Paulo Coelho Quotes

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

To me life is simply an invitation to live.

I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.

I try to just take in every moment of being alive.

The aim of living is life itself.

The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

The meaning of life is life.

I've never been career-oriented. Did I ever want to be a star? What's a star? Is that something in the heavens? That's the only definition that comes to my mind. And the most important goals in my life have been to move gently, to be at ease with the mystery of what it's all about.

People who are fully alive look out of their minds to those who simply exist.

I just live my life and try to be present.

I try to be available for life to happen to me. We're in this life, and if you're not available, the sort of ordinary time goes past and you didn’t live it. But if you're available, life gets huge. You're really living it.

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

Don't try to understand it. You won't succeed. Don't try to see it. You can't. Try to live it, and you will be living out of the center.

Life is being, not having.

Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.

Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.

Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be

I'm not here to be remembered, I'm here to be alive.

Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what "it" wanted me to do.

Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world.

Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring.

Some people say it is hard to live in such a way, being completely one with the present moment. Of course, it is not hard. The opposite is hard. Not being one with life is hard, and that is how most people live.