I’ve been in love before, it’s like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day you want more. You’re not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you...

I’ve met a man and fallen in love with him. I allowed myself to fall in love for one simple reason: I’m not expecting anything to come of it. I know that, in three months’...

Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not here to tell you that defeat is a part of life: we all know...

God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change

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

Writing is easy: just stare at the screen of your computer until a tear drops on your keyboard.

There are two kinds of idiots – those who don’t take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.

También en su mundo distante, más distante que la propia luna, la música era capaz de penetrar y hacer milagros.

Insanity is the ability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that’s going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need...

Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I felt as if nature was in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

I believe in signs….what we need to learn is always there before us, we just have to look around us with respect & attention to discover where God is leading us and which step we...

The Warrior of the Light knows that it is impossible to live in a state of complete relaxation.He has learned from the archer that, in order to shoot his arrow any distance, he must hold...

She [the Virgin Mary] was normal. She had already had other children. The Bible tells us that Jesus had two brothers. Virginity, as it relates to Jesus, is based on a different thing: Mary initiated...

At life’s most significant moments, we are always alone

A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.

Le cerveau humain est fascinant : nous oublions une odeur avant de la sentir de nouveau, nous effaçons une voix de notre mémoire avant de l’entendre une nouvelle fois, et même les émotions qui paraissaient...

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.

When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for...

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying...

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.

Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.

There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every...

For those who are not frightened by the solitude, everything will have a different taste.In solitude, they will discover the love that might otherwise arrive unnoticed. In solitude, they will understand and respect the love...

Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl’s eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear.Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when...

The battles may last for a long time, perhaps even years. There are powerful forces on both sides, and the war is important to both armies. It’s not a battle of good against evil. It’s...

But why all these questions?Because I’m in love and I’m afraid of suffering.Don’t be afraid, the only way to avoid that suffering would be to refuse to love.

I receive your love and I give you mine. Not the love of a man for women, not the love of a father for a child, not the love of God for his creatures, but...

And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren’t the case, you wouldn’t have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.

It’s now what enters men’s mouths that’s evil. It’s what comes out of their mouths that is.

What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of...

I am tired of days that are all the same.

If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps…

Then I realize that words like “optimism” and “hope” which appear in all those self-help books that claim they’ll make us more confident and better to cope with life, are just that: words.

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.

Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary. Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention...

Break the glass, I thought to myself, because it is a symbolic gesture. Try to understand that within myself, things were breaking of much more importance than a glass, and I’m happy for that. Look...

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.

Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive...

My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It’s happened before, it will happen again, I’m sure. When someone leaves, it’s because someone else...

Many of us are returning from a long journey during which we were forced to search for things that were of no interest to us. Now we realize that they were false. But this return...

God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don’t abandon me in the middle ofthis adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.

Although I have the colors, only the Lord can mix them with such harmony.

Possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting” – The Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo –

If his decision is correct, he will win the battle, even if it lasts longer than expected. If his decision is wrong, he will be defeated and he will have to start all over again-...

…each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. …whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel...

Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.

When you are loved, you can do anything in creation.

A dream is always risky, for there is a price to pay.