Quotes by Paulo Coelho

Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses.

When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didnt know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.

Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment.

When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not enough. I know so many people who are brilliant speakers but are quite incapable of practising what they preach. Its one thing to describe a situation & quite another to experience it. I realised a long time ago that a warrior in search of his dream must take his inspiration from what he actually does & not from what he imagines himself doing.

People had been trying to understand the universe through love ever since the beginning of time.

Don’t close your eyes to the Universe and then complain: ‘It’s dark.

When you’re in love, you’re capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love is the key to understanding of all the the mysteries.

The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they dont always return.... Those who dont return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become part of everything … They become the Soul of the World.

Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet.

that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of whats happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. Thats the worlds greatest lie.

Those who dont understand their personal legends will fail to comprehend its teachings.

Beauty remains,pain ends up passing

...one dies of thirst just when the palm tress have appeared on the horizon.

Stay close 2 those who sing, tell stories, and enjoy life, and those eyes sparkle wiz happiness is contagious and will always manage 2 find a solution, whereas logic can find only an explanation 4 the mistake made. me!! ;)

Success does not come from having ones work recognized by others. It is the fruit of a seed that you lovingly planted.

Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.

She wasn’t afraid of difficulties; what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular path.Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live and she was always thinking that, in future, she might regret the choices she made now.‘I’m afraid of committing myself,’ she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none.Even in that most important area of her life, love, she had failed to commit herself. After her first romantic dissappointment, she had never again given herself entirely. She feared pain, loss and separation. These things were inevitable on the path to love, and the only way of avoiding them was by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

Everyone not already following their own path would begin to feel dissatisfied with themselves and be forced to make a choice: they would either have to accept an existence beset with disappointment and pain or else come to realise that everyone was born to be happy. Having made their choice, they would have no option but to change, and the great struggle, the Jihad, would begin.

For millions of years, man spoke only to what he could see. Suddenly, in just one decade, seeing and speaking have been separated. We think were used to it, yet we dont realize the immense impact its had on our reflexes. Our bodies are simply not used to it. Frankly, the result is that, when we talk on the telephone, we enter a state that is similar to certain magical trances; we can discover other things about ourselves.