Paulo Coelho Quotes About Childhood

• Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives.

  Paulo Coelho

  Knowing, People, Childhood

• Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.

  Paulo Coelho

  Growing Up, Get Well, Thinking

• we have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments. We can stifle its cries, but we cannot silence its voice.The child we once were is still there. Blessed are the children, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.If we are not reborn if we cannot learn to look at life with the innocence and the enthusiasm o childhood it makes no sense to go on living.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Blessed, Magic Moments

• We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as the years accumulate, so too do the layers of prejudice, fear and guilt. There comes a time when our personal calling is so deeply buried in our soul as to be invisible. But know that it's still there.

  Paulo Coelho

  Giving Up, Growing Up, Ideas

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

• This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we didn't yet know what love meant. A kiss that had been suspended in the air as we grew, that had traveled in the world in the sovenier of a medal, and that had remained hidden behind piles of books. A kiss that had been lost and now was found. In the moment of that kiss were years of searching, disillusionment and impossible dreams.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Book, Kissing

• I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Childhood, Enthusiasm

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

• Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.

  Paulo Coelho

  Sea, Childhood, Risk

  "Paulo Coelho: 'Today we are proud of being Brazilians'". Interview, www.cnn.com. August 31, 2010.

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