Paulo Coelho Quotes

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.

I do believe in an afterlife. I try to be at one with people and try to love life as much as I can.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.

One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

I love being a scientologist, as it's helped me in every single aspect of my life.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing.

Afterlife, in my mind, is pretty much nothing. This is it. This is what we get, for me.

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.