Quote

I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I didn't want to go in.

Paulo Coelho

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Paulo Coelho
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 24
Actor
Blogger
Composer
Lyricist
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Researcher
Science Fiction Writer
Songwriter
Writer
Rio
Paulo Coelho de Souza
Pushing
Direction
Taken
Understand
Didn
Years
Life

More quotes by Paulo Coelho

Image
His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.
Paulo Coelho
Image
I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul. Because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take.
Paulo Coelho
Image
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Paulo Coelho
Image
We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
Paulo Coelho
Image
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 according to His will.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Never abandon your dreams. Follow the signs.
Paulo Coelho
Image
I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books.
Paulo Coelho
Image
There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.
Paulo Coelho
Image
We are neither worse nor better than those who eye us critically.
Paulo Coelho
Image
The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one.
Paulo Coelho
Image
If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy. Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy they just keep repeating what others tell them to.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Tears are words that need to be written.
Paulo Coelho
Image
They spent days, nights, weeks, and years talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice.
Paulo Coelho
Image
She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering, or the total absence of meaning in their lives.
Paulo Coelho
Image
But love is much like a dam if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.
Paulo Coelho
Image
A warrior takes every opportunity to teach himself.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent because otherwise, you'd sink into chaos.
Paulo Coelho