life, things are not always what it seems.
— Paulo Coelho
The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader.
— Paulo Coelho
In the long run, what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own Personal Legends.
— Paulo Coelho
Wherever you it is that you want to see the face of God, there you will see it. And if you don't want to see it, it doesn't matter, so long as you are performing good works.
— Paulo Coelho