Paulo Coelho

The srongest love is the love which is not afraid to show the weakness.

If it's still in your mind, it is worth taking the risk.

If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.

Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.

Simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them.

Not even your love could withhold you from fulfilling your own personal legend.

There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.

Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely.

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.

Defeat exists but not suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle, he is improving the skill with which he wields a sword. He will be able to fight more skilfullly next time.

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

Everything gets better in the end. If it's not better, it's not quite the end.

Before I die, I want to fight for life.

And a mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you're capable of far more than you imagined.

Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction.

Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.

It is said that each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life. So please embrace me now.

What is a personal calling? It is God's blessing, it is the path that God chose for you here on Earth. Whenever we do something that fills us with enthusiasm, we are following our legend. However, we don't all have the courage to confront our own dream.

There is no time to leave important words unsaid.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams.

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

If a man we don't know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing special, but nevertheless pays us the kind of attention we rarely receive, we're quite capable of going to bed with him that night, feeling relatively in love. That's what we women are like, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's the nature of the female to open herself to love easily.

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

I don't see any reason why I should look for someone who never took the trouble to love me.

You came so that you could learn about your dreams," said the old woman. "And dreams are the language of God. When he speaks in our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand.

When you're washing up, pray. Be thankful that there are plates to be washed; that means there was food, that you fed someone, that you're lavished care on one or more people, that you cooked and laid the table. ... There are women who say: "I'm not going to do the washing up let the men do it." Fine, let the men do it if they want to, but that has nothing to do with equality ... I'd be accused of working against the feminist cause. Nonsense! As if washing up or wearing a bra or having someone open or close a door could be humiliating to me as a woman. The fact is, I love it when a man opens the door for me. ... in my soul is written: "I'm being treated like a goddess. I'm a queen.

Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.