Quotes by Paulo Coelho

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

The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is the same thing with human beings. When male knowledge joins with female transformation, then the great magical union is created, and its name is wisdom. Wisdom means both to know and to transform.

What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace

Fortunate are those who take the first steps.

Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life

Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didnt care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous.

But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that good enough is very different from best.

I ask myself: Are Defeats necessary ?Well,necessary or not, they happen.When we first begin fighting for our dream, weve no experience and make many mistakes.The Secret of life, though,is to fall seven times and to get up eight times !

Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.

Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.

Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.

Im not a body with a soul, Im a soul that has a visible part called the body.

Nothing in this world happens by chance.

Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.

But he was able to understand one thing: making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that wil carry him into places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision. - The Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo -

Try to be good, youll be judged. Try to be yourself, youll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the nice good people as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.

… That at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what´s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That´s the world´s greatest lie. - The Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo -

Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees

I am going to sit here in the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. And if you go away, I will follow you--until you tell me to go away. Then Ill leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life..