Paulo Coelho

“she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.”

“Of all the ways we have found to hurt ourselves, the worse has been through love. We are always suffering because of someone who doesn't love us, or someone who has left us, or someone who won't leave us. If we are alone, it is because no one wants us...”

“behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.”

“You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.”

“All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.”

“Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.”

“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”

“Don't think about what you've left behind" The alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. "If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.”

“All love stories are the same.”

“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.”

“What's the world's greatest lie?... 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.”

“If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy. Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.”

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”

“This is what we call love. 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.”

“Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”

“Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: ‘the book is so much better than the film.”

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

“I was trying to come round to the idea that there might be an invisible reality capable of interfering in our lives, but the only reason I did so was because of a love I didn't want to believe I felt but which was continuing to grow in a subtle, devastating way. I was content in my universe and didn't want to change it at all, even though I was being propelled in that direction.”

“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.”

“You say they create their own reality," said Veronika, "but what is reality?”

“And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.”

“You have to take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, God gives us the sun--and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist--that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us. But that moment exists--a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles.”

“Everyday God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.”

“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”

“We pretend to be strong because we are weak.”

“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”

“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?”

“Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.”

“It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.”

“He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.”

“God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.”

“Sreca je nesto sto se deljenjem umnozava.”

“Ljubav je puna zamki. Kad hoce da se pokaze, otkrije samo svoju svetlost, a ne dopustanam da nazremo senke koje ta svetlost izaziva.”

“Trudi se da zivis, sjecanja su za starije ljude.”

“Ali ne smemo nikad smetnuti s uma da je duhovno iskustvo Ljubavi. A u Ljubavi ne postoje pravila. Mozemo pokusavati da se pridrzavamo prirucnika, da vladamo svojim srcem, da izgradimo strategiju ponasanja-ali sve su to kojestarije. Srce odlucuje, i to sto ono odluci, jedino i vazi.”

“Tajna srece sastoji se u tome da posmatras sva cuda ovog sveta, ali da nikada ni ne zaboravis na one dve kapi ulja u kasicici.”

“Ponekad treba pustiti da voda sama tece.”

“Voli se zato sto se voli. Ne postoji razlog zbog kojeg se voli.”

“But 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 of the current.”

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

“Quién ama ha vencido el mundo y no teme perder nada, el verdadero amor supone un acto de entrega total. ”

“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”

“Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.”

“Kita hanya bisa memahami keajaiban hidup secara penuh ketika membiarkan yang tak terduga untuk terjadi.”

“Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path. No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded. Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything. Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? I don't know.”