Quotes from Paulo Coelho

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

Although we cannot control God's time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the things we are waiting as quickly as possible.

Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.

Reprogram yourself every minute of each day with thoughts that make you grow. When you're feeling irritated or confused, try to laugh at yourself. Laugh out loud at this woman tormented by doubts and anxieties, convinced that her problems are the most important thing in the world.

But no one gets lost - the hand of the merciful God always lies on the heads of courageous men and women, those who dare to be different because they believe in their dreams.

Some of my friends are very poor, the only thing they have is money.

God is always close to us, whether we pray to him or not.

Do not do to another that which you would abhor being done to you; that is the law. All the rest is legal commentary.

If you understand life you need a reality check.

When he was a child, that man wanted to travel, too. But he decided first to buy his bakery and put some money aside. When he's an old man, he's going to spend a month in Africa. He never realized that people are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

The universe always helps us fight for our dreams, no matter how foolish they may be. Our dreams are our own, and only we can know the effort required to keep them alive.

Do no be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how the war ends.