Paulo Coelho

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.

Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field.

We need to clear our minds of bad thoughts.

Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God.

The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants

Sometimes the Warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once.

Impossible is just an opinion.

And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.

But no one can lose sight of what he desires. Even if there are moments when he believes the world and the others are stronger. The secret is this: do not surrender.

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

Love creates bridges where it would seem they were impossible.

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

When we are unable to receive, we deny someone else the pleasure of giving.

A Warrior also knows that the fool who gives advice about someone else's garden is not tending his own plants.

The only reason I don't throw myself into your arms, kiss you and make love with you now is that I lack the courage and am afraid of loving you.

but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person with whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life. After a long time, she came to the conclusion that men brought only pain, frustration, suffering and a sense of time dragging.

Love transforms, Love heals. But sometimes it lays deadly traps and ends up destroying the person who decided to surrender himself completely.

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.

When faced by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been, it’s best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.

By changing the way you do routine things you allow a new man to grow inside you.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.