Paulo Coelho

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Extraordinary • Perception • Simplicity

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

Courage • Faith • Learning

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

Children • Desire • Happiness

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

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

Change • Freedom • Loss

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

Experience • History • Life

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.

Discovery • Inspiration • Love

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Achievements • Fear • Improvement

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Improvement • Motivational • Perseverance

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Beauty • Human

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

Life • Patience • Timing

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Life • Motivational • Risk

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

Growth • Motivational • Overcoming

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

Pain • Suffering • Uncertainty

Tears are words that need to be written.

Tears are words that need to be written.

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

Courage • Faith • Hope

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Awareness • Criticism • Responsibility

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

Confusion • Destruction • Love

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

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

Discovery • Gratitude • Loss

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality.

Faith • Growth • Happiness