3,188 Quotes by Paulo Coelho

Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have courage to complain, that's their problem.

She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.

She didn't struggle and so she didn't grow

Well there is only one piece of advice I can give you,' said the wisest of wise men. 'The secret of happiness is to see al the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.

We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear

I'm certain you're depressed because you're never truly present; your eyes shift from one side to the other, there's no light behind them, just weariness. On the night of the book launch, I saw you were making a superhuman effort to speak with the others there- everyone must seem dull, inferior, all the same.

She was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on.

...paradise is expensive, the gate is narrow. Whoever visits discovers that life is beautiful, that the sun can in fact be divided into individual rays, it's no longer that boring, round ball you can't even look at. The next day, you go back to work on a train full of people with empty looks, emptier than the looks of the people here. Everybody thinking about getting home, making dinner, turning on the television, escaping reality- man, reality is this white powder, not the television!

And when I think about it, I guess it is true that people always arrive at the right moment at the place where someone awaits them