Paulo Coelho Quotes
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What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.
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I was arrested three times and tortured once.
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I learned something recently: our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives...
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E quando você quer alguma coisa, todo o Universo conspira para que você realize seu desejo.
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I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.
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Of giving, even when I have nothing,
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You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?
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Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
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When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
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The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions - hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity - also ceased to manifest themselves. After a while, the embittered person felt no desire at all. They lacked the will either to live or to die, that was the problem.
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There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
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If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.
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I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks. I love you like a river that gives water to the thirsty and takes people where they want to go.
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Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
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A disciple asked Hejasi:
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No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.
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In my world, everything is possible and everything is relative.
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As he mused about these things, he realised that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.
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I am going to sit here with you by the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. And if you go away, I will follow you - until you tell me to go away. Then I'll leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life.
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People aren’t used to that way of thinking. They want everything to stay the same-'