Quotes from Paulo Coelho

Here we believe that God has already done His part; now it is up to us to continue the process.

Men always have their reasons. But the fact is that they always wind up leaving.

For most people generosity consists only in giving and yet receiving is also an act of love.allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too

That's what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.

Don't Forget! She shouted as she walked away. Love persevered. It's the men who change.

When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue.

Even if I were not able to find my sword, the pilgrimage along the Road to Santiago was going to help me to find myself.

Look around. And don't get close to people who make you suffer.

Most human beings still cannot trust love.

so you , too , must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make you a better person

The Warrior knows that no man is an island. He cannot fight alone; whatever his plan, he depends on other people. He needs to discuss his strategy, to ask for help, and, in moments of relaxation, to have someone with whom he can sit by the fire, someone he can regale with tales of battle.

We are used to thinking that what we give is the same as what we receive, but people who love, expecting to be loved in return, are wasting their time. Love is an act of faith, not an exchange.

To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation.

Be transparent in your actions, and secret in your plans

The Secret of Happiness lies in looking at all the wonders of the world and never forgetting the two drops of oil in the spoon.

Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive... and it has a soul. We are part of that soul...

We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be. It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility.

If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.

It's better to lose some of battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you're fighting for.

I had never heard her sound so calm, so resigned to her fate. She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on.

Society had more and more rules, and laws that contradicted the rules, and new rules that contradicted the laws. People felt too frightened to take even a step outside the invisible regulations that guided everyone's lives.

the grandeur of God reveals itself through simple things

Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy!

Love never comes just a little bit at a time, I thought, as I watched him, absorbed in contemplation of the Virgin. The previous day, the world made sense, even without love's presence. But now we needed each other in order to see the true brilliance of things.