Paulo Coelho Quotes

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

It's all about knowing when to listen to that conversation and - without sounding really hokey - when to tune it out and follow your heart.

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

It's what you feel, what is in your heart that matters most.

After self-nurturance, listening to the whispers of our hearts is probably the hardest task we've ever attempted.

You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head.

Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.

My heart knows me better than I know myself, so I'm gonna let it do all the talking.

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

The Higher Self is whispering to you softly in the silence between your thoughts.

When I pray, I'm just talking to what some people might call our higher selves: God, myself, my intuition, my heart. Whatever that is, that's where I go.

In life you only have to travel 6 inches. That is the distance from your mind to your heart.

All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.

We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.

The head talks to the heart and the heart talks to the feet.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

The body never lies.

You've got to go with what feels instinctive and true to your heart, and filter out all of the other stuff.

What originates everything are the emotions, the feelings, what we call soul. Then the brain commands these feelings to the voice. The voice is just the vehicle; it's the very last step in the chain.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

Your real feelings are inside you.