Paulo Coelho

My brained warned me, but my heart didn't want to take its advice.

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.

Everyone knows how to love,because we are all born with that gift.Some people have a natural talent for it but the majority of us have to re-learn,to remember how to love,and everyone,without exception,needs o burn on the bonfire of past emotions,to relieve certain joys and griefs,certain ups and downs,until they can see the connecting thread that exists behind each new encounter;because there is a connecting thread.

Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old.

To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation.

If you have a work instead of a job, every day is holiday.

I couldn’t have found God in the seminary, he thought, as he looked at the sunrise.

The roller coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances, falling over and getting up again.

A love that asks for nothing and gives nothing in return; it is simply there. I will never be yours and you will never be mine; nevertheless, I can honestly say: I love you.

When fate is very generous with us, there is always a well into which all our dreams can tumble.

Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act.

Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.

He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence.

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

With love, there are no rules. Some may try to control their emotions and develop strategies for their behavior; others may turn to reading books of advice from "experts" on relationships - but this is all folly. The heart decides, and what it decides is all that really matters.

Time that never ends, that never passes, that remains in the present, where all of life's secrets lie.

Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him.

It isn't what you did in the past that will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

Outside, beyond what is right and wrong, there exists a vast field. We will find each other there.

Life is like cooking: before choosing what you love, try everything...

Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.

Intelligent people discuss ideas. Fools discuss how people should behave.

I've never been as happy as I am now, because I followed the signs, I was patient, and I know that this is going to change everything.

We are all pilgrims in search of the unknown.

Always remember the proverb: "This too shall pass." Your negative feelings won't last forever, there's a light at the end of every tunnel. It might not happen today or tomorrow, but you'll feel better eventually.

Don't live every day as if it were your last. Live every day as if it were your first.

Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.

I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I am still crying. To believe even when I am discredited.

It is not the life that matters, but the journey.