Paulo Coelho Quotes

For me, my life is a journey.

The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts.

Dare to be what your best self knows you ought to be; dare to be a bigger human being than you have ever been.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

Most projects that I've done are really not about the project. They're about what's going on inside and around, that journey that we're all on, and what I can do to help that journey further itself and be of encouragement to somebody.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

Why do I want to be challenged or have challenges? That's why I don't go climb mountains.

Today begins a new saga in my life which I expect to strengthen me and allow me time for reflection... I plan to write music while in prison, read and pray regularly and will come out a stronger, more confident woman.

My whole life has been one of seeking experience.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Honestly, so much of my book is about the best things in my life have happened since I'm 40.

I've produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again; I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company, when I started producing.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

My first book was called, 'Mountain, Get Out of My Way,' where I did an autobiographical sketch, if you will, looking back at myself and looking back at things in my life, and juxtaposing them against things that are happening in other people's lives and trying to be motivational.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Character is a journey, not a destination.