We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
No one is alone during tribulations - there's always someone else thinking, rejoicing or suffering in the same way. This thought gives… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Don't be like those people who believe in 'positive thinking' and tell themselves that they're loved and strong and capable. You don't… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
What made you fall in love with a prostitute?” “I didn’t understand it myself at the time. But I’ve thought about it… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Love appears and says: "You think you're heading towards a specific point, but the whole justification for the goal's existence lies in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The journey towards the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don't fool yourself: the moment will come where… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Don't think about what you've left behind. If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. And one… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I came to realize that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their lovely, clean… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Sometimes the warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once. 'There is a bridge that links what I do… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I think we are afraid of each other when it comes to sex, because we read so much about sex, we talk… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I recalled how much time i had spent fighting for something i didn't even want. maybe because i had been too lazy… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
That is what marks out the warrior: the knowledge that willpower and courage are not the same thing. Courage can attract fear… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Don't think about what you've left behind" The alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Then she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When I'm dancing, I'm not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that's it. I don't tend… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I think bridges have a special meaning in our life. I think a book is a bridge. Any type of art is… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
So long as you do no harm to another, change your opinion once in a while. Contradict yourself without being embarrassed. This… — 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
