Quotes from Paulo Coelho

Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

Relax...90% of haters are begging for love. 10% just want a little attention

Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.

We are all capable of achieving whatever we want and need.

Before I die, I want to fight for life.

No one should feel afraid of the unknown. Because everyone is capable of achieving everything he wants and needs.

And to know how to demand - with all one's might - what one wants

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

Remember that when you truly want something, the entire Universe conspires to make it happen.

I've discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer.

I was content in my universe and didn't want to change it at all, even though I was being propelled in that direction.

Believe that if Allah wants you to know something, someone will tell you.

The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

In true love you want your partner to be happy. In false love you want your partner.

You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

Everything new troubles us. Life catches us unawares and obliges us to journey towards the unknown, even when we do not want to, even when we do not need to.

When someone wants something then they should be aware that they are taking a risk. But this is precisely what makes life interesting.

Do not struggle against your thoughts; they are stronger than you are. If you want to be free of them, accept them.

You need to wake up if you want to dream.

My brained warned me, but my heart didn't want to take its advice.

You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. " Chantal