Quotes from Paulo Coelho

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

People destroy what they love.

If he waits for the ideal moment, he will never set off; he requires a touch of madness to take the next step. The warrior uses that touch of madness. For - in both love and war - it is impossible to foresee everything.

The future would end up finding out the truth about the past.

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.

Things do not always happen the way I would have wanted, and it's best that I get used to that.

I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous.

From the moment we are born, people tell us that the world is like this and like that, this way, that way. It is natural that - for a certain period of time - we end up believing what we are told. But we must soon push these ideas aside and discover our own way of living reality.

Only someone who can say 'I love you' is capable of saying 'I forgive you.

Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.

As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.

Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed.