3,188 Quotes by Paulo Coelho

It's a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your destiny. It prepares your spirit and your will, because there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.

A warrior of the Light is never in a hurry.Time works in his favor; he learns to master his impatience and avoids acting without thinking.

We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.

I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.

We can't choose our lives, but we can decide what to do with the joys or griefs we're given.

Something was very wrong with civilisation, and it wasn't the destruction of the Amazon rainforest or the ozone layer, the death of the panda, cigarettes, carcinogenic foodstuffs or prison conditions, as the newspapers would have it.It was precisely the thing she was working with: sex.

solitude is not absence of love, but its complement

At life's most significant moments, we are always alone

It's better to lose some of the battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you're fighting for.