Paulo Coelho
No one should let themselves get used to anything.Collection: Used
May my tears run just as far, that my love might never know that one day I cried for him.Collection: Running
But now I knew that true love was above all that and that it would be better to die than to fail to love.Collection: Would Be
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.Collection: Life
Men always have their reasons. But the fact is that they always wind up leaving.Collection: Men
Most human beings still cannot trust love.Collection: Trust Love
Love perseveres. It's men who change.Collection: Men
I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I am still crying. To believe even when I am discredited.Collection: Believe
Time heals almost everything. But when you are healed, you are too old to enjoyCollection: Healed You
I came to realize that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their lovely, clean faces, and saw myself reflected in them. They, on the other hand, looked at me and saw the dirt on my face and, however intelligent and self confident they were, they ended up seeing themselves reflected in me and thinking that they were worse than they were. Please don't let that happen to you.Collection: Intelligent
I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous.Collection: Marvelous
The rain is falling ever harder, and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I’m drenched, but I can’t move. I don’t want to leave, because I don’t know where to goCollection: Moving
I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.Collection: Book
When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.Collection: Trying
As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.Collection: Life
The story of one person is the story of all of humanity.Collection: Humanity
We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or of moments that could have been found but were forever hidden in the sands.Collection: Heart
Why do they make things so complicated?" "So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand.," he said. "Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value." "It's those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work.Collection: Responsibility
I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.Collection: Men
We can never found the soul, just as we can never wound God, but we become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched, even when we have everything we need in order to be happy.Collection: Memories
Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change directionCollection: Life
Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.Collection: Love
So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.Collection: Giving
Although I have the colors, only the Lord can mix them with such harmony.Collection: Color
Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.Collection: Happiness
God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.Collection: Names
The roller-coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it’s taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it’s mountaineering; it’s wanting to get to the very top of yourself and feeling angry and dissatisfied when you don’t manage itCollection: Fall
I think that perhaps we always fall in love the very first instant we see the man of our dreams, even though, at the time, reason may be telling us otherwise, and we may fight against that instinct, hoping against hope that we won't win, until there comes a point when we allow ourselves to be vanquished by our feelings.Collection: Dream
If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.Collection: World
It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.Collection: Pain
When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left!Collection: Falling In Love
I am going to sit here in the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. And if you go away, I will follow you - until you tell me to go away. Then I'll leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Heart
"The warrior who trusts his path doesn't need to prove the other is wrong.Collection: Warrior
I'm an adventurer, looking for treasureCollection: Alchemist
What was broken will never be the same again.Collection: Broken
I learned the most important lesson of my life: that the extraordinary is not the birthright of a chosen and privileged few, but of all people, even the humblest. That is my one certainty: we are all the manifestation of the divinity of God.Collection: Inspirational
True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart.Collection: Love
Philosophy can't build bridges, but can encourage people to cross them.Collection: Philosophy
Surrendering completely to love, be it human or divine, means giving up everything, including our own well-being or our ability to make decisions. It means loving in the deepest sense of the word. The truth is that we don't want to be saved 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.Collection: Love
Behind a cold face there is always an insecure heart.Collection: Inspirational
Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them.Collection: Inspirational
I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.Collection: Couple
When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.Collection: Inspirational
Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near.Collection: Travel
Don’t live every day as if it were your last. Live every day as if it were your first.Collection: Firsts
After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn’t bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it’s a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it’s sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we’re doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.Collection: Real