Quotes from Paulo Coelho

The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.

Possibly. Basically,everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went through, and they react completely differently. We looked for the easiest way out: a separate reality.

Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality.

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.

Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still to be alone with one's books. They tell their incredible stories at the time when you want to hear them. But when you're talking to people, they say some things that are so strange that you don't know how to continue the conversation.

We have to be prepared for change.

The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.

Where your treasure is, there also will be your heart.

You are your own best friend. Never ever, put yourself down.

When you love each other, you have to be ready for anything. Because love is like a kaleidoscope, the kind we used to play with when we were kids. It's in constant movement and never repeats itself. If you don't understand this, you are condemned to suffer for something that really only exists to make us happy.

no project is completed until its objective has been achieved.

Live to please the others, and everyone will love you, except yourself.

If you're asking me if I like your company, the answer is yes. If, on the other hand, you're asking me if I could live without you, the answer is also yes.

Every road i traveled led back to you

If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.

Her heart had already been broken many times over, and yet she still believed she was destined to meet the man of her life. 

Never fall in love. Love is a poison. Once you fall in love, you lose control over your life --- your heart and mind belong to someone else. Your existence is threatened. You start to do everything to hold on to your loved one and lose all sense of danger. Love, that inexplicable and dangerous thing, sweeps everything you are form the face of the earth and, in its place, leaves only what your beloved wants you to be. - Madame Guimet

If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.

I came to realize that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their lovely, clean faces, and saw myself reflected in them. They, on the other hand, looked at me and saw the dirt on my face and, however intelligent and self confident they were, they ended up seeing themselves reflected in me and thinking that they were worse than they were. Please don't let that happen to you.

On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop

if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests he did not create a single leaf the same as another.

Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.

True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do

Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life