Paulo Coelho Quotes

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.

she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.

Time neither moves nor is stationary. Time changes.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.

The light of love flows out of my soul, but it can go nowhere because it’s blocked by pain. I could inhale and exhale every morning for the rest of my life, but that wouldn’t solve anything.

Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage

You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person? … I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn’t turn into … a Zahir.

Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments — but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.

If I were to persuade just one person to stop fighting for something they were convinced was worthwhile, I would end up persuading myself, and my whole life would be diminished.