Paulo Coelho

“Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.”

“Why do so many people chose to spend their whole life destroying paths they didn't even want to follow, instead of following the one path that would lead them somewhere.”

“By taking risks. By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in your search for Love, as long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.”

“Time heals almost everything. But when you are healed, you are too old to enjoy”

“Everyone believes the world's greatest lie..." says the mysterious old man."What is the world's greatest lie?" the little boy asks.The old man replies, "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.”

“A time to be born, and a time to die;A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;A time to kill, and a time to heal;A time to break down, and a time to build up;A time to weep, and a time to laugh;A time to mourn, and a time to dance;a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;A time to get, and a time to lose;A time to lose; A time to keep, and a time to cast away;A time to rend, and a time to sew;A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;A time to love, and a time to hate;A time of war, and a time of peace”

“If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.”

“La felicidad es una bendición, pero generalmente es también una conquista.”

“And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.”

“I will be able to love above all discontentment.To give even when I am stripped of everything.To dry tears even when I am still crying.To believe even when I am discredited.”

“It's now what enters men's mouths that's evil. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.”

“When you make a decision, you are really diving in a strong current that will bring you to places you never dreamed of when you first made that decision”

“That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. 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. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.”

“But my heart is agitated, It has its dreams, it gets emotional, and it's become passionate over a woman of the desert. It asks things of me, and it keeps me from sleeping many nights, when I'm thinking about her”

“Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena”

“People become fascinated with pictures and words, and wind up forgetting the Language of the World”

“The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being”

“What is I? It's what you are, not what others make of you.”

“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.”

“Does a soldier go to war in order to kill the enemy? no, he goes in order to die for his country.Does a wife want to show her husband how happy she is? no, she wants him to see how she suffers in order to make him happyDoes the husband go to work thinking he will find personal fulfillment there? no, he is giving his sweat and tears for the good of the familyAnd so it goes on: sons give up their dreams to please their parents, parents give up their lives in order to please their children; pain and suffering are used to justify the one thing that should bring only LOVE..”

“That was the glory of man - to nurture and maintain knowledge.”

“What we see is not always what exists.”

“PAIN was no longer a cause of suffering, but a source of pleasure, Because they were redeeming humanity from its sins. Pain becomes joy, the meaning of life, pleasure..”

“Em không thể nói với Mùa Xuân rằng: ‘Hãy đến đây bây giờ và ở lại càng lâu càng tốt.’ Em chỉ có thể nói rằng: ‘Hãy đến và ban phúc cho ta bằng niềm hi vọng của người, và hãy ở lại lâu tới mức nào mà người có thể.”

“Một lần để được sinh ra, và một lần để chết đi; Một lần để trồng trọt, và một lần để bứt hái những cái đã được gieo trồng;Một lần để giết chết, và một lần để chữa lành; Một lần để phá hủy, và một lần để xây lên;Một lần để khóc than, và một lần để cười;Một lần để thương tiếc, và một lần để khiêu vũ;Một lần để quăng đi những viên đá, và một lần để thu nhặt những viên đá lại cùng nhau; Một lần để ân ái, và một lần để nén nhịn sự ái ân;Một lần để có, mà một lần để mất; Một lần để giữ gìn, và một lần để vứt bỏ;Một lần để xé nát, và một lần để khâu lạnh; Một lần để giữ im lặng, và một lần để nói;Một lần để yêu, và một lần để căm ghét;Một lần của chiến tranh, và một lần của hòa bình;”

“Love perseveres. It's men who change.”

“Most human beings still cannot trust love.”

“Many parents make mistakes with their children, thinking they know what's best for them.”

“Men always have their reasons. But the fact is that they always wind up leaving.”

“Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.”

“But now I knew that true love was above all that and that it would be better to die than to fail to love.”

“Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always tales us somewhere.”

“Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation.”

“I observed the woman I had been up until then: weak but trying to give the impression of strength. Fearful of everything but telling herself it wasn't fear - it was the wisdom of someone who knew what reality was.”

“It's risky, falling in love.”

“My brained warned me, but my heart didn't want to take its advice.”

“When the walls come down, 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.”

“Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.”

“There are moments when you have to take risk, to do crazy things.”

“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.”

“May my tears run just as far, that my love might never know that one day I cried for him.”

“We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules.”

“With love, there are no rules. Some may try to control their emotions and develop strategies for their behavior; others may turn to reading books of advice from "experts" on relationships - but this is all folly. The heart decides, and what it decides is all that really matters.”

“I want and need to like myself again; I have to convince myself that I’m capable of taking my own decision.”

“People tend to help others just so that they can feel are better than they really are.”

“Women, when they kill themselves, choose far more romantic methods like slashing their wrist or taking an overdose of sleeping pills.”

“The great craziness of men and women is precisely that: love.”

“Empty your mind, stop thinking about anything, simply be.”

“No one should let themselves get used to anything.”

“When we’re with other people and they say nothing, the situation becomes irritating.”