"History will only change when we are able to use the energy of love, just as we use the energy of the wind, the seas, the atom."
Read quote
6 likes
Quote collection
Paulo Coelho quotes (page 53 of 104)
2.1K quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high."
Read quote
6 likes
"If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you."
Read quote
6 likes
"I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does."
Read quote
6 likes
"Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone."
Read quote
6 likes
"Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: ‘the book is so much better than the film."
Read quote
6 likes
"Don't expect your genius to be discovered; do what you must do because it gives you joy. Don't expect your love to be accepted. Love because it justifies your life."
Read quote
6 likes
"For the warrior, there is no "better" or "worse"; everyone has the necessary gifts for his particular path."
Read quote
6 likes
"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."
Read quote
6 likes
"Beauty is the greatest seducer of man."
Read quote
6 likes
"Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny"
Read quote
6 likes
"There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher the world."
Read quote
6 likes
"It's inevitable to lose from time to time. The point is: don't get used to defeats."
Read quote
6 likes
"There must be a language that doesn't depend on words."
Read quote
6 likes
"Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river."
Read quote
6 likes
"You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them."
Read quote
6 likes
"When you know the language of love,it's easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you."
Read quote
6 likes
"No one can desire the love of God without first knowing human love."
Read quote
6 likes
"The future belongs to God, and it is only he who reveals it, under extraordinary circumstances."
Read quote
6 likes
"She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger"
Read quote
6 likes