Quotes from Paulo Coelho

Iga asi on rituaal. Hoolikalt välja töötatud rituaal, mida igaüks püüab võimalikult täpselt sooritada, sest ta kardab, et kui mõni osa välja jääb, läheb kõik valesti. Selle rituaali nimi on rutiin.

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

You were not merely a person unjustly accused of espionage, but someone who dared to challenge certain customs. And for that you could not be forgiven. However

There's A Force that wants you to realize your personal legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success

He began to explain to me that vegetation, and especially mature trees, are able to transmit harmony when one rests one's nerve centers against a tree trunk. For hours he discoursed on the physical, energetic, and spiritual properties of plants.

Jealously would kill you from inside, if you water the plant of jealousy with anger instead of hard work

Angels are love in motion. They never rest, they struggle to grow, and they are beyond good and evil. Love that consumes all, that destroys all, that forgives all. Angels are made of that love, and are at the same time its messengers.

Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life, from one moment to the next. But there was the other side of the coin, the second thing that could make a human being take a totally different course from the one he or she had planned; and that was called despair. Yes, perhaps love really could transform someone, but despair did the job more quickly.

they are people who are not afraid of making mistakes and who do, therefore, make mistakes, which is why their work often goes unrecognised.

So, we, their hearts, speak more and more softly. We never stop speaking out, but we begin to hope that our words won't be heard: we don't want people to suffer because they don't follow their hearts.

Are the latter aware of their limitations, and do they know that life is short and wonder what point there is in going on?

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you. You're already familiar with the latter experience, allowing yourself to be swept along by fears, neuroses, insecurity, for all we have self-destructive tendencies.

It was the new moon that Veronika loved best because there was still room for it to grow, to expand, to fill the whole of its surface with light before its inevitable decline.

Shugendo means: "the way of the art of accumulating experience" - he replied, revealing that his interests go beyond the variety of insects in the region - By disciplining one's body to accept everything nature has to offer; in this way you will also educate your soul for that which God has to offer.

That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny.

Don't think about what you've left behind, the alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. Everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.

It was chosen by the archer and though it is a long way off, we cannot blame it when we fail to hit it. In this lies the beauty of the way of the bow: you can never excuse yourself by saying that your opponent was stronger than you.

Every second since then has been a struggle against my vices and against self-pity. I need to remain focused and calm, to do the work I chose to do with love, and never to cling to the present moment, because death is still very close, the abyss is there beside me, and I am walking along the edge.

The world speaks many languages, the boy thought

Near Tokyo lived a great Samurai warrior, now old, who decided to teach Zen Buddhism to young people. In spite of his age, the legend was that he could defeat any adversary.

The search for peace is a form of prayer that generates light and heat.Forget about yourself for awhile and understand that in that light lies wisdom and in that heat lies compassion.

Y, de nuevo, quien ama sale ganando, aunque no busque ninguna recompensa.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always tales us somewhere.

I ask myself how I can exist in two such different worlds in one day.