Quotes from Paulo Coelho

When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.

The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.

Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.

Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too.

In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.

A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.

Believe that if Allah wants you to know something, someone will tell you.

The most important thing in human relationship is conversation.but people don't talk anymore,they don't sit down to talk and listen.They go to theatre,the cinema,watch television,listen to the radio,read books but they almost never talk.(pg114)

You came so that you could learn about your dreams, said the old woman. And dreams are the language of God. When he speaks in our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand.

A warrior cannot lower his head - otherwise he loses sight of the horizon of his dreams.

Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning. Don't give up. Remember, it's always the last key on the key ring that opens the door.

All things are manifestations of one thing only.

No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used.

Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have courage to complain, that's their problem.

Every day, God gives us the sun — and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy.

We are afraid of losing what we have.

Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to you will feed that dark side of your soul, where you consider yourself wronged, suffering, guilty and deserving punishment. If you choose to be an adventurer, the changes - even the inevitable losses, since everything in this world changes - can cause some pain, but will soon thrust you forward, forcing you to react.

What we see is not always what exists.

We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.

We are entering a new world in which we can choose to follow our own steps, not those that society forces us to take.

Love is an act of faith & its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling & emotion because if we try to decipher it & understand it, the magic disappears.

None of us can know what tomorrow will hold, because each day has its good and its bad moments.

Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the freedom that exists in the world of madness and becomes addicted to it. You no longer have to take on responsibilities, to struggle to earn your daily bread, to be bothered with repetitive, mundane tasks. You could spend hours looking at a picture or making absurd doodles. Everything is torelated because, after all, the person is mentally ill.

Although I have the colors, only the Lord can mix them with such harmony.