Quotes from Paulo Coelho

love doesn't ask many questions, because once we start thinking, we start to feel afraid. It's an inexplicable fear and there's no point putting it into words. Risks are there to be taken.

Perhaps love makes us old before our time - or young , if youth has passed

To love abundantly is to live abundantly. To love forever is to live forever. Eternal life is coupled with Love. Why do we want

I opened the window and my heart. The sun flooded the room and love inundated my soul.

El universo entero conspira para que tu leyenda personal se realice.

I hate being judged all the time and having to hide my fear, my emotions, my vulnerabilities. You think I'm a brave, talented young woman, who is never intimidated by anything. Well, you're wrong. Everything intimidates me. I avoid glances, smiles, close contact.

Everything on Earth is being continuously transformed.

It doesn't matter who's correct, what matters is who's right.

We are all the same instincts-- Good and Evil struggled between us. It was all a matter of control. And choice. Nothing more and nothing less.

There is no such thing as death. Life existed before we were born and will continue to exist after we leave this world. Same with love, it existed before and will go on forever.

Don't close your eyes to the Universe and then complain: 'It's dark.

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

We assume (falsely) that how we feel now is how we will feel in the future.

When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening .

If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination.

Well, then, why should I listen to my heart? the boy said Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet. Even if you pretend not to have heard what it tells you, it will always be there inside you, repeating to you what you're thinking about life and about the world.

But ever since he had been a child, he wanted to know the world, and this was much more important to him than knowing God and learning about man's sins.

Yes, I'm satisfied, but the problem is you're not, and never will be. You're insecure, afraid of losing everything you've achieved; you don't know how to quit once you're ahead. You'll end up destroying yourself. You're killing our marriage and my love.

Hunches," his mother used to call them. The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there.

Porque, en la vida real, el amor necesita ser posible. Incluso aunque no haya una retribución inmediata, el amor sólo consigue sobrevivir cuando existe la esperanza —por lejana que sea— de que conquistaremos a la persona amada. El resto es fantasía.

Sin was not created by God; it was created by us when we tried to transform what was inevitable into something subjective. We ceased to see that whold and came to see just one part; and that part is loaded with guild, rules, good versus evil, and each side thinking it's right. - Mata Hari

Really important meetings are planned by the soul long before the bodies see each other

No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around. No one sacrifices the most important thing she possesses: love. No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.

This morning, my son asked me for money to buy a sheep. Should I help him, do you think?" "Since it clearly isn't a matter of urgency, wait another week before giving him your answer." "But I have the means to help him now. What difference will a week make?" "A very great difference indeed. Experience has taught me that people only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been un-certain as to whether or not they'll get it.