3,188 Quotes by Paulo Coelho

I'm like everyone else, I see the world in terms of what i would like to see happen, not what actually does.

People live to save themselves. You will understand that at the moment of your own death.

Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. Something that exerted the same force whenever two eyes met, as had theirs here at the well... It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels though time.

When someone sees the same people everyday, they wind up becoming a part of that person’s life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

He was sure that it made no difference to her on which day he appeared: for her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

I'm an old, superstitious Arab, and I believe in our proverbs. There's one that says, 'Everything that happens once can never happen again. But anything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

Only those who find life, find treasures.

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

Setiap orang di dunia ini, apa pun pekerjaannya, memainkan peran penting dalam sejarah dunia. Dan biasanya orang itu sendiri tidak menyadarinya.