Quotes from Paulo Coelho

It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.

Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.

Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.

Love doesn't need to be discussed; it has its own voice and speaks for itself.

Warriors of light are not perfect.Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.

I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure

I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.

The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort

Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.

I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we're alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.

All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion is also choosing a collective way for worshipping and sharing the mysteries. Nevertheless, that person is the only one responsible for his or her actions along the way and has no right to shift responsibility for any personal decisions on to that religion.

We aren't who we want to be. We are what society demands. We are what our parents choose. We don't want to disappoint anyone; we have a great need to be loved. So we smother the best in us. Gradually, the light of our dreams turns into the monster of our nightmares. They become things not done, possibilities not lived.

I'm afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.

If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.

Love isn't just a feeling. It's an art. And like any art, it takes not only inspiration but also a lot of work.

To become really good at anything,you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive

The Warrior of the Light is a believer. Because he believes in miracles, miracles begin to happen. Because he is sure that his thoughts can change his life, his life begins to change. Because he is certain that he will find love, love appears.

Free again, but it's just a feeling; freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit yourself to what is best for you.

You could tell your soul mate by the light in their eyes, and since the time began, that has been how people have recognized their true love.

If I believe I will win, then victory will believe in me.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

I wanted to...feel hatred and love, despair and tedium-- all those simple, yet foolish things that make up everyday life but that give pleasure to your existence. If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy, Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they are crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.

When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal.

I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears