Paulo Coelho

“The rain is falling ever harder, andall I can hear is the sound of the water.I’m drenched, but I can’t move. I don’twant to leave, because I don’t know where to go”

“Life is too short to waste time complainingDon't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear”

“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage”

“The Gods throw the dice,and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.They don't care if when you go,you leave behind a lover,a home, a career or a dream.The Gods don't care whether you have it all,whether your every desire can be met through hardwork and persistence.The Gods don't want to know about your plans and hopes.Somewhere they're throwing the dice and you get chosen.From then on,winning and losing is only a question of luck.”

“Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act”

“I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous.”

“One day, I am going to write a travel guide containing only maps and addresses of hotels, and with the rest of the pages blank. That way, people will have to make their own initery, to discover themselves restaurants, monuments and all the magnificent things that every city has, but which are never mentioned because ' the history we have been taught' does not include them in the list of things you must see.”

“I believe in signs....what we need to learn is always there before us, we just have to look around us with respect & attention to discover where God is leading us and which step we should take. When we are on the right path, we follow the signs, and if we occasionally stumble, the Divine comes to our aid, preventing us from making mistakes.”

“No one is alone in their troubles; there is always someone else thinking, rejoicing, or suffering in the same way, and that gives us the stregnth to confront the challenge before us.Does that include suffering for love?It includes everything. If there is suffering, then it is best to accept it, because it won't go away because you pretend it is not there. If there is joy, then it is best to accept that too, even though you are afraid it might end some day. Some people can only relate to life through sacrifice and renunciation. Some people only feel part of humanity when they think they are happy. I'm in love and I'm afraid of suffering.Dont be afraid. The only way to avoid that suffereing is to refuse love.”

“I came to realize that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their lovely, clean faces, and saw myself reflected in them. They, on the other hand, looked at me and saw the dirt on my face and, however intelligent and self confident they were, they ended up seeing themselves reflected in me and thinking that they were worse than they were. Please don't let that happen to you.”

“Free again, but it's just a feeling; freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit yourself to what is best for you.”

“Be creative. Remember that we only learnt how to fly when we stopped imitating birds.”

“I am always nearby, when someone wants to realize their destiny”

“If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world”

“To become really good at anything,you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive”

“The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment. Whoever you met will reappear, whoever you lost will return. Don’t betray the grace that was bestowed on you. Understand what is going on inside you and you will understand what is going on inside everyone else. Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace. I came with a sword.”

“You can’t measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. “Time” doesn’t pass. We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we’re always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better, about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didn’t act as we should have.”

“Dan saat kau menginginkan sesuatu, seluruh jagat raya bersatu padu untuk membantumu meraihnya.”

“The pain of yesterday is the strength of today”

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”

“Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read.”

“That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.”

“Despite her apparent freedom, her life consisted of endless hours spent waiting for a miracle, for true love, for an adventure with the same romantic ending she had seen in films and read about in books. A writer once said that it is not time that changes man, nor knowledge; the only thing that can change someone's mind is love. What nonsense!The person who wrote that clearly knew only one side of the coin.Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life, from one moment to the next. But there was the other side of the coin, the second thing that could make a human being take a totally different course from the one he or she had planned; and that was called despair. Yes, perhaps love really could transform someone, but despair did the job more quickly.”

“I love you', though, were three words she had often heard during her twenty-two years, and it seemed to her that they were now completely devoid of meaning, because they had never turned into anything serious or deep, never translated into a lasting relationship.”

“I've realised that sometimes you get no second chance and that it's best to accept the gifts the world offers you. Of course it's risky, but is the risk any greater than the chance of the bus that took forty-eight hours to bring me here having an accident? If I must be faithful to someone or something, then I have, first of all, to be faithful to myself. If I'm looking for true love, I first have to get the mediocre loves out of my system. The little experience of life I've had has taught me that no one owns anything, that everything is an illusion - and that applies to material as well as spiritual things. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever (as has happened often enough tome already) finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine; it's best to live as if today were the first (or last) day of my life.”

“Now, though, I am convinces that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone.That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”

“Infatuation was a good thing. It gave spice to life, and added to its enjoyment... But it was different from love. Love was worth everything, and couldn't be exchanged for anything.”

“The Superclass tries to promote its values. Ordinary people complainof divine injustice, they envy power, and it pains them to seeothers having fun. They don’t understand that no one is having fun,that everyone is worried and insecure, and that what the jewels, cars,and fat wallets conceal is a huge inferiority complex.”

“Are the latter aware of their limitations,and do they know that life is short and wonder what point there is ingoing on?”

“Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.”

“What you still need to know is this: before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we've moved toward that dream. That's the point at which most people give up.”

“People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.”

“Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.”

“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”

“To the warriors of light, there is no such thing as impossible love. They don’t allow themselves to be intimidated by silence, or by rejection. They know that – behind the icy mask people wear – there is a heart of fire. That is why the warriors risk more than others. They tirelessly seek love – even if this means hearing, many times over, the word ‘no’, returning home defeated, feeling rejected in body and soul. Warriors don’t allow themselves to be discouraged. Without love, live has no meaning.”

“the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.”

“Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love.”

“Life is an act of faith.”

“Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God.”

“Love is much like a dam: If you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force and current.For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.”

“Even though I complain sometimes it's because I'm the heart of a person. People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them. We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or of treasures that might have been found but were forever hidden in the sands. Because, when these things happen, we suffer terribly.”

“Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.”

“Love will never separate a man from his personal legend”

“Nothing happens by chance.”

“Love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.”

“Everything depends on which path you take.”

“What is outside is harder to change than what is inside.”

“Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect.”

“You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others.”

“Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits.”