Quotes from Paulo Coelho

And to those who believe that adventures are i say try routine: it kills you far more quickly.

It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.

What is outside is harder to change than what is inside.

we can harness the energy of the winds, the seas, the sun . But the day man learns to harness the energy of love, that will be as important as the discovery of fire.

Hurry up: your dreams are waiting for you, but they will not wait forever

God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.

Record things in your heart. It's more important than trying to show people what you're experiencing.

She asks him to touch her, to feel her with his hands, because bodies always understand each other, even when souls do not.

He's been sent by the devil to destabilize something that was already fragile. How could I fall in love so quickly with someone I don't even know?

Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.

I've crossed these sands many times, said one of the camel drivers one night. But the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent. The boy understood intuitively what he meant, even without ever having set foot in the desert before. Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.

Even If you're doing the same thing over & over, U need to discover something new, fantastic & unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before.

Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.

If what one finds is made of pure matter; it will never spoil. and one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing in return.

No matter how you are feeling, get up every morning and prepare to let your light shine forth.

My smile is my way of saying: You can destroy my body, but not my soul.

She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault of that insecure little boy, who had given up after the first attempt.

You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.

Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle.

Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.

I'm like everyone else - I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.

Love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that good enough is very different from best.

A writer once said that it is not time that changes man, nor knowledge; the only thing that can change someone's mind is love. What nonsense! The person who wrote that clearly knew only one side of the coin.