Paulo Coelho Quotes

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.

I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.

At the beginning of his struggle, the Warrior says: "I have dreams."

I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.

Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideasl The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no new ideas waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten ones, new combinations, extrapolations and recognitions from within ourselves--along with the renewed courage to try them out.

Once, when I was younger, I thought I could be someone else. I'd move to Casablanca, open a bar, and I'd meet Ingrid Bergman. Or more realistically - whether actually more realistic or not - I'd tune in on a better life, something more suited to my true self. Toward that end, I had to undergo training. I read The Greening of America, and I saw Easy Rider three times. But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return.

Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half was alchemized into gold when the austere bluestocking became the fallen woman.

There are multiple sides to all of us. Who we are - and who we might be if we follow our dreams

There's a time in your life where you're not quite sure where you are. You think everything's perfect, but it's not perfect... Then one day you wake up and you can't quite picture yourself in the situation you're in. But the secret is, if you can picture yourself doing anything in life, you can do it.

I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.

Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.

I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.

People say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but to me, that's what life's about.

Live the life you've dreamed.

I now know that my dreams and my identity are only mutually exclusive if I don't try.

Before dance came into my life, I don't really remember having any major goals or dreams of wanting to be anything.

The story of '3 Mics' is the story of a guy who wants to be something and is sort of figuring out how he gets there.

The beauty is that it's all a part of this wonderful dream I had in college. It's beautiful to see what it's turned into. It's the journey that I'm most proud of.

As a character, it's very interesting to play someone who wants to change their life and have him change it.

I was once chillin in my room, watching TV, just in a regular place.. And now I'm in this big world, living my dream and, you know, doing what I love. It's just crazy how it all came around.

I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.

The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision