Quote

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

Paulo Coelho

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Paulo Coelho
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 24
Actor
Blogger
Composer
Lyricist
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Researcher
Science Fiction Writer
Songwriter
Writer
Rio
Paulo Coelho de Souza
Certain
Control
Alchemist
Life
Greatest
Alchemy
World
Lying
Controlled
Point
Happenings
Happiness
Happening
Lives
Fate
Inspirational
Lose
Become
Loses

More quotes by Paulo Coelho

Image
In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change.
Paulo Coelho
Image
God has a prepared path for us to follow. We just have to read the omens he has left for us.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.
Paulo Coelho
Image
We are what we believe ourselves to be
Paulo Coelho
Image
Too often, we decide to follow a path that is not really our own, one that others have set for us. We forget that...in both cases we will pass through both difficult and happy moments. But when we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter make sense.
Paulo Coelho
Image
You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.
Paulo Coelho
Image
I never lose when I love. I only lose when I'm afraid to
Paulo Coelho
Image
That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny.
Paulo Coelho
Image
The boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and saw that it was part of the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles.
Paulo Coelho
Image
There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.
Paulo Coelho
Image
There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.
Paulo Coelho
Image
To dream is not enough, you have to fulfill your dream.
Paulo Coelho
Image
But if you've ever felt love, you'll know how painful it is to suffer for love.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)
Paulo Coelho
Image
Join with those who sing, tell stories, talk pleasure in life, and have joy in their eyes, because joy is contagious, and can prevent others from becoming paralysed by depression, loneliness and difficulties.
Paulo Coelho
Image
In our obsessive wish to arrive, we often forget the most important thing, which is the journey.
Paulo Coelho
Image
In order to dominate the soul you must also learn to dominate the body. And in order to dominate the body you cannot fear pain.
Paulo Coelho
Image
When the Warrior takes on a commitment, he keeps his word.
Paulo Coelho
Image
At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.
Paulo Coelho
Image
From that day on, it was the desert that would be important. She would look to it everyday, and would try to guess which star the boy was following in search of his treasure. She would have to send her kisses on the wind hoping that the wind would touch the boy's face, and would tell him that she was alive.
Paulo Coelho