Paulo Coelho Quotes

If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.

Many of us are frightened to look within ourselves, and fear has us put up walls so thick we no longer remember who we really are.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

The thought of being on my own really terrified me. But then I realized being alone is really a cleansing thing.

I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is inevitably rewarding.

That's what my music is good for - clearing out the house and being alone.

You discover who you truly are only when you live alone.

It took living alone for me to really get to know myself.

Before you can come to know your purpose, you must come to know yourself.

It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be.

All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive.

Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness; this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.

If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced.

I think a person needs to learn from childhood to find himself alone. It means to not be bored when you’re by yourself, because a person who finds himself bored when alone –as it seems to me– is in danger.

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.

One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.