Paulo Coelho Quotes

The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It's not something that committees can do. It's not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It's done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world.

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and smell each other on the rump.

The music I always liked as a kid was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else feels that way, too.' So if someone can do that with my music, it's mission accomplished.

What I'm trying to do is make photographs that are universally understood... that cross cultural lines. I want my photographs to be about the basic emotions and feelings that we all experience.

The thing of sitting in an audience and going into a dream-like state with several hundred other people that are sharing exactly what you're feeling is a profound event.

From the most remote of villages to the largest metropolitan cities, we, as a species, have the same internal need to be seen, heard, and validated. It is the most human of traits that I have witnessed and experienced the world over.

I wanted to get people to feel where I'm coming from and connect with people who are feeling the same way that I am.

I write songs about love because, above all, love is the most human thing we have together. Feelings are a part of us every day. You feel things every day, no matter where you are. So that's what I write about.

The value of emotions comes from sharing them, not just having them.

People need other people to feel things for them," she said. "It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself.

People want to feel united, they want to have that religious sense they want to feel like at a rave 10,000 people at the rave are feeling the same emotions, a very primal need that's not being fulfilled in the world today.

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

An unshared happiness is not happiness.

I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

May he die with no joy at his end, The man who won't be troubled To unlock the keys of his heart and make a friend.

Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.

Man is not meant to live alone.

The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.

We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.

When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.

To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.

Nobody is happy alone. To share experiences is always a good thing.

The point of life for me is just to make connections with people and share experiences with people.

We all have other halves, and when they're feeling bad, we get a little piece of the pain