Quotes from Paulo Coelho

People meet when they need to meet.

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Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride he knew, because it was the most destructive way of being different.

Lo que perturba es el riesgo de ser diferente, y el horror de ser igual...

These are people who accept the fire of the Holy Spirit,' he said, 'the fire that is left behind but that is used by so few people to light their candles.

Nothing beats that moment of revelation when shyness loses ground to boldness, and quiet moans turn into squeals and swearing.

I observed the woman I had been up until then: weak but trying to give the impression of strength. Fearful of everything but telling herself it wasn't fear - it was the wisdom of someone who knew what reality was.

Para tener fe en nuestro camino, no es preciso demostrar que el camino del otro es equivocado.

Why don't people's hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams? the boy asked the alchemist. Because that's what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer.

Such are the lives of those who haven't the courage to risk: solutions are generously provided by God, but people always seek complicated explanations, and end up doing nothing.

one should only do that which truly fills our hearts with enthusiasm

The more God asks us to participate in His mysteries, the more disoriented we become, because He asks us constantly to follow our dreams and our hearts. And that's difficult to do when we're used to living in a different way. Finally we discover, to our surprise, that God wants us to be happy, because He is the Father.

The Warrior of the Light concentrates on the small miracles of daily life. He is capable of seeing what is beautiful because he carries beauty within himself, for the world is a mirror and gives back to each man the reflection of his own face.

May your morning be a beautiful one, with the sun shining on your soldier's armour, for in the afternoon I will defeat you.

Nothing happens without effort. You have to have faith. And for that, you have to break down the barriers of prejudice, which requires courage. To have courage, you must conquer your fears. And so on and so forth. Let's make peace with our days. We can't forget that life is on our side. It also wants to get better. Let's help it out!

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.

soy una mujer dividida entre el terror a que todo cambie y el terror a que todo siga igual el resto de mi vida.

When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one purpose only: you need to change everything and move forward.

Dreamers can never be tamed

What makes a person hate themselves? Cowardice, perhaps. Or the eternal fear of being wrong, of not doing what others expect. A few moments ago I was happy, I forgot I was under the sentence of death; then when I remembered the situation I'm in, I felt frightened.

For a moment, he thought: I could give up magic for her, but immediately realized how foolish that thought was. Love didn't require that kind of renunciation. True love allowed each person to follow their own path, knowing that they would never lose touch with their Soul Mate.

Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of second. -Eleven Minutes

But as far as true goodness was concerned, that didn't exist - not in the land of cowardly men.

But we must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there is no rules. (….) The heart decides, and what it decides is all that really matters.