Paulo Coelho Quotes
The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time. The second indication of the death of our dreams is certainty. The third indication that our dreams are dead is peace.
What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars.
The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love.
This was freedom; to feel what the heart desired with no thought to the opinion of the rest... She was free, for love liberates.
The boy told himself that, on the way toward realizing his own destiny, he had learned all he needed to know, and had experienced everything he might have dreamed of.
Although I have been through all that I have, I do not regret the many hardships I met, because it was they who brought me to the place I wished to reach.
The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles.
Many people don't allow themselves to love...because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past.
The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.
When you close that door to nowhere throw away the key, we have a tendency to look back and regret
It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.
But now I knew that true love was above all that and that it would be better to die than to fail to love.
The rain is falling ever harder, and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I’m drenched, but I can’t move. I don’t want to leave, because I don’t know where to go
I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.
We can never found the soul, just as we can never wound God, but we become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched, even when we have everything we need in order to be happy.
Fashion is merely a saying: I belong to your world. I'm wearing the same uniform as your army, so don't shoot.
What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.
It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge.
In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change.
I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.
I’ve been through all this before,’ he says to his heart. “ ‘Yes, you have been through all this before,’ replies his heart. ‘But you have never been beyond it.
She was doing it because she had nothing to lose, because her life was one of constant, day to day frustration.
You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.
