Quotes from Paulo Coelho

It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger

I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say. That way, you'll never have to fear an unanticipated blow.

and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.

When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

Collective madness is called sanity ..

People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.

We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.

Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.

Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.

Ever since time began, people have recognized their true Love by the light in their eyes.

At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.

To love is to lose control.

God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.

Everyone believes the world's greatest lie... says the mysterious old man. What is the world's greatest lie? the little boy asks. The old man replies, It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments — but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.

But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.

Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.

In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.

Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.

Of all the ways we have found to hurt ourselves, the worse has been through love. We are always suffering because of someone who doesn't love us, or someone who has left us, or someone who won't leave us. If we are alone, it is because no one wants us...