Paulo Coelho

“And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.”

“Love is only a word, until we decide to let it possess us with all its force.Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning.Don't give up. Remember, it's always the last key on the key ring that opens the door.”

“They are so very cultivated, so very rich and so utterly charming. At the end of each day, they all ask themselves: 'Is it time I stopped?' And they all reply: 'If I did, there would be no meaning to my life.'As if they actually knew what the meaning of life was.”

“Anyone truly committed to life never stops walking.”

“Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.”

“A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks:“Aren’t you tired of waiting?”“Yes,” answers the rose, “but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.”

“Bio je uzbuđen i istodobno se kolebao: možda ga je djevojka već bila zaboravila. Onuda su prolazili mnogi pastiri i prodavali vunu.- Nije važno - reče mladić svojim ovcama. - I ja poznajem druge djevojke u drugim mjestima. No u dubini svoga srca znao je da je bilo važno. I da pastiri, kao mornari, kao i putujući trgovci, uvijek poznaju mjesto u kojem postoji netko tko ih može navesti da zaborave onu radost samotnog lutanja svijetom.”

“The falcon’s beak carries bits of me, myself,” the desert said. “For years, I care for his game, feeding it with the little water that I have, and then I show him where the game is. And, one day, as I enjoy the fact that his game thrives on my surface, the falcon dives out of the sky, and takes away what I’ve created.”

“Love is the falcon’s flight over your sands. Because for him, you are a green field, from which he always returns with game. He knows your rocks, your dunes, and your mountains, and you are generous to him.”

“Well there is only one piece of advice I can give you’ said the wisest of the wise men. ‘The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never forget the drops of oil on the spoon”

“Fear exists before and after, but not while the shots are being fired, because, at that moment, you see men at their very limit, capable of the most heroic of actions and the most inhumane.”

“All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning”

“The truth is that we don't want to be saved by in the way God has chosen; we want to keep absolute control over our every step, to be fully conscious of our decisions, to be capable of choosing the object of our devotion. It isn't like that with love - it arrives, moves in, and starts directing everything.”

“When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.”

“When I experienced humiliation and yet kept walking, I understood that I was free to choose my destiny.”

“Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.”

“I want to believe that it is wonderful to be free. Free again. Ready to find my one true love, who is waiting for me and who will never allow e to experience such humiliation again.”

“Be transparent in your actions, and secret in your plans”

“It was a mistake that set the world in motion. Never be afraid of making a mistake.”

“‎If I stay another day, I'll be here for another year. And if I stayed another year, I'll never leave.”

“We've lost our ability to live with the secrets of the world. And yet there they are before us.”

“Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?" the boy said"Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet. Even if you pretend not to haveheard what it tells you, it will always be there inside you, repeating to you what you'rethinking about life and about the world.”

“When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times.”

“Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.”

“The Warrior looks at the column of Fear, where he reads: “you are about to enter an unknown and dangerous world where all that you have learned up to now will be of no use whatsoever.”The Warrior of Light looks at the column of Desire, where he reads: “you are about to leave a known world where all the things you always wanted and all that you have fought so hard for are kept.”The Warrior smiles, because nothing can frighten him and nothing can hold him. With the confidence of those who know what they want, he opens the door.”

“Without such love , one's dreams would have no meaning”

“How can one set these opposite states in harmony? There is only one way: through giving oneself completely. How does one give oneself? By forgetting the traumas of the past, and by not forming expectations about the future - in other words, the orgasm. How can one do this? Very simply: by not being afraid to err.”

“a warrior of the light is always committed. He is the slave of his dream and free to act”

“the warrior knows that intuition is God's language and he continued listening to the wind and talking to the stars”

“God was there, and yet people believed they still had to go on looking, because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.”

“You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them.”

“I already know. And it has nothing to do with what you can see happening in my body; it’s what’s happening in my soul.”

“In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die? No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.”

“We were born alone and we will die alone. But, while we are on this planet, we must accept and glorify our act of faith through other people. Community is life: from it comes our capacity for survival. That is how it was when we lived in caves and so it is today.”

“Closing The CycleOne always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters - whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished.Did you lose your job? Has a loving relationship come to an end? Did you leave your parents' house? Gone to live abroad? Has a long-lasting friendship ended all of a sudden?You can spend a long time wondering why this has happened. You can tell yourself you won't take another step until you find out why certain things that were so important and so solid in your life have turned into dust, just like that. But such an attitude will be awfully stressing for everyone involved: your parents, your husband or wife, your friends, your children, your sister, everyone will be finishing chapters, turning over new leaves, getting on with life, and they will all feel bad seeing you at a standstill.None of us can be in the present and the past at the same time, not even when we try to understand the things that happen to us. What has passed will not return: we cannot for ever be children, late adolescents, sons that feel guilt or rancor towards our parents, lovers who day and night relive an affair with someone who has gone away and has not the least intention of coming back.Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. That is why it is so important (however painful it may be!) to destroy souvenirs, move, give lots of things away to orphanages, sell or donate the books you have at home. Everything in this visible world is a manifestation of the invisible world, of what is going on in our hearts - and getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.Let things go. Release them. Detach yourself from them. Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood. Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over and over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.Nothing is more dangerous than not accepting love relationships that are broken off, work that is promised but there is no starting date, decisions that are always put off waiting for the "ideal moment." Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come back. Remember that there was a time when you could live without that thing or that person - nothing is irreplaceable, a habit is not a need. This may sound so obvious, it may even be difficult, but it is very important.Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.”

“I will not talk to my own darkness anymore, I promised myself, closing the door on the Other. A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth.If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.”

“I closed my eyes and let the music flow through me, cleansing my soul of all fear and sin and reminding me that I am always better than I think and stronger than I believe.”

“The search for peace is a form of prayer that generates light and heat.Forget about yourself for awhile and understand that in that light lies wisdom and in that heat lies compassion.”

“Quiero volver a pensar que el mundo de la magia no es más que un truco bien hecho.Que la gente es supersticiosa.Que las cosas que la ciencia no puede explicar no tienen derecho a existir.”

“¡Un mundo sin gente estúpida sería un caos! –era la voz del que llevaba ropa de cuero con cadenas–. ¡En vez de desempleados como tenemos hoy, habría empleos de sobra y nadie para trabajar!–¡Basta! –Mi voz sonó autoritaria, decisiva–. ¡Que nadie diga nada más!Y para mi sorpresa, se hizo el silencio. Mi corazón hervía por dentro, pero seguí hablando con los policías como si fuese la persona más tranquila del mundo.–Si fueran peligrosos, no estarían provocando.El policía se volvió hacia el cajero: –Si nos necesita, estaremos cerca.Y antes de salir, comentó con el otro, de modo que su voz se oyese en toda la tienda:–Me encanta la gente estúpida: sin ella, a esta hora podríamos vernos obligados a enfrentarnos a unos atracadores.–Tienes razón –respondió el otro policía–. La gente estúpida nos distrae, y no es arriesgado.Con la formalidad habitual, se despidieron de mí.”

“I’ll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that’s going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don’t understand the language they speak there.”“We’ve all felt that”“And all of us, one way or another, are insane.”

“That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you.”

“Even If you're doing the same thing over & over, U need to discover something new, fantastic & unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before.”

“People don't learn when they're told, They should find out themselves”

“we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.”

“No se les pasa por la cabeza que el Poder sólo habla con el Poder. Que tienen que verse de vez en cuando, beber y comer juntos, asistir a grandes fiestas, alimentar la fantasía de que el mundo del lujo y el glamour es accesible a todos los que tienen el suficiente coraje para perseverar en una idea. Evitar guerras cuando no son rentables y estimular la agresividad entre países o compañías, cuando presienten que pueden reportarles más poder y más dinero. Fingir que son felices, aunque sean prisioneros de su propio éxito. Seguir luchando para aumentar su riqueza y su influencia, aunque ya sean enormes, porque la vanidad de la Superclase es competir consigo misma y ver quién está en lo más alto.”

“I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.”

“If there is suffering, then it's best to accept it, because it won't go away just because you pretend it's not there. If there is joy, then it's best to accept that too, even though you're afraid it might end one day.”

“That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation and transformation, love is preserved.”

“According to the laws of nature, one should destroy the other, but in love neither good nor evil, there is neither construction nor destruction, there is merely movement. And love changes the laws of nature.”