Quotes by Paulo Coelho

When you realized that you would have to ask for help, you did not feel humiliated. And when you learned that someone needed help, you showed them all that you had learned without fearing that you might be revealing secrets or being used by others. To he who knocks, the door will open.He who asks will receive.He who consoles knows that he will be consoled.Even if none of these things happens when you are expecting it to, sooner or later you will see the fruits of the thing you shared with such generosity.

and dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people-preferably our parents, our spouses or our children-for our failure to realize our dreams.

I know you dont love me. But Im going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that are worth fighting for the end. You are worth it.

Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold?The tree says to the leaf:That’s the cycle of life. You may think you’re going to die, but you live on in me. It’s thanks to you that I’m alive, because I can breathe. It’s also thanks to you that I have felt loved, because I was able to give shade to the weary traveller. Your sap is in my sap; we are one thing.

The unavoidable has touched the life of every human being on the face of the earth. Some have rebounded, others have given up--but all of us have felt the wings of tragedy brushing against us.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

Where there is loyalty, weapons are of no use.

I am love, I am music, she thinks. Let’s dance.

I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.

A shepherd may like to travel, but he should never forget his sheep.

We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of live, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are all able to know everything, because its all written there.

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are all able to know everything, because its all written there.

... intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because its all written there.

all you had to do was to keep your insanity undercontrol

Stay insane, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention. Concentrate on this flower and allow the real I to reveal itself.

She didnt quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.

The rain is falling ever harder and all I can hear is the sound of the water. Im drenched but I cant move.

We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

In the small central square of Ljubljana, the statue of the poet stares fixedly at something. If you follow his gaze, you will see, on the other side of the square, the face of a woman carved into the stone of one of the houses. That was where Julia had lived. Even after death, Prešeren gaze for all eternity on his Impossible love.