Paulo Coelho

We are entering a new world in which we can choose to follow our own steps, not those that society forces us to take.

What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.

She [the Virgin Mary] was normal. She had already had other children. The Bible tells us that Jesus had two brothers. Virginity, as it relates to Jesus, is based on a different thing: Mary initiated a new generation of grace. A new era began. She is the cosmic bride, Earth, which opens to the heavens and allows itself to be fertilized.

Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly.

Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. "Once upon a time" is how all the best children's stories begin, and "prostitute" is a word for adults. How can I start a book with this apparent contradiction? But since, at every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss, let's keep that beginning.

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

As I don't know about tomorrow, I never save the best for later.

Even if you follow other people's advice and model successful people and their blueprints, you will still fail if you don't have confidence in yourself. Everything - absolutely everything - starts with you.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

Where are they written?" "In the world around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life, and you will discover where, every moment of the day, He hides His words and His will. Seek to do as He asks: this alone is the reason you are in the world." "If I discover it, I'll write it on clay tablets." "Do so. But write them, above all, in your heart; there they can neither burned nor destroyed, and you will take them wherever you go.

Investing a lot of time and money in external beauty and caring little about internal beauty.

Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too.

We all know fear. But passion makes us fearless.

Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.

Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses. She could almost touch the destructive energy leaking out of her body. She allowed the feeling to emerge, regardless of whether it was good or bad; she was sick of self-control, of masks, of appropriate behavior. Veronika wanted to spend her remaining two or three days of life behaving as inappropriately as she could.

God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.

His [Elijah] heart was beginning to give signs of alarm; he was enjoying being at this woman's side. Love could be a more frightening experience than standing before Ahab's soldier with an arrow aimed at his heart; if the arrow had struck him, he would be dead -and the rest was up to God. But if love struck him, he alone would have to take responsibility for the consequences.

It is necessary to run risks, to follow certain paths and to abandon others. No one can make a choice without feeling fear.

If you must say yes, say it with an open heart. If you must say no, say it without fear.

You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don't feel guilty and accept the blessings.