Paulo Coelho: Quotes about life

Source: The Alchemist

Variant: Each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life.
Source: Aleph

The alchemist uses this expression at p. 23, but it is one that does not originate with Coelho, though his work has popularized it.
Source: The Alchemist (1988)

Source: Aleph (2011)
Context: It’s always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility. You can try to stop time, but it’s a complete waste of energy.

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Solitude

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Like the Flowing River

Aleph (2011)

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Context: Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to reach out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if it means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.
The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.
And to save us.

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: The Fifth Mountain

Source: Adultery

Variant: It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
Source: The Alchemist

Source: Eleven Minutes