Paulo Coelho

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.

I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.

You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?

Life moves very fast. It rushes from Heaven to Hell in a matter of seconds.

The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.

My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer.

Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it

I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.

Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions.

We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.