Quotes from Paulo Coelho

Love can take us to heaven or hell, but it always takes us somewhere. Therefore, be prepared to travel...

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.

A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks: "Aren't you tired of waiting?" "Yes," answers the rose, "but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.

Choosing a path means having to miss out on others

music isn't just something that comforts or distracts us, it goes beyond that - it's an ideology. you can judge people by the kind of music they listen to.

I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly

Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.

This is why alchemy exists, the boy said. So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than he was in his former life. Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead; and then lead will have to turn itself into gold. That's what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.

With love, there are no rules. The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.

Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

God has a prepared path for us to follow. We just have to read the omens he has left for us.

Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.

No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around.

Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us?

Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.

everyone knows how to love because we are all born with that gift.

Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.

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. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.

Life is always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination she was making love with men of all skin colors--white, black, yellow--with homosexuals and beggars. She was anyone's, and anyone could do anything to her. She had one, two, three orgasms, one after another. She imagined everything she had never imagined before, and she gave herself to all that was most base and most pure.

We are the ones who create the messes in our heads. It does not come from outside.