"Everyday God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy."
Read quote
3 likes
Quote collection
Paulo Coelho quotes (page 74 of 104)
2.1K quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"A good, true, intense love is not complete without madness."
Read quote
3 likes
"A bird in a cage is safe but God didn't create birds for that."
Read quote
3 likes
"Be careful! Never show your superiors that you are superior to them."
Read quote
3 likes
"Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work."
Read quote
3 likes
"Every moment of searching is a moment of encounter."
Read quote
3 likes
"I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm."
Read quote
3 likes
"We must get rid of the idea of fulfilling what people expect us to do, and start to do what we expect from our lives."
Read quote
3 likes
"Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life."
Read quote
3 likes
"Love gives us the strength to perform impossible tasks."
Read quote
3 likes
"Do not struggle against your thoughts; they are stronger than you are. If you want to be free of them, accept them."
Read quote
3 likes
"I'm afraid of taking steps that are not on the map, but by taking those steps despite my fears, I have a much more interesting life."
Read quote
3 likes
"I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks. I love you like a river that gives water to the thirsty and takes people where they want to go."
Read quote
3 likes
"Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference."
Read quote
3 likes
"Suffering comes from desire, not from pain."
Read quote
3 likes
"All men and women are connected by an energy which we call love, but which is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built. This energy cannot be manipulated, it leads us gently forward, it contains all we have to learn in this life. If we try to make it go in the direction we want, we end up desperate, frustrated, disillusioned, because that energy is free and wild."
Read quote
3 likes
"fate is strange.. almost no one i know married the first love of their lives. but for those who did are always telling me that they missed soemthing important, that they didn’t experience all that they might have.." - by the river piedra i sat down and wept"
Read quote
3 likes
"We are our own greatest surprise."
Read quote
3 likes
"Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect."
Read quote
3 likes
"Evil had to manifest itself and fulfill its role, so that ultimately Good could prevail. [...] Evil needs to manifest itself, for them to understand the value of Good."
Read quote
3 likes