Quotes from Paulo Coelho

He needs both patience and speed.

Why is patience so important?""Because it makes us pay attention.

The third indication that our dreams are dead is peace.

Philosophy can't build bridges, but can encourage people to cross them.

At life's most significant moments, we are always alone

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.

Don't be like those people who believe in "positive thinking" and tell themselves that they're loved and strong and capable. You don't need to do that because you know it already.

Straight roads do not make skillful drivers.

When two people fall in love, past and future disappear.

Our soul is governed by four invisible forces: love, death, power and time.

Everyday God gives us the sun, and also the moment in wich have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Our magic moment helps us to change and send us off in search of our dreams.

God has a prepared path for us to follow. We just have to read the omens he has left for us.

When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move forward.

It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.

The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation.

Omens are the individual language in which God talks to you. My omens are not your omens.

I'm not worried about tomorrow, because God is there already, waiting for me.

signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is guiding us.

The boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and saw that it was part of the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles.

Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)

Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him.