Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. I don't want anything else in life. But you are forcing me to look at wealth… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Thy will be done, my Lord. Because you know the weakness in the heart of your children, and you assign each of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If only we could be enlightened enough to be able to listen in the silence. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Anyone who has known happiness will never again be able humbly to accept sadness. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Respect your soul: don't keep repeating "I'm going to make it". Your soul already knows that, what it needs is to use… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Each human being has his or her own sexual identity and should be able to exercise that identity without guilt as long… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There are neither winners nor losers; there are only stages that must be gone through. When the human heart understands this, it… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold? The tree says to the leaf:… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If we resist the temptation to allow other people to define who we are, then we will gradually be able to let… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When you travel you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Defeat exists but not suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle, he is improving the skill with which… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Lord, protect our decisions, because making Decision is a way of praying. Give us the courage after our doubts, to be able… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
This time I m not going to tell you a story. I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will… — 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 Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — 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 accept them… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It is not enough to dream of the Impossible Love - it is necessary to conquer it too. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image