Quotes from Paulo Coelho

Love creates bridges where it would seem they were impossible.

I love you', though, were three words she had often heard during her twenty-two years, and it seemed to her that they were now completely devoid of meaning, because they had never turned into anything serious or deep, never translated into a lasting relationship.

These seeds will always be tulips, even if at the moment you cannot tell them apart from other flowers. They will never turn into roses or sunflowers, no matter how much they might desire to. And if they try to deny their own existence, they will live life bitter and die.

And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.

The story of one person is the story of all of humanity.

The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change: Yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.

Freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that smile is dimmed with tears.

Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by.

They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born.

You still haven't managed to heal the scars left by some of the injustices committed against you in your life and it doesn't do you any good. All it does is feed a constant desire to feel sorry for yourself, because you were the victim of people stronger than you. Or else it makes you go to the other extreme and disguise yourself as an avenger ready to strike out at the people who hurt you. Isn't that a waste of time?...It is human, but it's not intelligent or reasonable.

Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.......above all dont forget to follow your destiny through to its conclusion

That the truest experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.

Love does not to be understood. It needs only to be shown.

It feels like my soul is slowly leaving my body and heading off to an unknown place, some safe place where it doesn't have to put up with me and my night terrors.

What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars.

Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.

If what you found was made from pure matter, it will never spoil. And you can come back one day. If it was just one moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you will find nothing on your return. But you would have seen an explosion of light. And that alone would already be worth the journey.

A life is never useless. Each soul that came down to Earth is here for a reason.

When in doubt, just take the next small step

The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.

Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul. Because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take.

He hadn't a cent in his pocket, but he had faith !

With every farewell comes a hidden hope.