We could go back to the time when we first met: a man in emotional tatters over someone who had left him, and a woman madly in love with her neighbor. I could repeat what I said to you once: 'I'm going to fight to the bitter end.' Well, I fought and I lost, and now I'll just have to lick my wounds and leave.

Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho

Profession: Novelist
Nationality: Brazilian

Some suggestions for you :

Fortunate are those who take the first steps.

I have won important things for myself, but I'm going to destroy them, because I tell myself they have lost their meaning. I know that is not true. I know they are important, and that if I destroy them, I'll be destroying myself, as well.

A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means...

I began to make some money, but I could never bring myself to leave someone else in charge of the shop; the crystals are delicate things.

Don't think about what you'll tell people afterwards. The time is here and now. Make the most of it.

And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us.

All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step.

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.

Whenever a new situation presented itself, you had to remain cool and distant.

If God gave you a second chance, would you do anything differently? I.

I want to know if, when Good and Evil are pitted against each other, there is a fraction of a second when Good might prevail.

He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Every thing has a soul, every soul has emotions.