Quotes from Paulo Coelho

Love is much like a dam: If you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force and current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.

Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.

There are no risk in Love, as you'll find out for yourself. People have been searching for and finding each other for thousands of years. Suddenly, he realised that the might be wrong. There was always a risk, a single risk: that one person might meet with more thatn one Soulmate in the same incarnation...

If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps...

Joy is like sex – it begins and ends. I want pleasure. I want to be contended, but happiness? I no longer fall into that trap.

One of Love's qualities--namely, Forgiveness.

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

You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.

In fact , the life is generous with who lives his personal legend.

She [the Virgin Mary] was normal. She had already had other children. The Bible tells us that Jesus had two brothers. Virginity, as it relates to Jesus, is based on a different thing: Mary initiated a new generation of grace. A new era began. She is the cosmic bride, Earth, which opens to the heavens and allows itself to be fertilized.

One way or another, I have wound up destroying what I've loved. I've seen my dreams fall apart just when I seemed to achieve them. I always thought that was just the way life was. My life and everybody else's.

La conciencia de la muerte nos anima a vivir más

The reason why people fail to achieve their dreams is because they stop pursuing them.

You drown not by falling in the river but by staying submerged in it.

People become fascinated with pictures and words, and wind up forgetting the Language of the World

a warrior of the light is always committed. He is the slave of his dream and free to act

It was a mistake that set the world in motion. Never be afraid of making a mistake.

Let yourself get carried away by the night from time to time. Look up at the stars and try to get drunk on the sense of infinity. The night, with all its charms, is also a path to enlightenment. Just as a dark well has thirst-quenching water at its bottom, the night, whose mystery brings us closer to the mystery of God, has a flame capable of enkindling our soul hidden in its shadows.

It's the thought of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. All things happen for a reason.

If you say it was the last time, it might well turn out to be the last. What you meant was the most recent time I was here.

Then there are those who plant. they endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But, unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener's constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure.

Saat kamu menginginkan sesuatu, seluruh alam semesta akan bersatu membantumu meraihnya.

When things start to happen, and the path does reveal itself to us, we become afraid of carrying on

There is only one way to learn. It's through action.