Paulo Coelho

“People only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they'll get it.”

“Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.”

“Al atravesar un periodo difícil, recuerda: aunque hayas perdido grandes batallas, sobreviviste y estás ahí.”

“when we love we strive to become better than we are”

“Life is the train and not the station.”

“They know what the “perfumes” are going to say because they always say the same thing, but they pretend to believe them anyway. (a)“I could change your life.” (b)“A lot of women would like to be in your shoes.” (c)“You’re young now, but what will become of you in a few years’ time? You need to think about making a longer-term investment.” (d)“I’m married, but my wife . . .” (This opening line can have various endings: “. . . is ill,” “. . . has threatened to commit suicide if I leave her,” etc.) (e)“You’re a princess and deserve to be treated like one. I didn’t know it until now, but I’ve been waiting for you. I don’t believe in coincidences and I really think we ought to give this relationship a chance.”

“The moments that precede sleep are very similar to death. We are filled by a torpor and it is impossible to know when the 'I' takes on a different form. Our dreams are our second life. I am incapable of going through the doors that lead us to that invisible world without a shiver.”

“Be blessed. And just as you are transforming your own life, may you transform the lives of those around you. When they ask, do not forget to give. When they knock at your door, be sure to open it. When they lose something and come to you, do whatever you can to help them find what they have lost. First, though, ask; knock at the door and find what is missing in your life. A hunter always knows what to expect - eat or be eaten.”

“The most sophisticated things in the world are precisely those within the reach of everyone.”

“Only a fool makes threats, and only another fool feels threatened.”

“The warrior of the light has the qualities of a rock.”

“That’s what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”

“For her, everyday was the same, and when each day is the same as next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day the sun rises.”

“Don't think about what you’ll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it.”

“When something evolves, everything around that thing evolves as well.”

“He never realized that people are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dreamed of.”

“It doesn't matter," he said to his sheep. "I know other girls in other places." But in his heart he knew that it did matter. And he knew that shepherds, like seamen and like traveling salesmen, always found a town where there was someone who could make them forget the joys of carefree wandering.”

“Mówią, że kiedy rodzi się człowiek z nieba spada dusza i rozpada się na dwie części. Jedna trafia do kobiety, druga do mężczyzny... Sens życia polega na dnalezieniu tej drugiej połowy.Połowy swojej duszy.Połowy siebie.”

“Je voulais comprendre pourquoi j'avais repoussè si longtemps mon plus grand rêves.je voulais surtout me prouver que j'ètais capable de garder cette flamme allumée.”

“He also said that this was not just a human gift, that everything on the face of the earth had a soul, whether mineral, vegetable, or animal - or even just a simple thought.”

“I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.”

“When we feel weak, all we have to do is wait a little while. The spring returns and the winter snows melt and fill us with new energy.”

“You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. ” Chantal”

“It isn't the light you want to recover, it’s the certainty that there is only darkness”

“As he was about to climb yet another dune, his heart whispered, "Be aware of the place where you are brought to tears. That's where I am, and thats where your treasure is.”

“Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed.”

“i was tired of playing the child and acting the way many of my friends did - the ones who are afraid that love is impossible without even knowing what love is.”

“Love can take you to heaven or hell, but it will always take you somewhere.”

“This miracle is in the small things of daily life; we must live in the understanding that at every moment there is a way out of each problem, the way of finding that which is missing, the right clue to the decision which must be taken in order to change our entire future.”

“Life would be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now.”

“Never hate jealous people.They are jealous because they think you are better than them.”

“the music speaks for itself, there’s no need to say anything”

“When I asked you if you wanted to, I was not testing your courage. I was testing your wisdom.”

“Certainly. But take this into consideration: of every ten problems we have, nine are created by our own selves - through guilt, self-punishment, self-pity. However, from time to time a great obstacle appears in our path, which was put there by God, and which is there for a reason. The reason is: to give us the opportunity to change everything, to move forwards.”

“True love is that which manages to avoid unnecessary suffering.”

“People wind up killing what they love most.”

“WE ONLY ACCEPT A TRUTH AFTER WE HAVE FIRST WHOLEHEARTEDLY REJECTED IT”

“How's the water?" asked her father."It's lovely," she replided."Right, from now on, whenever you want to find out about something, plunge straight in.”

“The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other”

“Beauty is the greatest seducer of men.”

“Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.”

“He knew that any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things. One could open a book to any page, or look at a person's hand; one could turn a card, or watch the flight of birds... whatever the thing observed, one could find a connection with his experience of the moment. Actually, it wasn't that those things, in themselves, revaled anything at all; it was just that people, looking at what was ocurring around them, could find a means of penetration to the Soul of the World.”

“His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.”

“There is a force that wants you to realize your destiny; it whets your appetite with a taste of success !”

“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 courage to complain, that's their problem.”

“Once the soul has left the body it had to walk across a bridge as narrow as a knife edge, with paradise on the right and, on the left, a series of circles that lead down into the darkness inside the earth. Before crossing the bridge, each person had to place all his virtues in his right hand and all his sins in his left, and the imbalance between the two meant that the person always fell towards the side to which his actions on Earth had inclined him.”

“I began to make some money, but I could never bring myself to leave someone else in charge of the shop; the crystals are delicate things.”

“There is no such thing as death. Life existed before we were born and will continue to exist after we leave this world. Same with love, it existed before and will go on forever.”

“Love can only be found through he act of loving”

“Whenever she sat still, just looking at something, she got the feeling that she was wasting precious time when she should be doing things to meet people. She could be spending her time so much better, because there was still so much to learn.”