Paulo Coelho Quotes

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

I don't think any human being/artist is 100% emotionally stable, based on the human condition and our emotions that relate to it.

I guess I kind of realized that my whole life isn't one giant press junket. I don't have to be smiling all the time and always have the perfect answer.

I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand.

I think beauty shows exteriorly what you are feeling inside; so if you are not in a great mood, it shows on your face a lot.

I know a lot of people who are depressed, and they walk around, and they're smiling every day, but no one's asking them how they're really doing.

I feel like a lot of times when stuff is on my mind, I really don't show it. I know how to hide my emotions.

If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul.

If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.

What I've learned about being angry with people is that it generally hurts you more than it hurts them.

..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.

The health of the soul is as precarious as that of the body; for when we seem secure from passions, we are no less in danger of their infection than we are of falling ill when we appear to be well.

Great hatred can be concealed in the countenance, and much in a kiss.

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.

Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you're sane.

I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell; I know right now you can't tell; But stay a while and maybe then you'll see; A different side of me

I want to believe that happiness might at least be possible later on in life for people prone to sadness.

Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy.

I'm not telling you that suicidal people aren't so far away from people who can get by; I'm telling you that people who can get by aren't so far away from being suicidal.

If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

suicide is absolute, and if you think you will survive by hiding who you really are, you are sadly misled: there is no such thing as partial or intermittent suicide. You can only survive if you - who you really are - do survive.

And smiles to go before I weep, And Smiles to go before I weep.