Quotes from Paulo Coelho

Our soul is governed by four invisible forces: love, death, power and time.

Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary. Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them because we have been taught that we must follow certain formulas and rules if we want to find God. We do not realize that God is wherever we allow Him/Her to enter.

Life is too short to waste time complaining Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear

All this was new to me. Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move towards the unknown - even when we don't want to and we think we don't need to.

Only cowards hide behind silence.

Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.

What's the world's greatest lie? the boy asked, completely surprised. It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

If a person is living out his destiny, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask Gd to give me th courage to mercilessly pluck it out.

You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.

Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge. If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.

Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable.

Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision.

Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.

Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side.

One day, I am going to write a travel guide containing only maps and addresses of hotels, and with the rest of the pages blank. That way, people will have to make their own initery, to discover themselves restaurants, monuments and all the magnificent things that every city has, but which are never mentioned because ' the history we have been taught' does not include them in the list of things you must see.

life can seem either very long or very short, according to how you live it.

We must at all costs avoid saying no because people prefer those who say yes, and this allows us to survive in hostile territory.

Mencintai adalah melebur dengan orang yang kita cintai dan menemukan percikan Tuhan di dalam dirinya.

Go further than you planned. Ask for the moon: you will be surprised how often you get it

From that day on, it was the desert that would be important. She would look to it everyday, and would try to guess which star the boy was following in search of his treasure. She would have to send her kisses on the wind hoping that the wind would touch the boy's face, and would tell him that she was alive.

Transformations always occur during moments of crisis.