She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked. "Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The boy told himself that, on the way toward realizing his own destiny, he had learned all he needed to know, and… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It's the oasis," said the camel driver. "Well, why don't we go there right now?" the boy asked. "Because we have to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long… — 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
But when he thought to complain about the burden of its weight, he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and saw that it was part of the Soul of God. And… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer, the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Somewhere you are holding the person I love," the boy said. "So, when I look out over your sands, I am also… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
From that day on, it was the desert that would be important. She would look to it everyday, and would try to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Why do we have to listen to our hearts?” the boy asked, when they had made camp that day. “Because, wherever your… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The boy didn't know what a Personal Legend was. 'It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I've crossed these sands many times," said one of the camel drivers one night. "But the desert is so huge, and the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Why don’t people’s hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams?” the boy asked the alchemist. “Because that’s what makes a… — 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
Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested." The boy remembered an old proverb… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still… — 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 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
