# Paulo Coelho - Quotes: 185 - Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho ## Books - [Aleph](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho/aleph.md) — 73 quotes - [Manuscript Found in Accra](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho/manuscript-found-in-accra.md) — 48 quotes - [The Alchemist](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho/the-alchemist.md) — 65 quotes ## Recently added quotes > Sometimes, when loneliness seems about to crush everything, the only way to resist is to keep on loving. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho/manuscript-found-in-accra/sometimes-when-loneliness.md) > We need to love. Even when it leads us to the land where the lakes are made of tears, to that secret, mysterious place, the land of tears! [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho/manuscript-found-in-accra/we-need-to-love.md) > Arrogance attracts hatred and envy. Elegance arouses respect and Love. Arrogance causes us to humiliate our fellow man or woman. Elegance teaches us to walk in the light. Arrogance complicates words, because it believes that intelligence is only for the chosen few. Elegance transforms complex thoughts into something that everyone can understand. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho/manuscript-found-in-accra/arrogance-attracts-hatred.md) > It’s nice to dream that we will have plenty of time in the future to do our travelling and that, one day, we will. It cheers us up because we know that we are capable of doing more than we do. Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho/manuscript-found-in-accra/its-nice-to-dream.md) > No one can go back, but everyone can go forward. And tomorrow, when the sun rises, all you have to say to yourselves is: I am going to think of this day as the first day of my life. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho/manuscript-found-in-accra/no-one-can.md) > Therefore, blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge... If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself... And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho/manuscript-found-in-accra/therefore-blessed-are.md) > That feeling of uselessness is no respecter of age and never asks permission, but corrodes people’s souls, repeating over and over: ‘No one is interested in you, you’re nothing, the world doesn’t need your presence.’ [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho/manuscript-found-in-accra/that-feeling-of-uselessness.md) > In a desperate attempt to give meaning to life, many turn to religion, because a struggle in the name of a faith is always a justification for some grand action, which could transform the world. ‘We are doing God’s work,’ they tell themselves. And they become devout followers, then evangelists, and finally, fanatics. They don’t understand that religion was created in order to share the mystery and to worship, not to oppress or convert others. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho/manuscript-found-in-accra/in-a-desperate.md) > Those who were never defeated seem happy and superior, masters of a truth they never had to lift a finger to achieve. They are always on the side of the strong. They’re like hyenas, who only eat the leavings of lions. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho/manuscript-found-in-accra/those-who-were.md) > We are used to thinking that what we give is the same as what we receive, but people who love, expecting to be loved in return, are wasting their time. Love is an act of faith, not an exchange... Life is too short for us to keep important words, for example, ‘I love you’, locked in our hearts. But do not always expect to hear the same words back. We love because we need to love. Otherwise, love loses all meaning and the sun ceases to shine. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho/manuscript-found-in-accra/we-are-used.md) > For the first time, I will smile without feeling guilty, because joy is not a sin... For the first time, I will avoid anything that makes me suffer, because suffering is not a virtue. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho/manuscript-found-in-accra/for-the-first.md) > Elegance tends to be mistaken for superficiality and mere appearance. Nothing could be further from the truth: some words are elegant, others can wound and destroy, but all are written with the same letters. Flowers are elegant, even when hidden among the grasses in a meadow. The gazelle when it runs is elegant, even when it is fleeing from a lion. Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others... Elegance lies not in the clothes we wear, but in the way we wear them... It isn’t in the way we wield a sword, but in the dialogue we hold that could avoid a war. But every tribe, every people, has values that they associate with elegance: hospitality, respect, good manners. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho/manuscript-found-in-accra/elegance-tends-to-be-mistaken.md)