Quotes from Paulo Coelho

To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation.

Even though I complain sometimes, it said, it's because I'm the heart of a person, and people's hearts are that way. People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.

I'm a cornered tiger with nowhere to run; the only option that remains is to attack.

Love accepts its companion unconditionally and allow each to grow in his or her own way.

Life is like cooking: before choosing what you love, try everything... ?

As though everything truly had to be faced without fear, as a mere fact of life - we don't choose the things that happen to us, but we can choose how we react to them.

Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.

Then she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain - which started a fraction of a second later - was typical of the Earth. Ah, that Earth pain - unique, unmistakable.

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

In a war, the first casualty is human dignity.

It isn't what you did in the past that will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

Stay insane, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention. Concentrate on this flower and allow the real I to reveal itself.

It's better to live cherishing a dream than face the possibilty that it might all come to nothing.

Nature is telling us: Change!

You are born, go to school, and attend university in search of a husband. You get married - even if he is the worse man in the world - just so that others can't say no one wants you. You have children, grow old, and spend the end of your days watching passersby from a chair on the sidewalk, pretending to know everything about life yet unable to silence the voice in your heart that says: You could try something else.

Worshiping someone means...placing that person outside of our world. We are not worshiping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with Creation.

The world has never been as divided as it is now, what with religious wars, genocides, a lack of respect for the planet, economic crisis, depression, poverty, with everyone wanting instant solutions to at least some of the world's problems or their own. And things only look bleaker as we head into future.

It's the simple things in life that are the most extaordinary;

I know how you must be feeling," she went on. "Sometimes we set off down a path simply because we don't believe in it. It's easy enough. All we have to do then is prove that it isn't the right path for us. However, when things start to happen, and the path does reveal itself to us, we become afraid of carrying on.

Time that never ends, that never passes, that remains in the present, where all of life's secrets lie.

Jika kau menginginkan sesuatu, maka seluruh alam semesta akan bersatu membantumu.

Don't let other's say That road is better or That route is easier. The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions.

We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.

True love, is the love that seduces and will never allow itself to be seduced.