Paulo Coelho Quotes About Language

• Omens are a language, it's the alphabet we develop to speak to the world's soul, or the universe's, or God's, whatever name you want to give it. Like an alphabet, it is individual, you only learn it by making mistakes, and that keeps you from globalizing the spiritual quest.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Mistake, Names

• Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Giving Up, People

• The young all have the same dream: to save the world. Some quickly forget this dream, convinced that there are more important things to do, like having a family, earning money, traveling, and learning a foreign language. Others, though, decide that it really is possible to make a difference in society and to shape the world we will hand on to future generations.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Hands, Differences

• Dreams are the language of God.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Inspiration

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.13, Harper Collins

• When you know that language, it's easy to believe that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of the desert or in some great city... without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Believe, Cities

• If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.

  Paulo Coelho

  World, Language, Ifs

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

• Every human being should know two languages: the language of society and the language of signs. One serves to communicate with other people, the other serves to understand God's messages.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Two, People

• Fortunate are those who take the first step. Someday people will realize that men and women are capable of speaking the language of the angels - that all of us are possessed of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and that we can perform miracles, cure, prophesy, and understand.

  Paulo Coelho

  Angel, Men, People

• Coincidence is the language of the stars, for something to happen, so many forces have to be put into action.

  Paulo Coelho

  Stars, Action, Coincidence

• After weeks on the road, listening to a language you don’t understand, using a currency whose value you don’t comprehend, walking down streets you’ve never walked down before, you discover that your old “I,” along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences.

  Paulo Coelho

  New Experiences, Interesting, Challenges

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

• When you travel you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes more slowly, and on most journeys you don't even understand the language the people speak....You begin to be more accessible to others, because they may be able to help you in difficult situations.

  Paulo Coelho

  Travel, Journey, Difficult Situations

• This time I m not going to tell you a story. I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there.

  Paulo Coelho

  Country, Ideas, Insanity

• He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Important, Language

• The warrior knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words. Yes. Love. God. They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Warrior, Space

• In all the languages in the world, there is the same proverb: "What the eyes don't see, the heart doesn't grieve over." Well, I say that there isn't an ounce of truth in it. The further off they are, the closer to the heart are all those feelings that we try to repress and forget.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Eye

• There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher the world.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, World

• 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

• Omens are the individual language in which God talks to you. My omens are not your omens.

  Paulo Coelho

  God, Language, Individual

• There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve things at the shop. It was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.

  Paulo Coelho

  Boys, Alchemist, Trying

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

• 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.

• You came so that you could learn about your dreams," said the old woman. "And dreams are the language of God. When he speaks in our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Soul, Alchemist

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.13, Harper Collins

• There must be a language that doesn't depend on words.

  Paulo Coelho

  Language, Alchemist Book, Depends

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

• signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is guiding us.

  Paulo Coelho

  Errors, Trial And Error, Trials

• The language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Alchemist

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

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