Paulo Coelho

“When we can do nothing else, we can still love, without expecting any reward or change or gratitude.”

“Love creates bridges where it would seem they were impossible.”

“The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others.”

“Acepta sus pasiones y las disfruta intensamente.”

“La felicidad es algo que se multiplica cuando se divide.”

“Oscar Wilde said: 'Each man kills the thing he loves.' And it's true. The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far. I have known a lot of people who, when their personal calling was within their grasp, went on to commit a series of stupid mistakes and never reached their goal - when it was only a step away. This is the most dangerous of the obstacles because it has a kind of saintly aura about it. Renouncing joy and conquest. But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.”

“If you say it was the "last" time, it might well turn out to be the last. What you meant was "the most recent time I was here".”

“It is not what enters men's mouths that's evil. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.”

“It is your blessing, the path God has chosen for you here on Earth. Whenever a man does that which gives him enthusiasm, he is following his Legend. However, not everyone has the courage to face up to his own dreams.”

“El primer deseo es importante porque está escondido, prohibido, no permitido. No sabes si estás ante tu otra mitad perdida, ella tampoco lo sabe, pero algo te atrae, y es preciso creer que es verdad.”

“Experience has taught me that people only give values to things if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they will get it”

“God gives us the sun and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Everyday, we try to pretend that we havent perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist- that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow.”

“We have been taught that we must follow certain formulas and rules if we want to find god. We do not recognize that god is wherever we allow him/her to enter.”

“God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.”

“If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence”

“I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure”

“Learn to recognize omens, and follow them”

“but music only exists because the pauses exist, and sentences only exist because the blank spaces exist.”

“I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.”

“After accepting love as a stimulus, a man faces the third obstacle: the fear of the defeats he will encounter along the way. A man who fights for his dream suffers far more when something doesn’t go well, because he cannot use the famous excuse: “oh, well in fact that wasn’t exactly what I wanted anyway… ” He does want it, and knows he is putting everything into it, and also that the Personal Legend is just as difficult as any other path - the difference being that your heart is present on this journey. So, a warrior of the light must be prepared to be patient at difficult times, and know that the Universe is conspiring in his favor, even if he does not understand how.”

“I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy. Before coming here, I was thinking I don't deserve it, that i wouldn't be able to meet your expectations, and that you had probably chosen the wrong candidate. At the same time, my heart was telling me that i was being rewarded because i hadn't given up and had fought to the end”

“a man is alsoa woman; he wants to find someone, to give meaning to his life.”

“it was her company he desired. He wanted to put his arms around her andto sit in silence, staring into the fire, drinking wine, smoking the occasional cigarette; thatwould be enough. Life was made up of simple things; he was weary of all the yearshe had spent searching for something, though quite what he didn't know.”

“Let's go back to the train station,' she said. 'Or,rather, let's come back to this room, to the day when we sat here together for the first timeand you recognised that I existed and gave me a gift. That was your first attempt to enter mysoul, and you weren't sure whether or not you were welcome. But, as you say in your story,human beings wereonce divided and now seek the embrace that will reunite them. That is our instinct. But it isalso our reason for puttingup with all the difficulties we meet in that search.I want you to look at me, but I want you to take carethat I don't notice. Initial desire is important because it is hidden, forbidden, not permitted.You don't know whether you are looking at your lost half or not; she doesn't know either,but something is drawing you together, and you must believe that it is true you are eachother's "other half”

“When desire is still in this pure state, the man and the woman fall in love with life, they liveeach moment reverently, consciously, always ready to celebrate the next blessing.When people feel like this, they are not in a hurry, theydo not precipitate events with unthinking actions. They know that the inevitable will happen,that what is real alwaysfinds a way of revealing itself. When the moment comes, theydo not hesitate, they do not miss an opportunity, they do not let slip a single magic moment,because they respect the importance of each second.”

“It was goingto be impossible to escape her own trap, she would lose this man without ever really havinghim.”

“What's so special about me?" There isn't anything specialabout you, at least, nothing I can put my finger on. And yet and here's the mystery of life - Ican't think of anything else.”

“She was terrified. She was beginning to realise that after long months of selfcontrol,the pressure, theearthquake, the volcano of her soul was showing signs that it was about to erupt, and themoment that this happened, she would have no way of controlling her feelings.”

“He should know thatthe great aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love. Love isnot to be found in someoneelse, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person.The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.”

“There is a name for that pebble: passion. It can be usedto describe the beauty of an earth-shaking meeting between two people, but it isn't just that.It's there in the excitement of the unexpected, in the desire to do something with realfervour, in the certainty that one is going to realise a dream. Passion sends us signals thatguide us through our lives, and it's up to me to interpret those signs.I would like to believe that I'm in love. Withsomeone I don't know and who didn't figure in my plans atall. All these months of self-control, of denying love, have had exactly the opposite result: Ihave let myself be swept away by the first person to treat me a little differently.”

“She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't beenher fault, but the faultof that insecure little boy, who had given up after the first attempt.”

“I'm just like that woman really. Or rather, that's what Iused to be like: someone pretending to know everything,hidden away in my own silence”

“At that moment, Maria learned that certain things are lost forever.”

“Follow your dreams, transform your life.”

“Setiap orang berhak meragukan tugas yang diberikan kepadanya, dan mengabaikannya sesekali, namun dia tidak boleh melupakannya. Sebab siapapun yang tidak meragukan diri sendiri berarti tidak layak—sebab dengan keyakinan penuh akan kemampuannya, berarti dia telah berbuat dosa kesombongan. Diberkatilah mereka yang mengalami saat-saat ragu.”

“It's the thought of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. All things happen for a reason.”

“what you brought from your past, is of no use in your present. When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories.”

“Suffering when cannot be avoided, is to help your way to glory....all rivers flow into the same sea.”

“Dünya ilişkilerin üzerine kuruludur, başka bir şeyin değil. Onlar da bir gün senden bir iyilik isteyeceklerdir; sen de saygı gösterecek ve bir zamanlar sana yardımcı olan bu insanlara yardım edeceksin ve zaman içinde tüm dünyaya ağlarını yayacak, ihtiyacın olan herkesi tanıyor olacaksın ve çevrende yarattığın etki sürekli büyüyecek.”

“I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.”

“I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something important to be said.”

“When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.”

“It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil... It's what comes out of their mouths that is.”

“Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.”

“If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.”

“We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination”

“Making a decision is only the beginning of things”

“Water: it has no taste, no smell, no color, and yet it is the most important thing in the world.”

“We never lose our loved ones. The accompany us; they don't disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.”

“If your rely only on experience, you'll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems. I know a lot of people who feel they have an identity only when they're talking about their problems. That way, they exist because their problems are linked to what they judge to be their history.”