Paulo Coelho
...in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other... People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.Collection: Inspirational
Faith is difficult to conquer and requires daily battles if it is to be maintained.Collection: Life
I do believe that everything we see, everything that is in front of us is just the visible part of reality. We have the invisible part of reality, like emotions for example, like feelings. This is our perception of the world, but God is-as William Blake said-in a grain of sand and in a flower. This energy is everywhere.Collection: Believe
A great pleasure in life is to do what they say you can't.Collection: Life Is
The warrior knows that he is free to choose his desires, and he makes these decisions with courage, detachment, and - sometimes - with just a touch of madness.Collection: Warrior
Success does not come from having one's work recognized by others. It is the fruit of the seed that you lovingly planted.Collection: Doe
Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soulCollection: Book
The ship is safest when it is in port, but that’s not what ships were built for.Collection: Life
Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.Collection: Life
Don't live every day as if it were your last. Live every day as if it were your first.Collection: Inspirational
life is the moment we're living right now.Collection: Motivational
Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him.Collection: Doe
To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.Collection: Practice
You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.Collection: Mountain
Sometimes, we need to be strangers to ourselves. Then the hidden light in our soul will illuminate what we need to see.Collection: Light
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.Collection: Loneliness
Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.Collection: Inspirational
In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience.Collection: Love
Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in publicCollection: Art
She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.Collection: Life
Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.Collection: Love
When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.Collection: Life
Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control themCollection: Horse
The extraordinary lies in the path of ordinary people.Collection: Lying
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. If I stayed like that, I would miss out on everything good that these few days with him might offer.Collection: Children
You can't change the wind. But you can adjust the sails to reach your destinationCollection: Wind
You can just look at a mountain and get a connection with God, you don't have to understand the mountain to feel that.Collection: God
Where there is loyalty, weapons are of no use.Collection: Loyalty
Don't allow anyone to steal your joy.Collection: Joy
The soul loves all things beautiful and deep.Collection: Beautiful
Our sexual energy, when not properly mastered, is transformed into anger.Collection: Energy
That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny.Collection: Destiny
The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.Collection: Dream
The parents always insisted on telling their child that their secret friends didn't exist - perhaps because they had forgotten that they too had spoken to their angel at one time. Or, who knows, perhaps they thought they lived in a world where there was no longer any place for angels.Collection: Children
Everything is worship if your mind is focused on the present moment.Collection: Mind
... I simply accept that technology is stronger and more powerful than me: it works when it wants to, and when it doesn't its best to go for a walk, and just wait until the cables and telephone links are in a better mood and the computer decides to work again. I am not, I have discovered, my computers master: it has a life of its own.Collection: Powerful
In Eleven Minutes, I started with the question of why sexuality is considered one of the major issues in life.Collection: Issues
It's important though to distinguish between religion and spirituality.Collection: Important
When we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter make sense.Collection: Dream
When you drink water, don't forget the fountain.Collection: Water
You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one.Collection: Miracle
Not knowing whether to wait or to forget is the worst kind of suffering.Collection: Knowing
To one who knocks, the door will open.Collection: Doors
Never stop dreaming and follow the omens.Collection: Dream
... keep practicing. After a great deal of practice, we no longer think about all the necessary movements we must make; they become part of our existence. Before reaching that stage, however, you must practice and repeat. And if that's not enough, you must practice and repeat some more.Collection: Thinking
We always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life throws at us, but most of the time,those resources are locked up in the depths of our heart and we waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them.By the time we've found them,we already been defeated by adversity.Collection: Heart
By the River Piedra I sat down and wept. There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river -- leaves, insects, the feathers of birds -- is transformed into the rocks that make the riverbed. If only I could tear out my heart and hurl it into the current, then my pain and longing would be over, and I could finally forget.Collection: Pain
We could go back to the time when we first met: a man in emotional tatters over someone who had left him, and a woman madly in love with her neighbor. I could repeat what I said to you once: 'I'm going to fight to the bitter end.' Well, I fought and I lost, and now I'll just have to lick my wounds and leave.Collection: Fighting
Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.Collection: Love Is