3,188 Quotes by Paulo Coelho

The young all have the same dream: to save the world. Some quickly forget this dream, convinced that there are more important things to do, like having a family, earning money, traveling, and learning a foreign language. Others, though, decide that it really is possible to make a difference in society and to shape the world we will hand on to future generations.

The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. Forget about the future, and live each day according the the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.

I haven't got time to read books.''What do you mean you haven't got time? What are you doing?''Lots of things: studying French, writing a diary, and ...''And what?'She was about to say 'waiting for the phone to ring', but she thought it best to say nothing.'My dear, you're still very young, you've got your whole life ahead of you. Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and just read.''I've read loads of books.

Tell me about your life since I last saw you." | "There are no great mysteries to tell. My path is always there, 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?

His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.

But the sheep had taught him something even more important: that there was a universal language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve things at the shop. It was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.

For her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only real obligation.

A única maneira de salvarmos os nossos sonhos, é sermos generosos connosco.