3,188 Quotes by Paulo Coelho

Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once.

Memory protects us from danger, allows us to live as social beings, to find food, grow and pass everything we've learned on to the next generation.

Be fully awake if you want to dream.

We think it's all nonsense, because when we wake up, we're immediately back in a world organized by memory, which is our way of understanding the present. What we saw in our dreams is rapidly forgotten.

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

It is precisely the possibility of realizing a dream that makes life interesting.

We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting

It’s always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your success and failures are entirely your own responsibility.