Quotes from Paulo Coelho

If you don't fear, the Unknown will be KIND to you

The secret to life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

It (destiny) is what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny.

Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he'll never move.

Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.

Never save the best for later. You don't know what tomorrow holds.

We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination

After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

Life offers us thousands of opportunities for learning. Every man and every woman, in every day of our lives, always has a good opportunity to surrender to Love. Life is not a long vacation, but a constant learning process. And the most important lesson is learning to love.

The energy of hatred won't get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.