Paulo Coelho Quotes

"If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur."

I'll tell everyone that the children are my reason for living, when in reality my life is their reason for living.

Love always triumphs over what we call death. That’s why there’s no need to grieve for our loved ones, because they continue to be loved and remain by our side.

Many people don't allow themselves to love...because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past.

Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem

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

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage

You will ask me questions and I will answer them. That is what the teachers of Ancient Greece did; their disciples would ask them questions about problems they had not considered before and the teachers would answer them... We will speak, therefore, about our daily lives, about the difficulties we have had to face. That is all the future will be interested in, because I do not believe very much will change in the next thousand years.’

Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal.

I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.

In my world, everything is possible and everything is relative.

This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we didn't yet know what love meant. A kiss that had been suspended in the air as we grew, that had traveled in the world in the souvenir of a medal, and that had remained hidden behind piles of books. A kiss that had been lost and now was found. In the moment of that kiss were years of searching, disillusionment and impossible dreams.

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.