Quotes from Paulo Coelho

Don't explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.

And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.

The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.

If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating.

The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes.

If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.

You say they create their own reality, said Veronika, but what is reality?

There is always a gap between intention and action..

Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.

Close some doors. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere.

I've been through all this before,' he says to his heart. " 'Yes, you have been through all this before,' replies his heart. 'But you have never been beyond it.

This time I m not going to tell you a story. I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there.

what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over

What made you fall in love with a prostitute?" "I didn't understand it myself at the time. But I've thought about it since, and I think it was because, knowing that your body would never be mine alone, I had to concentrate on conquering your soul.

Many people don't allow themselves to love...because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past.

If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise, said the seer. If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.

Whenever someone dies, a part of the universe dies too. Everything a person felt, experience and saw dies with them, like tears in the rain.

We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Death frees from the fear of dying

All love stories are the same.

Beware when making a woman cry. God is counting her tears.

You must always know what it is that you want.