Quotes from Paulo Coelho

Most human beings still cannot trust love.

We are used to thinking that what we give is the same as what we receive, but people who love, expecting to be loved in return, are wasting their time. Love is an act of faith, not an exchange.

If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.

The grandeur of God reveals itself through simple things.

Love never comes just a little bit at a time, I thought, as I watched him, absorbed in contemplation of the Virgin. The previous day, the world made sense, even without love's presence. But now we needed each other in order to see the true brilliance of things.

We were born alone, and we will die alone. But while we are on this planet, we must accept and glorify our act of faith through other people.

The universe always favors those who fight for what they want.

The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment. Whoever you met will reappear, whoever you lost will return. Don't betray the grace that was bestowed on you. Understand what is going on inside you and you will understand what is going on inside everyone else. Don't imagine that I came to bring peace. I came with a sword.

When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.

What you still need to know is this: before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we've moved toward that dream. That's the point at which most people give up. It's the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.

The warrior knows that intuition is God's language and he continued listening to the wind and talking to the stars.

I want to continue being crazy, living my life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be.