Quotes from Paulo Coelho

Time heals almost everything. But when you are healed, you are too old to enjoy

Sometimes, when loneliness seems about to crush everything, the only way to resist is to keep on loving.

Pianos should never go out of tune. The true sin is something different than what we've been taught; the true sin is living so far removed from absolute harmony. That is more powerful than the truths and lies we tell every day. I

you don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago

Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity. Anyone who fails to recognize problems leaves the door open for tragedies to rush in.

Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what we are doing; but it becomes a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of life.

the power of beauty:what must the world be like for ugly women?

If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.

We are bound to our lives, to our pasts, to the laws of what we consider right or wrong, and suddenly, everything changes. We

The world has never been as divided as it is now.

Someone once said that the earth produces enough to satisfy needs, but not enough to satisfy greed

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Each arrow flies differently. You can shoot a thousand arrows and each one will follow a different trajectory: that is the way of the bow.

There is nothing wrong with anxiety. Although we cannot control God's time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the thing we are waiting for as quickly as possible. Or to drive away whatever is causing our fear.... Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it-just as we have learned to live with storms.

The celebrity syndrome. When people forget who they are and start to believe what other people say about them. The Superclass, everyone's dream, a world without shadows or darkness, where yes is the only possible answer to any request.

Life is like a garden, you reap what you sow

It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness

Es necesario correr riesgos, decía. Sólo entendemos del todo el milagro de la vida cuando dejamos que suceda lo inesperado. Todos los días Dios nos da, junto con el sol, un momento en el que es posible cambiar todo lo que nos hace infelices. Todos los días tratamos de fingir que no percibimos ese momento, que ese momento no existe, que hoy es igual que ayer y será igual que mañana.

The best way to prepare for a challenge is to cultivate the ability to call on an infinite variety of responses.

I ask myself: Are Defeats necessary ? Well,necessary or not, they happen. When we first begin fighting for our dream, we've no experience and make many mistakes. The Secret of life, though,is to fall seven times and to get up eight times !

The Marquis De Sade said that the most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.

He tried to deal with the concept of love as distinct from possession, and couldn't separate them.

When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a story current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

It's a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your Personal Legend. It prepares your spirit and your will, because there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.