Paulo Coelho Quotes

"If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal."

"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."

"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

"Faith is a difficult conquest, which requires daily battles to maintain it."

"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."

"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience."

"Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear."

"The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight."

"You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it."

"Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us."

"Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own."

"A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires."

"Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time."

"No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it."

"When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision."

"The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility."

"Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant."

"Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere."

"Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration."

"The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter."

"We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity."

"Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson."

"A ship is safest when it is in port, but that is not what ships were built for."

"You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you."

"Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily."

"What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows."

"Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life."

"Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life."

"Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them."

"People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of."

"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."

"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."

"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering."