Top 2109 Quotes & Sayings by Paulo Coelho - Page 31

we who determine how quickly time passes.

She was doing it because she had nothing to lose, because her life was one of constant, day to day frustration.

This was freedom; to feel what the heart desired with no thought to the opinion of the rest... She was free, for love liberates.

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.

I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.

I savour the idea of my new state: single and a millionaire.

The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love.

And the person who loves wholeheartedly feels free.

Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read.

It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.

Only the following items should be considered to be grave faults: not respecting another's rights; allowing oneself to be paralyzed by fear; feeling guilty; believing that one does not deserve the good or ill that happens in one's life; being a coward. We will love our enemies, but not make alliances with them. They were placed in our path in order to test our sword, and we should, out of respect for them, struggle against them. We will choose our enemies.

Everything depends on which path you take.

It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.

He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.

If you can dream, you can do.

Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love.

That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.

The Good Fight is the one that we fight in the name of our dreams.

The boy told himself that, on the way toward realizing his own destiny, he had learned all he needed to know, and had experienced everything he might have dreamed of.

I am always amazed that so many people are concerned with wanting to be what they are not;What is the point of making yourself look ridiculous? You don't always have to pretend to be strong,there is no need to prove all the time that everything is going well,you shouldn't be concerned about what other people are thinking. Cry if you need to,it's good to cry out all your tears,because only then you will be able to smile again.

God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change

music isn't just something that comforts or distracts us, it goes beyond that - it's an ideology. you can judge people by the kind of music they listen to.

She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination she was making love with men of all skin colors--white, black, yellow--with homosexuals and beggars. She was anyone's, and anyone could do anything to her. She had one, two, three orgasms, one after another. She imagined everything she had never imagined before, and she gave herself to all that was most base and most pure.

They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to have a degree. And thus the world was deprived of some excellent gardeners, bakers, antique dealers, sculptors, and writers.

We live in a vale of tears...We can have all the dreams we like, but life is hard, implacable, sad.

Although I have been through all that I have, I do not regret the many hardships I met, because it was they who brought me to the place I wished to reach.

From that day on, it was the desert that would be important. She would look to it everyday, and would try to guess which star the boy was following in search of his treasure. She would have to send her kisses on the wind hoping that the wind would touch the boy's face, and would tell him that she was alive.

There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.

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

You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.

Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it.

now that she realized she had been waiting for him—she did not like that.

When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.

Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees

Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.

This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your generosity to the pilgrims.' 'But this payment goes well beyond my generosity,' the monk responded. 'Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.

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.

What we see is not always what exists.

We don't always choose the best solution but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and decent in order to do honor not to the walls or the doors or the windows but to the empty space inside, the space where we worship and venerate what is dearest and most important to us.

You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.

With love, there are no rules. The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.

Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory. But human beings are like that,' she thought. 'We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

She regretted having taken his hand, she wanted to get away from there as soon as possible, to hide her shame, never again to see that man who had witnessed all that was most sordid in her, and who nevertheless continued to treat her with such tenderness. But again she remembered Mari's words: She didn't need to explain her life to anyone, not even to the young man standing before her.

I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.

People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.

No life is complete without a touch of madness.

Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.

No one should let themselves get used to anything.

Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits.

Love transforms and love cures;but,sometimes,love builds deadly traps and can end up destroying a person who had resolved to give him or herself completely.What is this complex feeling which,deep down,is the only reason we continue to live,struggle and improve?

And she already has her treasure: it’s you.

May my tears run just as far, that my love might never know that one day I cried for him.

Truth resides where there is faith.

If we are alone, we become more alone. Life is strange

I’ve been through all this before,’ he says to his heart. “ ‘Yes, you have been through all this before,’ replies his heart. ‘But you have never been beyond it.

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.

Only children believe they're capable of everything.

We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.

True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do

What hurts us is what heals us.