Quotes from Paulo Coelho

Use your bad moments to discover what makes you tremble. Use your good moments to find your road to inner peace. But do not stop either out of fear or out of joy.

We were born alone, and we will die alone. But while we are on this planet, we must accept and glorify our act of faith through other people.

El verdadero amor cambia con el tiempo y crece y descubre nuevas maneras de expresarse

the universe always favors those who fight for what they want.

Join with those who sing, tell stories, take pleasure in life, and have joy in their eyes, because joy is contagious and can prevent others from becoming paralyzed by depression, loneliness, and difficulties.

The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment. Whoever you met will reappear, whoever you lost will return. Don't betray the grace that was bestowed on you. Understand what is going on inside you and you will understand what is going on inside everyone else. Don't imagine that I came to bring peace. I came with a sword.

They are so very cultivated, so very rich and so utterly charming. At the end of each day, they all ask themselves: 'Is it time I stopped?' And they all reply: 'If I did, there would be no meaning to my life.' As if they actually knew what the meaning of life was.

When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.

A Warrior of the Light does not waste his time listening to provocations; he has a destiny to fulfill.

Success does not come from having one's work recognized by others. It is the fruit of a seed that you lovingly planted.

People never learn anything by being told, they have to findout for themselves.

But fist, I want you to understand one thing: apart from certain pathological cases, people only go insane when they try to escspe from routine.

What you still need to know is this: before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we've moved toward that dream. That's the point at which most people give up. It's the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.

the warrior knows that intuition is God's language and he continued listening to the wind and talking to the stars

Everything is important. If you live your life intensely, you experience pleasure all the time and don't feel the need for sex. When you have sex, it's out of a sense of abundance, because the glass of wine is so full that it overflows naturally, because it is inevitable, because you are responding to the call of life, because at that moment, and only at that moment, you have allowed yourself to lose control.

Well there is only one piece of advice I can give you' said the wisest of the wise men. 'The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never forget the drops of oil on the spoon

I want to continue being crazy, living my life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be.

When faced by any loss, there's no point in trying to recover what has been, it's best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new

We already have everything we need. There is nothing to improve. Thinking we are good or bad, fair or unfair, all that is nonsense.

Hearts can be treacherous, but the best way to keep them from fooling you is to listen to them intently

Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence.

People need not fear the unknown if they have a capable of achieving what they need and what

Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem.

However difficult the objective, there is always a way of overcoming obstacles. He seeks out alternative paths, he sharpens his sword, he tries to fill his heart with the necessary determination to face the challenge. But as he advances, the warrior realises that there are difficulties he had not reckoned with. If he waits for the ideal moment, he will never set of; he requires a touch of madness to take the next step.