Paulo Coelho

my unwillingness to see what was wonderful because tomorrow it might disappear and then I would suffer

When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person’s life. And then they want the person to change.

If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it’s because people
fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises

“You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it’s because it wasn’t true love . . . the love that speaks the Language of the World.”

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.”

The boy remembered an old proverb from his country. It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.

all you had to do was to keep your insanity under control.

knowing that the moon was listening and would feel proud, and that this would provoke the jealousy of the stars

only I could tear out my heart and hurl it into the current, then my pain and longing would be over