Quotes from Paulo Coelho

If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.

I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous.

As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had no more rancor left in her heart. She had finally allowed her negative feelings to surface, feelings that had been repressed for years in her soul. She had actually FELT them, and they were no longer necessary, they could leave.

From the moment we are born, people tell us that the world is like this and like that, this way, that way. It is natural that - for a certain period of time - we end up believing what we are told. But we must soon push these ideas aside and discover our own way of living reality.

Love lasts because it changes and not because it stays the same and never faces any challenges.

If it's still in your mind, it is worth taking the risk

The srongest love is the love which is not afraid to show the weakness

And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.

What makes life interesting are the challenges we face.

She was doing it because she had nothing to lose, because her life was one of constant, day to day frustration.

That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you.

You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. " Chantal

only the defeated know LOVE. because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles - and generally lose ........

Only someone who can say 'I love you' is capable of saying 'I forgive you.

Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence.

The rain is falling ever harder and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I'm drenched but I can't move.

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

Trusting the one you love always brings good results.

It was all a matter of control. And Choice. Nothing more, nothing less

Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.

Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul. On the other hand, when the sun appeared, the children would come out to play in the streets, and everyone was happy that it was such a lovely day, and then I would feel terrible, as if that display of exuberance in which i could not participate was somehow unfair.

As he was about to climb yet another dune, his heart whispered, Be aware of the place where you are brought to tears. That's where I am, and thats where your treasure is.

However difficult it may be to accept what happens to us, one must understand that moments such as this give us the possibility for radical change in our behavior.

This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your generosity to the pilgrims.' 'But this payment goes well beyond my generosity,' the monk responded. 'Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.