Paulo Coelho Quotes

“Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.”

“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say 'yes' to life?”

“Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.”

“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.”

“I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.”

“In the end, the most interesting people always leave.”

“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”

“No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”

“Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”

“Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.”

“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”

“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”