Quotes from Paolo Coelho

Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.

I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.

Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.

I don't see any reason why I should look for someone who never took the trouble to love me.

If a man we don't know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing special, but nevertheless pays us the kind of attention we rarely receive, we're quite capable of going to bed with him that night, feeling relatively in love. That's what we women are like, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's the nature of the female to open herself to love easily.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of faliure.

Everything gets better in the end. If it's not better, it's not quite the end.

Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely.

In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose; now, in young adulthood, she was convinced it was too late to change.

Don't think about what you've left behind... everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.

When you dance, do you feel desire? Do you feel as if you were summoning up a greater energy? When you dance, are there moments when you cease to be yourself?

Outside, beyond what is right and wrong, there exists a vast field. We will find each other there

Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, live truly, forgive quickly.

It was best to put an end to everything now, while she was still brave and healthy enough to die

They spent days, nights, weeks and months talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice

Emporte dans ta mémoire, pour le reste de ton existence, les choses positives qui ont surgi au milieu des difficultés. Elles seront une preuve de tes capacités et te redonneront confiance devant tous les obstacles.