Paulo Coelho says: “Marie, let’s suppose that two firemen go into a forest to put out a small fire. Afterwards, when they emerge and go over to a stream, the face of one is all smeared with black, while the…
Paulo Coelho says: “Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to…
Paulo Coelho says: “Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.”
Paulo Coelho says: “Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other.”
Paulo Coelho says: “Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”
Paulo Coelho says: “It’s risky, falling in love. “I know that,” I answered. “I’ve been in love before. It’s like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day, you want more. You’re not addicted…
Paulo Coelho says: “It’s not what enters men’s mouth that is evil,” said the alchemist. It’s what comes out of their mouths that is.””
Paulo Coelho says: “It’s not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice,…
Paulo Coelho says: “In magic – and in life – there is only the present moment, the now. You can’t measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. ‘Time’ doesn’t pass. We human beings have enormous difficulty…
Paulo Coelho says: “In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men…