The Book of Manuals Quotes

“Each human being has the right to two blessings: getting things right and getting things wrong. In the latter case, there will always be a kind of apprenticeship that will lead him back to the right path.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Book of Manuals

“For the warrior there is no such thing as an impossible love. He is not intimidated by silence, indifference or rejection. He knows that, behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire. This is why the warrior takes more risks than other people. He is constantly seeking the love of someone, even if that means often having to hear the word ‘No’, returning home defeated and feeling rejected in body and soul. A warrior never gives in to fear when he is searching for what he needs. Without love, he is nothing.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Book of Manuals

“Every man has a feminine side, and every woman has a masculine side. One must be intuitive when using discipline and objective when using intuition.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Book of Manuals

“Let your path be a mirror of yourself. Do not be influenced by the way in which others tend their paths. You have your own soul to listen to, and the birds to tell you what your soul is saying. May your soul’s stories be beautiful and pleasing to everything around you. Above all, may the stories that your soul tells you along the way be reflected in every second of your journey.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Book of Manuals

“distinguish the friend from the manipulator? The answer is simple: the true teacher is not the one who teaches us the ideal path, but the one who shows us the many ways of reaching the path that we need to travel if we are to find our destiny. Once we have found that path, the teacher cannot help us anymore, because its challenges are unique. This applies to neither love nor war, but unless we understand it, we will never get anywhere.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Book of Manuals

“A man who chooses a religion is also choosing a way of worshipping and of sharing the mysteries collectively. However, he alone is responsible for how he behaves on his path and has no right to make his religion responsible for his steps and his decisions.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Book of Manuals

“All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same degree of respect.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Book of Manuals

“Each human being has his own sexual identity and should live according to that identity without guilt, provided that he does not oblige others to share it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Book of Manuals

“All human beings are different, and they should do everything they can to continue to be different.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Book of Manuals

“Those wounded in love, unlike those wounded in armed conflicts, are neither victims nor torturers. They chose something that is part of life, and so they must accept both the agony and the ecstasy of that choice. And those who have never been wounded by love will never be able to say: ‘I have lived.’ Because they haven’t.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Book of Manuals

“Often you can see the mountain in the distance – beautiful, interesting, full of challenges. However, when you try to reach it, what happens? It’s surrounded by roads; forests lie between you and your objective; and what seems clear on the map is far more complicated in reality So you must try all the paths and tracks until, one day, you find yourself before the peak you intend to climb.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Book of Manuals

“All paths are the same and lead nowhere. Therefore, the warrior chooses a path that has a life of its own, and from the moment he begins to follow that path, he feels glad and becomes the path. His decision to continue along it depends entirely on his happiness, not on his ambition or his fear. However, before he acts, he always asks himself: ‘Does this path have heart?”
― Paulo Coelho, The Book of Manuals

“Choose the mountain you want to climb: Don’t be influenced by what other people say: ‘that one’s prettier’ or ‘that one looks easier’.You are going to put a lot of energy and enthusiasm into achieving your objective, and you are the only person responsible for your choice, so be quite sure about what you are doing.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Book of Manuals

“Final statement: Not all women want marriage and children; many want only orgasms and pets. Never forget that.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Book of Manuals

“Because while our armies are invading other countries, they are staunchly engaged in carrying out their own private, inexplicable war on all the cockroaches in the world.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Book of Manuals

“Therefore, if you want to be in harmony with your love or with your fight, learn to react rapidly. Do not allow your supposed experience of life to transform you into a machine.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Book of Manuals

“We often think that the ideal stance is to give up one’s life for a dream: nothing could be further from the truth. In order to achieve our dream, we need to preserve our life and we must, therefore, know how to avoid those things that threaten us. The more we plan our steps, the more chance there is that we will go wrong, because we are failing to take into consideration four things: other people, life’s teachings, passion and calm. The more we feel we are in control of things, the farther off we are from controlling anything.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Book of Manuals

“Each human being must keep alight within him the sacred flame of madness, but behave like a normal person.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Book of Manuals

“The Warrior of Light knows the importance of intuition. In the midst of battle he has no time to think about the enemy’s blows – so he uses his instinct and obeys his angel. In times of peace he deciphers the signs that God sends him. People say: ‘He’s crazy.’ Or else: ‘He lives in a fantasy world.’ Or even: ‘How can he put his trust in such illogical things?’ But the warrior knows that intuition is God’s alphabet, and so he continues to listen to the wind and talk to the stars.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Book of Manuals

“A todo ser humano le fue otorgada una virtud: la capacidad de elegir. Quien no utiliza esa virtud la transforma en una maldición, y otros elegirán por él.”
― Paulo Coelho, El Libro de los Manuales

“la intuición es el alfabeto de Dios,”
― Paulo Coelho, El Libro de los Manuales

“Los que jamás fueron heridos de amor, nunca podrán decir: “Viví”. Porque no vivieron.”
― Paulo Coelho, El Libro de los Manuales

“Escriba sus propios manuales. Es un ejercicio fantástico. Paulo Coelho”
― Paulo Coelho, El Libro de los Manuales

“Because a man’s greatest fear is not being a man, something that never occurs to a woman (not being a woman, that is).”
― Paulo Coelho, The Book of Manuals

“Vive porque actúa, y no porque piensa que actúa.”
― Paulo Coelho, El Libro de los Manuales

“Prestando atención a las pequeñas cosas, consigue resguardarse de las grandes calamidades.”
― Paulo Coelho, El Libro de los Manuales

“Porque logran fingir orgasmos con la misma calidad artística de la más famosa y talentosa estrella de cine.”
― Paulo Coelho, El Libro de los Manuales

“Detestamos hacer el amor cuando no tenemos ganas, pero aún así lo hacemos, y usted será incapaz de percibir la diferencia.”
― Paulo Coelho, El Libro de los Manuales

“Juegue con nuestras mascotas y con nuestros niños, y jugaremos con usted. Ignórelos, y lo ignoraremos.”
― Paulo Coelho, El Libro de los Manuales

“At that moment, his angel whispers: ‘You are only an instrument of the light. There is no reason to feel proud or to feel guilty, there are only reasons to fulfil your destiny.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Book of Manuals