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Paulo Coelho Quotes
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.”
Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
Source: Eleven Minutes
“If I must fall, may it be from a high place.”
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“There is only one way to learn … It's through action.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 131.
“God always offers us a second chance in life.”
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Paulo Coelho book Brida
Variant: When you’re in love, you’re capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love is the key to understanding of all the the mysteries.
Source: Brida
“It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist
“I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.”
Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
Source: Eleven Minutes
“Maktub,” she said. “If I am really part of your dream, you’ll come back one day.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Fatima, p. 101<!-- also p. 116 -->; has also been quoted in slight variant: "If I am really part of your dream, you will come back one day."
Variant: If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.
Source: The Alchemist (1988)
“Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.”
Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
“Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.”
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“… and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.”
Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
Source: Eleven Minutes
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Context: Love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Variant: There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.”
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
“If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.”
Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym
Variant: Fear again. If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
“Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho book The Winner Stands Alone
Source: The Winner Stands Alone
“Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.”
Source: The Witch Of Portobello
“Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist
“The wise are wise only because they love.”
Paulo Coelho book The Zahir
As quoted in Elders on Love: Dialogues on the Consciousness, Cultivation, and Expression of Love (1999) by Kenneth R. Lakritz and Thomas M. Knoblauch.
Unsourced variant: The wise are wise only because they love. The fools are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Variant: The wise are wise only because they love.
Source: The Zahir
“That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.”
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
