Quotes from Paulo Coelho

Its best to live as if it were the first and last day of my life.

Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love... the love that speaks the Language of the World.

When everything seems to be going well and your dream is almost within your gasp, that is when you must be more alert than ever.

Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and preconceptions of their era. They have been able to sing, to laugh, and to pray out loud; they have danced and shared what Saint Paul called 'the madness of saintliness'. They have been joyful - because those who love conquer the world and have no fear of loss. True love is an act of total surrender.

Beware of anyone who tries to please you all the time.

Everyone is indeed crazy but the craziest are those who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.

In life's most significant moments we are always alone.

In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.

To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

When we don't know where life is taking us, we are never lost.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself.

When mouths close, it's because there's something important to be said.

I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who silently fulfil the role life has given them. I want to be able to do this because the most important things, those that shape our existence, are precisely the ones that never show their faces.

If we are alone, we become more alone. Life is strange

Isn't wine prohibited here? the boy asked. It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil, said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

If we seek something, that same thing is seeking us.

You only need to hide if you're doing something you shouldn't.

When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.

I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.

Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people, new places, different experiences and leave their own world stripped bare. It is there that bitterness begins irrevocable work.

There is no time to leave important words unsaid.

What is a personal calling? It is God's blessing, it is the path that God chose for you here on Earth. Whenever we do something that fills us with enthusiasm, we are following our legend. However, we don't all have the courage to confront our own dream.

A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.