Quotes from Paulo Coelho

A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.

An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.

That 'simple desire' to share something meant that we could enter the world of language without words, where everything is always clear and there is no danger of being misinterpreted.

Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.

The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being.

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

Faith as tiny as a grain of sand allows us to move mountains.

Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith.

We always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life throws at us, but most of the time, those resources are locked up in the depths of our heart and we waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them. By the time we've found them, we already been defeated by adversity.