Quotes from Paulo Coelho

And yet we feel obliged to repress our emotions and our desires, because they don't fit with what we call "maturity.

What the eyes don't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

And, as the camel driver had said, to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world. Everything depended on one word: "Maktub.

I can't control myself, that's my problem.

Although we cannot control God's time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the things we are waiting as quickly as possible.

Comme cela arrive, d'ailleurs, à la plupart des gens en ce monde : ils recherchent la souffrance là où ils trouveraient les joies les plus grandes, parce qu'ils croient qu'ils ne méritent pas le bonheur.

Like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesn't teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.

Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.

Ali ne smemo nikad smetnuti s uma da je duhovno iskustvo Ljubavi. A u Ljubavi ne postoje pravila. Mozemo pokusavati da se pridrzavamo prirucnika, da vladamo svojim srcem, da izgradimo strategiju ponasanja-ali sve su to kojestarije. Srce odlucuje, i to sto ono odluci, jedino i vazi.

Reprogram yourself every minute of each day with thoughts that make you grow. When you're feeling irritated or confused, try to laugh at yourself. Laugh out loud at this woman tormented by doubts and anxieties, convinced that her problems are the most important thing in the world.

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world. And the closer you will be to your Soulmate.

It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their Personal Legend.

But no one gets lost - the hand of the merciful God always lies on the heads of courageous men and women, those who dare to be different because they believe in their dreams.

Life without cause is a life without effect.

you are the only person responsible for your choice

Let us concentrate all our efforts on achieving perfection through the imperfect gestures of everyday life. True wisdom means respecting the simple things we do, for they can take us where we need to go.

Because you forgot that the path to knowledge is a path that's open to everyone, to the common people.

Même si l'Ecclésiaste dit qu'il y a un temps pour déchirer et un temps pour coudre, le temps pour coudre laisse parfois des cicatrices très profondes, le pire ce n'est pas de se promener dans Genève seul et misérable, c'est de donner à une personne qui est près de nous l'impression qu'elle n'a pas la moindre importance dans notre vie

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

That was the glory of man - to nurture and maintain knowledge.

No one can learn to love by following a manual and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm.

We all know I won't be killed because of this stupid allegation of espionage, but because I decided to be who I always dreamed. And the price of a dream is always high.

We are all prisoners of the sands of time, and we have no control over them.