Quotes from Paulo Coelho

If everyone played their part, no one else would have to suffer, because He had suffered for all those who'd had the courage to fight for their dreams.

You don't have to explain your dreams, they belong to you.

if Evil exists, it's to be found in our fears?

every man's day is a dark night , no one knows what's coming up the next moment . though we keep going forward because we have faith . because we believe .

Love can only be found through he act of loving

Miracles do not go against the laws of nature; we only think that because we do not know nature's laws.

and he felt that, just as he had conquered this place, he could conquer the world.

And all of us, one way or another, are insane.

Quand nous nous engageons dans le chemin, nous avons toujours une idee plus ou moins definie de ce que nous voulons trouver. Les femmes en general recherchent l'Autre Partie, les hommes le Pouvoir. Ni les uns ni les autres ne desirent apprendre: ils veulent arriver au but qu'ils se sont fixes.

There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have receive a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

She had never allowed herself to be provoked; she had learned early that whenever a new situation presented itself, you had to remain cool and distant.

people need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want. "We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.

Then, sometime during the fourth year, the omens will abandon you, because you've stopped listening to them.

I think, knowing full well that we always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want ant as they are.

Choose what information you listen to. Place a filter over your eyes and ears and only allow in things that won't bring you down, because we have our day-to-day life to do that. Do you think I don't get judged and criticized at work? Well, I do—a lot! But I've decided to hear only the things that encourage me to improve, the things that help me correct my mistakes. Otherwise, I will just pretend I can't hear the other stuff or block it out.

When I had my sheep, I was happy, and I made those around me happy. People saw me coming and welcomed me, he thought. But now I'm sad and alone. I'm going to become bitter and distrustful of people because one person betrayed me. I'm going to hate those who have found their treasure because I never found mine. And I'm going to hold on to what little I have, because I'm too insignificant to conquer the world.

Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign of terror, in the shadow of the guillotine.

I ask all those who hope to one day work for the good of humanity: never forget that even if you deliver up your body to be burned, you gain nothing if you have not Love. Nothing!

Que mis lágrimas corran así bien lejos, para que mi amor nunca sepa que un día lloré por él.

when the past dredges up a memory capable of opening old wounds, suddenly other wounds appear and make the soul bleed more deeply, until you have to kneel down and cry.

That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

I'm off in search of adventure,even though i am sixty fve and fully aware of all the limitations that age can bring....

We know what we want to do, but are afraid of hurting those around us by abandoning everything in order to pursue our dream. We do not realize that love is just a further impetus, not something that will prevent us going forward. We do not realize that those who genuinely wish us well want us to be happy and are prepared to accompany us on that journey.

He recognized that he was feeling something he had never experienced before : the desire to live in one place forever. With the girl with the raven hair his days would never be the same again