Quotes from Paulo Coelho

We've lost our ability to live with the secrets of the world. And yet there they are before us.

We stop being the moonlight and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it. Tomorrow, the water will evaporate in the sun. And all because, one day, someone said: 'You are ugly. Or: 'She is pretty.' With those three simple words, they stole away all our self-confidence. And we become ugly and embittered.

You're not here anymore. You've got to leave in order to return to the present.

Things are never absolute; they depend on each individual's perceptions.

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

I will talk about my dances...when I was onstage I simply forgot about the woman I was and offered everything to God. That is why I was able to undress so easily. At that moment, I was nothing, not even my body. I was just movements communing with the universe.

Some people were born to face life alone, and this is neither good nor bad, it is simply life.

Cuando no tuve nada que perder, lo perdí todo. Cuando dejé de ser quién era, me encontré a mi mismo. Cuando conocí la humillación y aún así seguí caminando, entendí que era libre para escoger mi destino.

The Tradition of the Sun belongs to all—it wasn't made for the erudite or the pure but for everyday people. Energy is to be found in the tiniest things man encounters in his path; the world is the true classroom, the Love Supreme knows you are alive and will teach you all you need to know.

When I have been truly searching for my treasure, everyday has been luminous, because I've known that every hour was a part of the dream that I would find it. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, I've discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve.

Chi ama aspettandosi qualcosa in cambio perde il suo tempo.

Each movement during combat honors the movements that the previous generations tried to transmit through the Tradition.

I'll make love with them in their houses or in the woods, I'll feel a certain degree of pleasure, but the moment I reach orgasm, the feeling of emptiness will return.

He couldn't go forward or back. It was easier just to leave the stage.

when you want something, the whole universe conspires to help you.

Quien ama necesita saber perderse y encontrarse.

All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.

He hadn't planned anything like that, and when things happen without planning or expectations they are that much more enjoyable and worthwhile—talking to a stranger without an eye to any romantic connection had allowed things to flow more naturally.

No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.

Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.

On a day when you are out of love with life, your aim will be confused, difficult.

Sometimes love carries us into the abyss, taking with us -- to make matters worse -- the people we love.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong, my dear', said her father, looking at the clock. 'Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

The feet of labourers, pilgrims and explorers smoothed these stones. The stones were changed and the travellers were too.