Paulo Coelho

Sometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps.

A warrior balances solitude and dependence.

The warrior of the light has a destiny to fulfill.

He tries to show each person how much they are capable of achieving.

The moment that he begins to walk along it, the warrior of the light recognizes the path.

On some nights, he has nowhere to sleep, on others he suffers from insomnia. "That's just how it is," thinks the warrior. "I was the one who chose to walk this path."

I saw that everything really was written there before me, and that the doors had only been closed before because I hadn't realized that I was the one person in the world with the authority to open them.

We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating the miracle of being here in this world.

Perhaps love makes us grow old before our time and makes us young again when youth has passed.

Do not ask yourself if your love is big enough, because love is neither big nor small, it is simply love.

Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not.

In order to dominate the soul you must also learn to dominate the body. And in order to dominate the body you cannot fear pain.

When two people fall in love, past and future disappear.

If something happens once, it may never happen again. If it happens twice it most likely will keep happening.

Fear exists until the moment when the unavoidable happens, after that we must waste none of our energy on it.

I love you like a river that begins as a solitary trickle in the mountains and gradually grows and joins other rivers until, after a certain point, it can flow around any obstacle in order to get where it wants.

I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks. I love you like a river that gives water to the thirsty and takes people where they want to go.

The light of love flows out of my soul, but it can go nowhere because it's blocked by pain. I could inhale and exhale every morning for the rest of my life, but that wouldn't solve anything.

Love simply is. [...] Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.

When you dance you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent.