3,188 Quotes by Paulo Coelho

There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.

We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation.

I ask myself: Are Defeats necessary ?Well,necessary or not, they happen.When we first begin fighting for our dream, we've no experience and make many mistakes.The Secret of life, though,is to fall seven times and to get up eight times !

Tell me about your life since I last saw you." | "There are no great mysteries to tell. My path is always ther, and I do everything I can to follow it in a dignified way." | "What is your path?" | "The path of someone seeking love." | "And love's path is really complicated." | "Because on that path we can go either to heaven or to hell?

He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence.

Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.

I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.

Once you get into the desert, there's no going back. And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.

I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy.-Lukas Jessen-Petersen