3,188 Quotes by Paulo Coelho

For us each day is a dark night. None of us knows what might happen even the next minute and yet we still go forwards. Because we trust. Because we have faith.Or, who knows, perhaps because we just don't see the mystery contained in the next second. Not that it mattered. What mattered was knowing that she had understood that every moment in life is an act of Faith.

إذا شكوتُ قليلاً، فلأنني لست سوى قلب إنسان. وهكذا هي قلوب الناس، تخاف من تحقيق أحلامها الكبرى، لأنها تعتقد أنها لا تستحقّ بلوغها، أو أنها فعلاً لا تقدر على بلوغها. إننا نموت، نحن القلوب، خوفاً من حالات الحب الذي ولَّى إلى الأبد، ومن الأوقات التي كان يمكن أن تكون أوقاتاً رائعة، ومن تلك التي ليست كذلك، ومن الكنوز التي كان يمكن إكتشافها، ولكنها ظلّت، إلى الأبد، مدفونةً في الرمال، لأننا، متى حصل ذلك، نتألّم كثيراً من هول المعاناة التي تسبق النهاية.

Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.

That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny.

Give time time.

It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them

Be ready to pay the price of your dreams. Free cheese can only be found in a mousetrap.

Thy will be done, my Lord. Because you know the weakness in the heart of yourchildren, and you assign each of them only the burden they can bear. May youunderstand my love–because it is the only thing I have that is really mine, the only thing that I will be able to take with me into the next life. Please allow it to be courageous and pure; please make it capable of surviving the snares of the world.

It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their Personal Legend.