Paulo Coelho Quotes About Understanding

• When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Wisdom, Thinking

• This miracle is in the small things of daily life; we must live in the understanding that at every moment there is a way out of each problem, the way of finding that which is missing, the right clue to the decision which must be taken in order to change our entire future.

  Paulo Coelho

  Taken, Order, Decision

• Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Understanding, Meaning Of Life

  "My dream was, and still is, to be a writer: Paulo Coelho". Interview with Tanu Talwar, zeenews.india.com. July 06, 2009.

• Before there was a proper understanding and a sense of God's presence, the idea that everything would one day end was utterly desolating.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 10, 2009

• The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wisdom, Understanding, Soul

• ...he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke-the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Heart, Understanding

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

• I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fear, Light, Understanding

• At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still, and the Soul of the World surged within him. When he looked into her dark eyes, and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and silence, he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke — the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. Something that exerted the same force whenever two pairs of eyes met, as had theirs here at the well.

  Paulo Coelho

  Eye, Heart, Dark

  "The Alchemist". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1988.

• Love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

  Paulo Coelho

  Keys, Understanding, Mystery

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 19, 2014

• The trouble with words is that they give us the illusory sense that we are making ourselves understood as well as understanding what others are saying. However, when we turn around and come face-to-face with our destiny, we discover that words are not enough.

  Paulo Coelho

  Destiny, Giving, Understanding

• I came to set fire to the earth. And I am watchful that the fire grow. May the fire of love grow in our hearts. May the fire of transformation glow in our movements. May the fire of purification burn away our sins. May the fire of justice guide our steps. May the fire of wisdom illuminate our paths. May the fire that spreads over the Earth never be extinguished.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wisdom, Heart, Fire

• We must love because we are loved by God. We must be conscious of death if we are to have a proper understanding of life. We must struggle in order to grow, but without falling into the trap of the power we gain through that struggle, because we know that power is worthless. Finally, we must accept that our eternal soul is, at this moment, caught in the web of time with all its opportunities and its limitations.

  Paulo Coelho

  Struggle, Fall, Opportunity

• Why do they make things so complicated?" "So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand.," he said. "Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value." "It's those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work.

  Paulo Coelho

  Responsibility, Understanding, Gold

• Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world.

  Paulo Coelho

  Understanding, Alchemist, Quality

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

• There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Understanding, Moments

• May we understand that joy is not a sin, sacrifice is not a virtue.

  Paulo Coelho

  Sacrifice, Joy, Understanding

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 30, 2012

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