Quotes from Paulo Coelho

We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear

I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary;

El amor no hace muchas preguntas, porque si empezamos a pensar empezamos a tener miedo. Es un miedo inexplicable, y no vale la pena intentar traducirlo en palabras. »Puede ser el miedo al desprecio, a no ser aceptada, a quebrar el encanto. Parece ridículo, pero es así. Por eso no se pregunta: se actúa. Como tú mismo has dicho tantas veces, se corren los riesgos.

insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there.

Dan Tuhan jarang sekali mengungkapkan masa depan. Kalaupun Dia melakukannya, alasannya hanya satu: masa depan itu telah digariskan untuk diubah

When it first shoots up out of the earth, we don't condemn it as immature and underdeveloped, nor do we criticize the buds for not being open when they appear. We stand in wonder at the process taking place, and give the plant the care it needs at each stage of its development.

This wasn't a strange place; it was a new one.

Good & Evil struggled between us. It was all a matter of control. And choice. Nothing more ang nothing less.

Everything seemed wrapped in an aura of oppressive silence; it seemed that no one wanted to share their inner world with strangers.

You know that there is a city on the far side of the ocean. But you haven't yet found the ship, nor have you loaded your bags, nor crossed the sea. Why spend time commenting on what it is like, or how one should walk through its streets?

If what one finds is made of pure matter,it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.

What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want? You want to justify your life, to live it as intensely as possible. That is at once a trap and a source of ecstasy. Try to be alert to that danger and experience the joy and the adventure of being that woman who is beyond the image reflected in the mirror.

Las imágenes felices del pasado y las cosas que podrían haber sido y no fueron

True love could withstand such a separation.

Can you train yourself to love the right man? Of course you can. The problem is forgetting about the wrong man, the one passing by who came in a door that was left open without asking permission.

Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.

The World's a dangerous place. It doesn't matter where you are, your'e always at risk of being approached by people who have no scruples about attacking, destroying, killing. And we never learn how to defend ourselves. We're all in the hands of those powerful than us.

Sometimes war is necessary in order that we can finally find peace. Sometimes fear is necessary for the soul to find its path again.

I find myself through my readers; I understand what I wrote when I see that others understand it too.

We will not fear the darkness because we are partners of the light.

Do something instead of killing time, because time is killing you.

Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don't know something

Beklemek insana ac? verir. Unutmak ac? verir. Ama ne karar vereceÄŸini bilememek, ac?lar?n en büyüÄŸüdür.(s.117)

Worse than the composers' suffering, though, was the fact that the girl was playing the music with such soul because she knew she was going to die. And am not going to die? Where is my soul that I might play the music of my own life with such enthusiasm?