Paulo Coelho Quotes

When you arrive where you thought you wanted to be, you'll just begin a new journey so enjoy each step along the way

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

Sometimes, I think there's a lack of ambition in me. But then sometimes, I think, no, you can, like William Blake said, you know, see heaven in a grain of sand. If you look really, really closely at a situation, you can find almost endless interest in it.

Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

I find this life so interesting.

People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

To see far is one thing, going there is another.

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.

I feel like I know where I'm going. And I like where I'm going.

The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Life for me is about movement.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

There are so many amazing parts to life, so many amazing things to write about.

The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.

Journey is my life now.

I'm not even close to where I want to be; it's just a little mini step on the way. This is only the beginning.

I've got far to go. There's always more to be done.

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

The journey is the reward