Paulo Coelho Quotes

It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.

I guess a little bit of delusion can go a long way.

gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams.

The world is my representation

We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.

The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

Judgment means that you view the world as you are, rather than as it is.

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

If you're deluded, you live in a place where there isn't everyone else's reality.

There's a beauty in being unrealistic.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

When you're young, you envision happiness in such an idealized way.

You can almost convince yourself that you've accomplished things just by thinking about them. The alternative is to be more realistic. You don't necessarily regard the dreaming process as bad or an obstacle, but it's not realistic enough.

... reality stands before them, yet they don't see it, because what you call real is just the mirror image of your expectations.

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

You may say i'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.