Quotes from Paulo Coelho

It wasn't necessary to know your own demons in order to find God.

Dont try to be useful. Try to be yourself; that is enough, and that makes all the difference.

A prayer without a deed is an arrow without a bow-string; A deed without a prayer is a bow-string without an arrow. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

It's a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your destiny. It prepares your spirit and your will,because there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's you mission on earth.

She still lives in a world in which people are faithful and vows of love are forever.

Sometimes an uncontrollable feeling of sadness grips us, he said. We recognize that the magic moment of the day has passed and that we've done nothing about it. Life begins to conceal its magic and its art. We have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments. We can stifle its cries, but we cannot silence its voice. The child we once were is still there. Blessed are the children, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

What remains will be the love that moves the heavens, the stars, people, flowers, insects, the love that obliges us all to walk across the ice despite the danger, that fills us with joy and with fear, and gives meaning to everything.

Knowledge is an illusion. Ecstasy is the true reality. Knowledge fills us with guilt. Ecstasy allows us to be one with he who is the Universe, before it existed, and after it has been destroyed.

No one day is like another,each tomorrow has its special miracle, its magic moment in which old universes are destroyed and new stars are created.

We are responsible for the Universe, because we are the Universe.

If she had looked more deeply into herself, she would have realized that what had thrilled her about the bird was his freedom, the energy of his wings in motion, not his physical body.

we all have one foot in a fairytale, and the other in the abyss