“Not everything in life is a long train with tickets available to all.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Men who have nothing to lose never give a thought for eternal life.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The three classic ways in which the Devil tempts us are with a threat, a promise or a seduction. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
One can abandon one's personal legend for a time, as long as one does not forget about it entirely and returns to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Love is a complicated path, and that path can lead us up to heaven or hurl us down into hell. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
He remembers the five rules of combat set down by Chuan Tzu - faith, companions, time, space and strategy. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Sometimes we have only ten minutes to be with the love of our life and thousands of hours to spend thinking about… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“life can seem either very long or very short, according to how you live it.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You dont choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Pain, loss and separation are inevitable on the path of love, and the only way of avoiding them is by deciding not… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The brave are those who make decisions despite their fear, who are tormented by the Devil every step of the way and… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The issue is not answering questions, but leaving discussions open. Not in the sense that probably one day you are going to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Firstly, by learning the great lesson of wise men: patience, the certainty that everything - both good and bad - is provisional… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Until one day when, as well as his spiritual death, physical death appears; at that moment God will ask: "what did you… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
She wasn't afraid of difficulties, what frightened her was having to choose one particular path. Choosing a path meant missing out on… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“There's nothing deeper than love. In fairytales , the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“A man runs into an old friend who had somehow never been able to make it in life. "I should give him… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Often, during combat, the warrior of light receives blows that he was not expecting. And he realizes that, during a war, his… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life, from one moment to the next. But there… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It (destiny) is what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“If he looked back on what his life had been lately, he had perhaps managed two or three days when he had… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Once the soul has left the body it had to walk across a bridge as narrow as a knife edge, with paradise… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not what I… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share
You dont choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share
To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share
It is not enough to dream of the Impossible Love - it is necessary to conquer it too. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share
People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share
“Joy is like sex – it begins and ends. I want pleasure. I want to be contended, but happiness? I no longer fall into… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share
I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share
The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share
She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share
