Quotes from Paulo Coelho

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.

Once someone asked me, What do you want to be your epitaph? So I said, Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

May God give you . . . For every storm, a rainbow, For every tear, a smile, For every care, a promise, And a blessing in each trial. For every problem life sends, A faithful friend to share, For every sigh, a sweet song, And an answer for each prayer.

yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments- but all of this is transitory; it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.

It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge.

Succes doesn't not come from having one's work recognised by others. It is the fruit of a seed that you lovingly planted.

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 the whole and came to see just one part; and that part is loaded with guilt, rules, good versus evil, and each side thinking it's right.

It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.

Every moment of searching is a moment of encounter.

You can't spend the whole day waiting for night to come.

life is really generous to those who pursue their Personal Legend

The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one.

You told me that all life's battles teach us something, even those we lose.

Love your enemy. But don't forget he is not your friend.

Could it be fear? But what could be worse than living a sad, gray life, in which every day is the same? What could be worse than the fear that everything will disappear, including my own soul, and leave me completely alone in this world when I once had everything I needed to be happy?

Dreamers can't be tamed.

Come on, let's go. Crazy people do crazy things.

fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.

Fortunate are those who take the first step. Someday people will realize that men and women are capable of speaking the language of the angels - that all of us are possessed of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and that we can perform miracles, cure, prophesy, and understand.

Happiness is contagious and will always manage to find a solution.

They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing.

I love this man sitting before me now, because I do not possess him and he does not possess me. We are free in our mutual surrender; I need to repeat this dozens, hundreds, millions of times, until I finally believe my own words.