Quotes from Paulo Coelho

Live the life you always wanted to live. Avoid criticizing others and concentrate on fulfilling your dreams.

Instead of answering your question directly I shall quote from the Indian poet Tagore: "I slept and dreamt that life was joy/ I awoke and saw that life was service/I acted and behold, service was joy." In fact, through my work I discover life, people, and everything which happens around us.

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

I have a gift for inventing fantasies with extraordinary speed.

Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back, complained about everything, insulted their wife or were insulted by her, felt wretched, but were, nonetheless, tightly bound to their own unhappiness, not realizing that all it would take was a single gesture, a final goodbye, to free them from that oppression.

I love you because all the loves in the world are like different rivers flowing into the same lake where they meet and are transformed into a single love that becomes rain and blesses the earth.

Everything depends on which path you take.

Not everyone can see his dreams come true in the same way.

Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory. But human beings are like that,' she thought. 'We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

She wants to drink that man too, and then she can forget forever the cheap wine that you gulp down and that makes you feel drunk, but always leaves you with a headache and an empty space in your soul.

Cuando una persona desea realmente algo, el universo entero conspira para que pueda ralizar su sueño.

Infatuation was a good thing. It gave spice to life, and added to its enjoyment... But it was different from love. Love was worth everything, and couldn't be exchanged for anything.

The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other

For those that were never wounded by love, they will never be able to say: "I lived". Because they haven't.

No one can go back, but everyone can go forward.

I am going to sit here in the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. And if you go away, I will follow you--until you tell me to go away. Then I'll leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life..

Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.

Man struggles to survive, not to succumb

Do not seek to be loved at any price, because Love has no price.

Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other?

Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)

Success is falling down 7 times but getting up 8!

Don't forget:beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies.

Today don't beg, don't ask, just thank God in silence for all the blessings in your life.