Quotes from Paulo Coelho

Basically, everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went through, and they react completely differently. We looked for the easiest way out: a separate reality

Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it.

Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the most important lesson we can learn is how to love. How to love better.

It was so good that I can see love in everything, even in the eyes of a schizophrenic.

the world was in the hands of those who had courage to dream and to realize their dreams

Je ne veux plus avoir affaire à mes propres ténèbres, me suis-je promis à moi même, fermant définitivement la porte au nez de l'Autre. Une chute de troisième étage fait tout autant de dégâts qu'une chute du centième étage.

God gives us the sun and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Everyday, we try to pretend that we havent perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist- that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow.

Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him. [...] We, people hearts, seldom say much about these treasures, because people no longer want to go in search of them. We speak of them only to children. Later we simple let life proceed, in its own direction, toward its own path laid out for them — the path to their destinies, and to happiness. Most people see the world as a threatening place, and because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place. p.125

No one can avoid defeat. That is why it is better to lose a few battles in the fight for your dreams than to be defeated without even knowing why you are fighting.

True love is that which manages to avoid unnecessary suffering.

The Warrior of the Light meditates.

Love is patience. That is how Love normally behaves: it waits calmly, unhurriedly, knowing that at some point, it will show itself. Love is ready to do its work at the right moment, but it waits calmly and meekly. Love is patient. It can bear all things. It believes all things. It hopes for all things. Because Love understands.

Ecclesiastes says: "Instead of justice there was wickedness, instead of righteousness, there was yet more wickedness…. But God will judge them all, both the righteous and the wicked, God will judge them both, for there is a time for every intention, a time for every deed.

Nothing in the world was more important than my daughter's happiness, even though I'd never understood why she always had to choose the most difficult and painful of paths. But a mother doesn't have to understand anything, she simply has to love and protect. And feel proud. Knowing that we could give her almost everything, she nevertheless set off early in search of her independence. She'd had her stumbles and her failures, but she insisted on facing any storms alone.

Bukan terang yang ingin kau temukan. Kau hanya ingin memastikan bahwa yang ada hanyalah kegelapan.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of men.

When you want something, the whole universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Love is the falcon's flight over your sands. Because for him, you are a green field, from which he always returns with game. He knows your rocks, your dunes, and your mountains, and you are generous to him.

Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows.

4 the first time, I will avoid anything that makes me suffer, because suffering is not a virtue.. I will not complain about life, saying, Everything is always the same and I have nothin' 2 change it. Because I'm livin' this day as if it were my first and, while it lasts, I will discover things that I didn't even know were there.

People live to save themselves. You will understand that at the moment of your own death.

Yang menjaga kehidupan terus bergulir bukanlah perjuangan manusia dalam mencari kenikmatan, melainkan usaha mereka untuk melepaskan segala hal yang mereka anggap penting.

Noone of us can know what tomorrow will hold, because each day has its good and its bad moments.

Seize every oppurtunity that life offers you because when oppotunities go, it will take a long time to come back.