My smile is my way of saying: "You can destroy my body, but not my soul. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The best way to know and destroy an enemy is to pretend to become his friend. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
By changing the way you do routine things you allow a new man to grow inside you. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Give yourself freedom to try out new things Don't be so set in your ways that you can't grow. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Love accepts its companion unconditionally and allow each to grow in his or her own way. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Real love changes and grows with time and discovers new ways of expressing itself. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The best way to weaken one's enemy was to get him to believe that you were on his side. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
This miracle is in the small things of daily life; we must live in the understanding that at every moment there is… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
One way or another, I have wound up destroying what I've loved. I've seen my dreams fall apart just when I seemed… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Of all the ways we have found to hurt ourselves, the worse has been through love. We are always suffering because of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We must play music quietly, talk quietly, weep in private, because I am the all-powerful Zahir, who lays down the rules and… — 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
I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I… — 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
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
When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World… when you love… — 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
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
But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person… — 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
There's a lot of me in it. But the character is more egotistical. I'm also egotistical, but not the way the character… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Before a dream is realized the soul of the world tests everything that was learned along the way. — 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
