Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The best way to live a miserable life is to pay attention to what other people are saying about you. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
A Warrior knows that his best teachers are the people whom he shares the battlefield. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The celebrity syndrome. When people forget who they are and start to believe what other people say about them. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive… — 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
When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Even if you follow other people's advice and model successful people and their blueprints, you will still fail if you don't have… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We must at all costs avoid saying no because people prefer those who say yes, and this allows us to survive in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“...each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I kissed him hard. The few people in the bar must have been thinking that all they were seeing was just a… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You don't seem mad at all,' she said. But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist; that today is the same as… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Going after a dream has a price. It may mean abandoning our habits, it may make us go through hardships, or it… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You still haven't managed to heal the scars left by some of the injustices committed against you in your life and it… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horros in other people's lives as if they… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In a few more days I'd anticipated telling Veronika that our injections had cured her heart condition. But in light of her… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
To the warriors of light, there is no such thing as impossible love. They don’t allow themselves to be intimidated by silence,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not here… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There are two gods. The god our teachers teach us about, and the God who teaches us. The god about whom people… — 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
