Quotes from Paulo Coelho

And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only.

Water: it has no taste, no smell, no color, and yet it is the most important thing in the world.

When he thought to complain about the burden of it's weight, he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had withstood the cold of the dawn

Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding life you need to live

There is only one way to learn," the alchemist answered. "It's through action.

And the boy sat there by the well for a long time, remembering that one day in Tarifa the levanter had brought to him the perfume of that woman, and realizing that he had loved her before he even knew she existed. He knew that his love for her would enable him to discover every treasure in the world.

The true lover is the one who realizes that loyalty must go hand in hand with freedom.

No reason is needed for loving.

Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what we're doing; but it becomes a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life.

Now all the mountains had been conquered and astronauts had walked in space. There were no more islands on earth—no matter how small—left to be discovered.

You drown not for falling into a river, but by staying submerge in it.

God...never again allow me to be satisfied with only my own company. [May I] never feel afraid of needing someone, or of suffering. For there is no suffering worse than the dark grey room where pain cannot reach...

She had finally allowed her negative feelings to surface, feelings that had been repressed for years in her soul. She had actually FELT them, and they were no longer necessary, they could leave.

Todo lo que sucede una vez puede que no suceda nunca más. Pero todo lo que sucede dos veces, sucederá, ciertamente, una tercera.»

don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.

Switzerland is one of the few countries in the world where a man's word is still his bond.

you worked so hard to achieve.' It blinds us to everything else, to the moments we've joyfully experienced, to happy times and the bonds created during those occasions. How is it that hatred

every blessing ignored becomes a curse

we two have to live with our mistakes

Keep the bicycle moving, because if you stop pedalling, you will fall off.

It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

We all live in our own world. But if you look up at the starry sky, you'll see that all the different worlds up there combine to form constellations, solar systems, galaxies.

We may think at times that the only thing life offers us tomorrow, is to repeat everything we did today. But if we pay close attention, we will see that no two days are alike.

Cuando todos los días resultan iguales es porque las personas han dejado de percibir las cosas buenas que aparecen en sus vidas siempre que el sol cruza el cielo.