3,188 Quotes by Paulo Coelho

Aquel que se entrega totalmente, que se siente libre, ama al máximo. Y el que ama al máximo se siente libre.

That was what made traveling appeal to him - he always made new friends, and he didn't need to spend all of his time with them. When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, 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.

Per il resto della vita, serba nella memoria le cose belle che sono sorte nei momenti di difficoltà. Esse saranno una prova delle tue capacità e ti infonderanno fiducia dinanzi a qualsiasi ostacolo.

Anyone who is observant, who discovers the person they have always dreamed of, knows that sexual energy comes into play before sex even takes place. The greatest pleasure isn't sex, but the passion with which it is practiced. When the passion is intense, then sex joins in to complete the dance, but it is never the principal aim.

وفى الأجانب الذى يخشونان يتم توقيفهم بتهمة " التحرش الجنسى " . وهذا مفهوم تم استنباطه لكى تشعر نساء العالمقاطبة أنهن مكروهات

Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

People just can’t cope with happiness.

People give flowers as presents because flowers contain the true meaning of love. Anyone tries to possess a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower on a field, you will keep it forever, because the flower is part of the evening and the sunset and the smell of damp earth and the clouds on the horizon.

Everyone not already following their own path would begin to feel dissatisfied with themselves and be forced to make a choice: they would either have to accept an existence beset with disappointment and pain or else come to realise that everyone was born to be happy. Having made their choice, they would have no option but to change, and the great struggle, the Jihad, would begin.