Paulo Coelho

I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.

The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him. Be attentive, but don't be paranoiac.

because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

Tears are words that need to be written.

Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.

In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.

We are all pilgrims in search of the unknown.

I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.

Everything will happen as was written by the Lord," replied the prophet. "There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason." "What reason?" "That is a question we cannot answer before, or even during the trials. Only when we have overcome them do we understand why they were there.

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 They are the engineers of the superseded

So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.

So long as you do no harm to another, change your opinion once in a while. Contradict yourself without being embarrassed. This is your right. It doesn't matter what others think -because that's what they will think, in any case.

God has a prepared path for us to follow. We just have to read the omens he has left for us.

Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.

Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horros in other people's lives as if they were genuinely concerned to help them, but the truth was that they took pleasure in the suffering of others, because that made them believe they were happy and that life had been generous with them

Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)

Worshiping someone means...placing that person outside of our world. We are not worshiping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with Creation.

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.

That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.

Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy ourselves, the slaves of fame?

Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself.