Quotes from Paulo Coelho

Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down a wonderful opportunity simply because we don't know what to do with it.

The universe conspires to help the dreamer

If your rely only on experience, you'll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems. I know a lot of people who feel they have an identity only when they're talking about their problems. That way, they exist because their problems are linked to what they judge to be their history.

Like the sun, life spread its light in all direction.

The world does not divide into enemies and friends, but into the weak and strong.

We're living in an age in which everything is allowed, and democracy is being devoured and destroyed by that limitless freedom.

Where have you been? is not an empty question. anyone asking it is also saying I missed you, I want to be with you,I need to know what you've been up to

Anyone who does not share his moments of joy and discouragement with others will never fully know his own qualities and his own defects

Religion teaches that faith and transformation are the only ways of drawing near to God. Faith shows us that we are never alone. Transformation helps us to love the mystery.

Ciertas personas, en el afán de querer construir un mundo donde ninguna amenaza externa pueda penetrar, aumentan exageradamente sus defensas contra el exterior y dejan su interior desguarnecido.

Podemos cometer muchos errores en nuestras vidas, menos uno: aquel que nos destruye.

The optimist and the pessimist both die in the end, but each lives is life in a completely different way.

Two of the hardest decisions in life: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.

Everything is permitted, if everything is accepted.

No one loses anyone because no one owns anyone. That is true experience of freedom; having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

The aging process is more traumatic for those who think they can control the passage of time.

Now, though, I am convinces that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being

With the strength or our love and our will we can change our destiny as well as the destiny of many others.

Wait patiently for the right moment to act. Do not let the next opportunity slip. Take pride in your scars. Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle. Often this will lead them to seek dialogue and avoid conflict. Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.

Life does not play with marked cards.Winning or losing is part of it.

It was going to be impossible to escape her own trap, she would lose this man without ever really having him.

the music speaks for itself, there's no need to say anything

El sabio es sabio porque ama. El loco es loco porque piensa que puede entender el amor.