Paulo Coelho Quotes

God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change

How can one set these opposite states in harmony? There is only one way: through giving oneself completely. How does one give oneself? By forgetting the traumas of the past, and by not forming expecta...

How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment to the next? I don't just mean people, but our ideas and dreams too: we might surviv...

How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.

I can’t explain why, I just know. Do you remember the first question I ever asked you? Yes, you asked me if I knew what being crazy meant. Exactly. This time I’m not going to tell you a story. I’ll ju...

I don't see why I should bother to look for someone who never took the trouble to love me.

I fell asleep and dreamed that life was only Happiness.I woke and discovered that life was Duty.I did my Duty and discovered that life was Happiness.

I have a gift for inventing fantasies with extraordinary speed.

I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.

I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.

I have learned to suffer in silence.

I have nothing and I am everything.

I have won important things for myself, but I'm going to destroy them, because I tell myself they have lost their meaning. I know that is not true. I know they are important, and that if I destroy the...

I imagine that some people spend years allowing the pressure to build up inside them without even noticing, and then one day some tiny incident triggers a crisis. Then they say: I’ve had enough, I don...

I learned something recently: our true friends are those 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 t...

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, wi...

I learned that the search for God is a Dark Night, that Faith is a Dark Night. And that’s hardly a surprise really, because for us each day is a dark night. None of us knows what might happen even the...

I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things. I learned that many alchemists realized their destinies, and wound up discoverin...

I love being with my family, feeling that I’m both protector and protected.

I love you because all the loves in the world are like different rivers flowing into the same lake where they meet and are transformed into a single love that becomes rain and blesses the earth.