Quotes from Paulo Coelho

People destroy what they love.

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready.

People only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they'll get it.

If he waits for the ideal moment, he will never set off; he requires a touch of madness to take the next step. The warrior uses that touch of madness. For - in both love and war - it is impossible to foresee everything.

That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why I will never lose you.... ......... I will always remember you, and you will remember me, just as we will remember the evening, the rain on the window, and all the things we'll always have because we cannot possess them

It has been said that there is no such thing as coincidence in this world.

really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.

I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.

The future would end up finding out the truth about the past.

In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die? No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.

Defeat exists but not suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle, he is improving the skill with which he wields a sword. He will be able to fight more skilfullly next time.

Truth resides where there is faith.

They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.

Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. Once upon a time is how all the best children's stories begin, and prostitute is a word for adults. How can I start a book with this apparent contradiction? But since, at every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss, let's keep that beginning.

But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation.

There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.

Things do not always happen the way I would have wanted, and it's best that I get used to that.

I fell asleep and dreamed that life was only Happiness. I woke and discovered that life was Duty. I did my Duty and discovered that life was Happiness.

Not even your love could withhold you from fulfilling your own personal legend.

simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them.

Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.

Nobody is worth your tears, and the one who is won't make you cry