Quotes from Paulo Coelho

God...never again allow me to be satisfied with only my own company. [May I] never feel afraid of needing someone, or of suffering. For there is no suffering worse than the dark grey room where pain cannot reach...

Switzerland is one of the few countries in the world where a man's word is still his bond.

You worked so hard to achieve. It blinds us to everything else, to the moments we've joyfully experienced, to happy times and the bonds created during those occasions. How is it that hatred?

Keep the bicycle moving, because if you stop pedalling, you will fall off.

We may think at times that the only thing life offers us tomorrow, is to repeat everything we did today. But if we pay close attention, we will see that no two days are alike.

The pure force of life are in communication with each other, independently of us, and then we cannot hide who we are.

He analyses every strategy and asks: what would I do if I had to fight myself? He thus discover his weak points.

When night comes and no one is watching, I feel afraid of everything: life, death, love or the lack of it; the fact that all novelties quickly become habits; the feeling that I'm wasting the best years of my life in a pattern that will be repeated over and over until I die; and sheer panic at facing the unknown, however exciting and adventurous that might be.

When we feel well after carrying out a certain task. Consequently, everything which causes us to lose our enthusiasm and self respect, is harmful; even if it means power, money or success. I have seen so many people suffocated by success, making mistakes which ended up destroying years of work, yielding to heavy drinking, becoming aggressive, tough, bitter. These people are distant from themselves, and distant from others.

You're crying? I'm a woman of the desert, she said, averting her face. But above all, I'm a woman.

Words are life set down on paper.

No one could make a choice without feeling afraid. That's was the law of life..and no one could escape.