Quotes from Paulo Coelho

When someone leaves, its because someone else is about to arrive- I'll find love again.

She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.

The wise are wise only because they love. And the foolish are foolish only because they think they can understand love.

In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better days ahead, as, I suspect is your case. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the fate awaits those who believe promises.

What hurts us is what heals us

The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.

Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with.

She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.

That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.

To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges.

You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life.

Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, Oh, the book is better.

If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.

We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us,...

Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.

The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.

Nothing in this world happens by chance.

If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world

Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.

Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.