3,188 Quotes by Paulo Coelho

My brained warned me, but my heart didn't want to take its advice.

The Warrior knows the value of persistence and of courage.

And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.

To become really good at anything,you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive

Surrendering completely to love, be it human or divine, means giving up everything, including our own well-being or our ability to make decisions. It means loving in the deepest sense of the word. The truth is that we don't want to be saved in the way God has chosen; we want to keep absolute control over our every step, to be fully conscious of our decisions, to be capable of choosing the object of our devotion.

Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.

He uses common sense to judge not the intentions of an action but its consequences.

Once I found this possibility to use Twitter and Facebook and my blog to connect to my readers, I'm going to use it, to connect to them and to share thoughts that I cannot use in the book.

The dangers is that every religion, including the Catholic one, says "I have the ultimate truth." Then you start to rely on the priest, the mullah, the rabbi, or whoever, to be responsible for your acts. In fact, you are the only one who is responsible.