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“It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Eleven Minutes
“You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love...”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Eleven Minutes
“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Zahir
“It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”
Paulo Coelho
,
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Eleven Minutes
“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.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“stay insane, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“It's only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“Your eyes show the strength of your soul”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“You must always know what it is that you want”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“You’re someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you, and even men can turn themselves into the wind.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“It's this: 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.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“people never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“I've been in love before. It's like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day, you want more.”
Paulo Coelho
,
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“the danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“Don't give in to your fears . . . If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“everything in life has its price.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“There is only one way to learn . . . It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“my eyes are not yet accustomed to the desert . . . I can see things that eyes habituated to the desert might not see.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it—which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? I don't know.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Eleven Minutes
“To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Aleph
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