Quotes from Paulo Coelho

Faith as tiny as a grain of sand allows us to move mountains.

The boy knew that in money there was magic; whoever has money is never really alone.

When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.

The acomodador or giving-up point: there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us failing to progress: a trauma, a particularly bitter defeat, a disappointment in love, even a victory that we did not quite understand, can make cowards of us and prevent us from moving on. As part of the process of increasing his hidden powers, the shaman must first free himself from that giving-up point and, to do so, he must review his while life and find out where it occured.

But emotions were, indeed, wild horses and they demanded to be heard. Brida let them run free for a while until they grew tired

Buddhists say that a fixed smile, however false, lights up the soul.

With love, there are no rules. Some may try to control their emotions and develop strategies for their behavior; others may turn to reading books of advice from experts on relationships - but this is all folly. The heart decides, and what it decides is all that really matters.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love.

That's the way it always is, said the old man. It's called the principle of favorability. When you play cards the first time, you are almost sure to win. Beginner's luck. Why is that? Because there is a force that wants you to realize your destiny; it whets your appetite with a taste of success.

Kita hanya bisa memahami keajaiban hidup secara penuh ketika membiarkan yang tak terduga untuk terjadi.

We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us.

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone

He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence.

The spiritual path can only be traveled through the daily experience of love.

When you are going through difficult times, remember: you might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here.

His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.

Break a pact. Accept forgiveness. Make a bet.

When I asked you if you wanted to, I was not testing your courage. I was testing your wisdom.

The great wisdom of life is to realize that we can be the master of the things that try to enslave us.

But when he thought to complain about the burden of its weight, he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had withstood the cold of the dawn. We have to be prepared for change, he thought, and he was grateful for the jacket's weight and warmth. The jacket had a purpose, and so did the boy.

At that moment, Maria learned that certain things are lost forever.

When you travel, you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes more slowly, and on most journeys you don't even understand the language the people speak.

Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him.