Quotes from Paulo Coelho

You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.

If you don't want to believe me, you don't have to do anything about it.

God was there, and yet people believed they still had to go on looking, because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless." We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed.

Writing is easy: just stare at the screen of your computer until a tear drops on your keyboard.

The true lover is not the one who says: You need to be by my side and I need to take care of you, because we are loyal to each other, but the one who realizes that loyalty must go hand in hand with freedom. And without fear of betrayal, he accepts and respects the other person's dream, trusting in the greater power of Love.

It's thrilling to fight for a love that's entirely unrequited. It might not be much fun. It might leave profound and lasting scars. But it's interesting—especially for a person who, for years now, has been afraid of taking risks and who has begun to be terrified by the possibility that things might change without her being able to control them. I'm not going to repress my feelings any longer. This challenge is my salvation.

Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is?love simply is. That is the testament of Athena or Sherine or Hagia Sofia?love is. No definitions. Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry.

He understood that, contrary to what most people think, total power means total slavery.

Only a fool makes threats, and only another fool feels threatened.

Here we believe that God has already done His part; now it is up to us to continue the process.