“My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer.”
Source: The Alchemist
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“The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.”
Source: Eleven Minutes
Source: Eleven Minutes
“Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.”
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
“Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.”
Source: Eleven Minutes
“Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.”
Source: Eleven Minutes
Source: The Winner Stands Alone
Variant: 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.
Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 37.
“Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.”
Source: The Alchemist
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: The Fifth Mountain
“If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.”
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Uselessness
“Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny”
Source: The Alchemist
“Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.”
Variant: Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.
Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 9.
Context: When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.
“No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.”
Source: The Witch Of Portobello
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom
“Don't explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you”
Source: Economic Warfare Quotes
“You say they create their own reality," said Veronika, "but what is reality?”
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
Paulo Coelho
book
Brida
Source: Brida
“All love stories are the same.”
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over”
Paulo Coelho
book
The Zahir
Source: The Zahir
Source: Eleven Minutes
“If you believe in victory, then victory will believe in you.”
Source: The Winner Stands Alone
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Context: You have to take risks … We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, God gives us the sun — and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist — that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us. But that moment exists — a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles.
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
Source: Eleven Minutes
