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“Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“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
“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
“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“Your eyes show the strength of your soul”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“Don't give in to your fears . . . If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”
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
“You have passed through the two hardest tests on the spiritual road: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what you encounter.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“Nothing in this world happens by chance.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present.”
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
“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“Today, I understand something I didn't see before: every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“people never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“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
“Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Eleven Minutes
“Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.”
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
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy.”
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
“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Eleven Minutes
“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
“when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Eleven Minutes
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“She didn’t 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.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.”
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 are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.”
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
“It said that all people who are happy have God within them.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting”
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
“When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“She entered a kind of euphoric state, as if death had freed her from the fear of dying.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“And God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for only one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“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...”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
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