Paulo Coelho Quotes

I savour the idea of my new state: single and a millionaire.

We live in a vale of tears...We can have all the dreams we like, but life is hard, implacable, sad.

What we see is not always what exists.

Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits.

Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love.

Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it.

That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.

Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read.

And the person who loves wholeheartedly feels free.

He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.

No life is complete without a touch of madness.

No one should let themselves get used to anything.

May my tears run just as far, that my love might never know that one day I cried for him.

With love, there are no rules. The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.

There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.

You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.

What hurts us is what heals us.

We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.

True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do

Break a pact. Accept forgiveness. Make a bet.

He hadn't a cent in his pocket, but he had faith !

People never leave, we are always here in our past and future lives.

Every road i traveled led back to you

The only reason I don't throw myself into your arms, kiss you and make love with you now is that I lack the courage and am afraid of loving you.

A man only has a soul to be won or lost.

When we are walking our chosen path, we walk elegantly, emanating light.

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

When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.

It is the imperfect that astonishes and attracts us.

Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible, and it manifests itself in the light that flows in our eyes.

I cannot lose the one thing that keeps me alive : hope -

You cannot trust a person until you know where and how he lives

To each of man's ages the Lord gives its own anxieties.

Perhaps love makes us grow old before our time and makes us young again when youth has passed.

Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.

Never asking a direct question, even though the other person can guess what it is you want to know.

Believing that art is either worth a fortune or worth nothing at all.

Despising anything that was easy to achieve because if no sacrifice was involved, it obviously isn't worth having.

He rarely knows the result of a battle when the battle is over.

He also knows the power of word.

You have always fought against your dreams, and 'I want' has never even shown its face. It was always drowned out by 'I must' or 'I hope' or 'I need...'

Not knowing whether to wait or to forget is the worst kind of suffering.

To one who knocks, the door will open.

Never stop dreaming and follow the omens.

Whenever a religion tightens it's rules, a significant number of people break away and go in search of more freedom in their search for spiritual contact.

Everything moves, and everything moves to a rhythm. And everything that moves to a rhythm creates a sound. At this moment, the same thing is happening here and everywhere else in the world.

Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.