Paulo Coelho Quotes

There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.

The next frontier is not in front of us but inside us.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

No-one but me gets into my head.

It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!

What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.

Put the greatest emphasis on what's in you; your knowledge, your wisdom, your inner strength, your character, your tenacity and people will look through the box and always walk away with the product.

The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.

The more we nourish our internal world, the more powerful we grow in the external world.

We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside.

Names are not important. It's what lies inside of you that matters.

I just pay attention to what's in my head. That's my number-one rule.

Life is lived on the inside. What's outside doesn't matter.

We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.

It doesn't matter what you do. It matters who you are.

That is why success and fruitfulness depend as much upon focusing on the "who" you are as much as the "what" of the work you do. Invest in your character, and it will give you the returns that you are looking for by only investing in the work itself. You can't do the latter without the former.

Our society is all about focusing on the externals, "These people like me, I'm successful because of these people, they view me as being good" and we need to take that vision and instead of expanding it outwards we need to look inside ourselves.

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

We are blind to the worlds within us, waiting to be born.

The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important.

There's more to me than just this jersey I wear, and that's Christ living inside of me.

Remind people who they are instead of just complimenting them on what they've done.

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.