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“Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Variant: Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.
Source: Brida

“Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by.”

Paulo Coelho book The Fifth Mountain

Source: The Fifth Mountain

“It feels like my soul is slowly leaving my body and heading off to an unknown place, some "safe" place where it doesn't have to put up with me and my night terrors.”

Paulo Coelho book Adultery

Source: Adultery

“Everything depends on which path you take.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

“I'm an old, superstitious Arab, and I believe in our proverbs. There's one that says, 'Everything that happens once can never happen again. But anything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

“I haven’t the slightest interest in being happy. I prefer to live life passionately, which is dangerous because you never know what might happen next.”

Paulo Coelho book Adultery

Source: Adultery

“What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars.”

Paulo Coelho

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

“It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.”

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

“Where your treasure is, there also will be your heart.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

“Give time time.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

“My smile is my way of saying: "You can destroy my body, but not my soul.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Our fate

“No one can go back, but everyone can go forward.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

“And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

“Live the life you always wanted to live. Avoid criticizing others and concentrate on fulfilling your dreams.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

“I love you because all the loves in the world are like different rivers flowing into the same lake where they meet and are transformed into a single love that becomes rain and blesses the earth.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Source: Aleph

“Success is falling down 7 times but getting up 8!”

Paulo Coelho

“Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.”

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

“because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.”

Paulo Coelho

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

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

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Variant: You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.
Source: The Alchemist

“Christ surrounded himself with beggars, prostitutes, tax-collectors and fishermen…. what he meant by this was that the divine spark is in every soul and is never extinguished…”

Paulo Coelho