Quotes from Paulo Coelho

Whenever a new situation presented itself, you had to remain cool and distant

I haven't the slightest interest in being happy. I prefer to live life passionately, which is dangerous because you never know what might happen next.

Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous.

i am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. that is the true experience of freedom:having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.

Not everyone can see his dreams come true in the same way.

Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory. But human beings are like that,' she thought. 'We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

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

Today don't beg, don't ask, just thank God in silence for all the blessings in your life.

These seeds will always be tulips, even if at the moment you cannot tell them apart from other flowers. They will never turn into roses or sunflowers, no matter how much they might desire to. And if they try to deny their own existence, they will live life bitter and die.

Freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that smile is dimmed with tears.

They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born.