“The best way to avoid trouble is to share responsibility,” his father had taught him.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Many parents make mistakes with their children, thinking they know what's best for them.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We must never make our parents sad, even if this means giving up everything that makes us happy.. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“You told me a love story. I honestly believe your parents wanted the best for you, but their love almost destroyed your… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong, my dear', said her father, looking at the clock. 'Even a stopped clock is… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“How's the water?" asked her father. "It's lovely," she replided. "Right, from now on, whenever you want to find out about something,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If God is Mother, then we need only gather together with people and adore her through rituals intended to satisfy the female… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Please, God, my Mother, don't give up until I've taken on the shape that you wish for me, Do this by whatever… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“He’s living with artists!” said his mother tearfully to the ambassador. “Oh, leave the boy alone,” said the ambassador. “He’ll soon get… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The parents always insisted on telling their child that their secret friends didn't exist - perhaps because they had forgotten that they… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I receive your love and I give you mine. Not the love of a man for women, not the love of a… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Up until then, travel and the idea of going far away had just been a dream, and dreaming is very pleasant as… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“People from all over the world have passed through this village, son," said his father. "They come in search of new things,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
O God, when I listen to the voices of animals, the sounds of trees, the murmurings of water, the singing of birds,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“He takes us to a beautiful building where, in 1754, a man killed his own brother. The brothers' father resolved to build… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Break the glass, I thought to myself, because it is a symbolic gesture. Try to understand that within myself, things were breaking… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“A boy and a girl were insanely in love with each other,” my mother’s voice was saying. “They decided to become engaged.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The boy could see in his father's gaze a desire to be able, himself, to travel the world—a desire that was still… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“and dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“She thinks about the other prostitutes who work with her. She thinks about her mother and her friends. They all believe that… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“We aren’t who we want to be. We are what society demands. We are what our parents choose. We don’t want to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The more God asks us to participate in His mysteries, the more disoriented we become, because He asks us constantly to follow… — 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
