Quotes from Paulo Coelho

Don't fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul.

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain.

Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.

I love you because all the loves in the world are like different rivers flowing into the same lake where they meet and are transformed into a single love that becomes rain and blesses the earth.

The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us.

Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.

God created the visible world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom

... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.

Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.

He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom.

In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred.

Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong.

With the rain, falls the wisdom of heaven.

I don't set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority.

I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.

Be creative. Men only learnt how to fly when they stopped imitating birds.

All men are different. And should do everything possible to continue to be so.

The biggest mistake of the man is that he thinks he doesn't deserve the good and the bad things from his life.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

MySpace is my wife... Facebook is my mistress.