Life is not a long vacation, but a constant learning process.

Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho

Profession: Novelist
Nationality: Brazilian


Life is not a long vacation, but a constant learning process. Paulo Coelho

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And a mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

But a love with no name and no explanation, like a river that cannot explain why it follows a particular course but simply flows onward.

The 'insane' always believe in first impressions.

I feel like saying: Yes, I did something I shouldn't have done and yet I don't feel the tiniest bit guilty, just afraid of being found out.

Buses come and go. People get off and walk quickly, maybe because of the cold. Others board slowly, not wanting to get home, to work, or to school. But no one shows any anger or enthusiasm; they're not happy or sad, just poor souls mechanically carrying out the mission that the universe assigned on the day they were born.

One must learn that which is necessary, and not simply what one wants.

Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate, build exaggeratedly high defenses against the outside world, against new people, new places, different experiences, and leave their inner world stripped bare.

What remains will be the love that moves the heavens, the stars, people, flowers, insects, the love that obliges us all to walk across the ice despite the danger, that fills us with joy and with fear, and gives meaning to everything.

Although we cannot control God's time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the things we are waiting as quickly as possible.

Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by the same currents.

When you are going through difficult times, remember: you might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here.

It's doubt that drives a man onward.