Quotes from Paulo Coelho

The moments that precede sleep are very similar to death. We are filled by a torpor and it is impossible to know when the 'I' takes on a different form. Our dreams are our second life. I am incapable of going through the doors that lead us to that invisible world without a shiver.

I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.

I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.

I am love, I am music, she thinks. Let's dance.

La folie, c'est l'incapacité de communiquer ses idées. Comme si tu te trouvais dans un pays étranger : tu vois tout, tu perçois ce qui se passe autour de toi, mais tu es incapable de t'expliquer et d'obtenir de l'aide parce que tu ne comprends pas la langue du pays. -Nous avons tous ressenti ça un jour -Nous somme tous fou, d'une façon ou d'une autre.)

Even though I complain sometimes it's because I'm the heart of a person. People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them. We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or of treasures that might have been found but were forever hidden in the sands. Because, when these things happen, we suffer terribly.

For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.

Those who truly want the best of us want us to be happy.

Quiza el amor no envejece antes de tiempo, y nos vuelve jovenes cuando pasa la juventud.

Se o que encontraste é feito de matéria pura, jamais apodrecerá. E poderás voltar um dia. Se foi apenas um momento de luz, como a explosão de uma estrela, então não vais encontrar nada quando voltares. Mas terás visto uma explosão de luz. E só isso já terá valido a pena.

Yes, it's difficult to talk to your heart, and perhaps it isn't even necessary. We simply have to trust and follow the signs and live our Personal Legend; sooner or later, we will realize that we are all part of something, even if we can't understand rationally what that something is.

Those who try to kill the body violate God's law. Those who try to kill the soul also violate God's law, even though their crime is less visible to others. By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

The girl would grow up marked by tragedy and, when she was twenty, would use her own suffering to help alleviate that of others. She would eventually do work of such vital importance that it would have an impact all over the world.

The lack of attention to the smallest details can completely destroy a man's life

Why am I unhappy? The question carries with it the virus that will destroy everything.

It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.

When you want something with all of your heart, the universe conspires to helping you achieve it - The Alchemist

When you choose your attitude toward life, you can affect reality by making it better for you

Living as human being and as a divinity. moving from tension into relaxation, from relaxation into trance, from trance into a more intense contact with other people. from that contact back into tension and so on, Like The Serpent swallowing its own tail.

What was broken will never be the same again

We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that's of no use in the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It's always new.

Loyalty has its roots in respects, and respect is the fruit of Love.

Wherever you it is that you want to see the face of God, there you will see it. And if you don't want to see it, it doesn't matter, so long as you are performing good works.

I am who I was and who I will be.