Happiness Quote by Paulo Coelho

“We're surrounded by Universal Desire. It's not happiness; it's desire. And desires are never satisfied, because once they are, they cease to be desires” quote by Paulo Coelho — Download Open image

““We're surrounded by Universal Desire. It's not happiness; it's desire. And desires are never satisfied, because once they are, they cease to be desires””

Paulo Coelho

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings)

Happiness

More by Paulo Coelho

I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the…

Paulo Coelho

Image

Love will never separate a man from his personal legend.

Paulo Coelho

Image

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

Paulo Coelho

Image

You dont choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them…

Paulo Coelho

Image

To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.

Paulo Coelho

Image

It is not enough to dream of the Impossible Love - it is necessary to conquer it too.

Paulo Coelho

Image

Eat when it is time to eat. And walk when it is time to walk.

Paulo Coelho

Image

People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my…

Paulo Coelho

Image

“Joy is like sex – it begins and ends. I want pleasure. I want to be contended, but happiness? I no longer fall into…

Paulo Coelho

Image

“Trudi se da zivis, sjecanja su za starije ljude.”

Paulo Coelho

Image

I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing, I learned calligraphy. I go to courses on selling, I read one book after another. But that's all a way of avoiding those moments when nothing is happening, because those blank spaces give me a feeling…

Paulo Coelho

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Paulo Coelho

Image

Explore all 3,665 Paulo Coelho quotes

More Happiness quotes

Life is full of change. That's how we learn and grow.

Anonymous

Image

Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation… There are going to be priorities and dimensions of…

Denise Morrison

Image

“WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL OUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE. WE MUST BE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS…

MARVIN J. ASHTON

Image

I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very…

Evgeni Plushenko

Image

Sometimes we wish for the feel but we never understand that we have to give a lot to get the feel !

Robert Reynolds

Image

Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.

Mark Twain

Image

“It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content, knowing that he would never see anything so beautiful again. He wished he could have seen it for longer. More, he wished he could have taken it apart, studied it all the way down to its…

Mira Grant

The happy have whole days,

Colley Cibber

Image

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is…

Frederick Douglass