You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it’s because it wasn’t a true love – the love that speaks the language of the world.

Paulo Coelho

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Paulo Coelho

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Paulo Coelho

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Paulo Coelho

Feelings do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don’t know, but it’s a world where there’s no time, so space, no frontiers.

Paulo Coelho

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

Paulo Coelho

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

Paulo Coelho

I don’t want to change anything, because I don’t know how to deal with change. I’m used to the way I am.

Paulo Coelho

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

Paulo Coelho

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world.

Paulo Coelho

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.

Paulo Coelho

Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.

Paulo Coelho

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

Paulo Coelho

If you start out by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work toward getting it.

Paulo Coelho

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

Paulo Coelho

There is only one way to learn. It’s through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

Paulo Coelho

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.

Paulo Coelho

The simple things are also the most extraordinary, but only the wise can see them.

Paulo Coelho

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.

Paulo Coelho

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

Paulo Coelho