Paulo Coelho

"“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”"

"People are all crazy... but the craziest are the ones who never allow themselves to be crazy."

"A man spent hours watching a butterfly struggling to emerge from its cocoon. It managed to make a small hole, but its body was too large to get through it. After a long struggle, it appeared to be exhausted and remained absolutely still. The man decided to help the butterfly and, with a pair of scissors, he cut open the cocoon, thus releasing the butterfly. However, the butterfly’s body was very small and wrinkled and its wings were all crumpled. The man continued to watch, hoping that, at any moment, the butterfly would open its wings and fly away. Nothing happened; in fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its brief life dragging around its shrunken body and shrivelled wings, incapable of flight. What the man – out of kindness and his eagerness to help – had failed to understand was that the tight cocoon and the efforts that the butterfly had to make in order to squeeze out of that tiny hole were Nature’s way of training the butterfly and of strengthening its wings. Sometimes, a little extra effort is precisely what prepares us for the next obstacle to be faced. Anyone who refuses to make that effort, or gets the wrong sort of help, is left unprepared to fight the next battle and never manages to fly off to their destiny."

"Miracles only happen if you believe in miracles."

"I am love, I am music, she thinks. Let’s dance."

"Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world."

"and dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people-preferably our parents, our spouses or our children-for our failure to realize our dreams."

"Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions."

"If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man."

"Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity."

"One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now."

"Women, when they kill themselves, choose far more romantic methods - like slashing their wrists or taking an overdose of sleeping pills. Abandoned princesses and Hollywood actresses have provided numerous examples of this."

"Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on."

"of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues."

"To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only real obligation."

"Why is patience so important"Because it makes us pay attention."

"At life's most significant moments, we are always alone"

"Those who try to kill the body violate God's law. Those who try to kill the soul also violate God's law, even though their crime is less visible to others."By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept"

"You could have died later on, you could have died after peace had been declared. But, in any case, you were going to die."

"If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps..."