Paulo Coelho: Citáty v angličtine (page 9)

Aleph (2011)
Kontext: Seek out people who aren’t afraid of making mistakes and who, therefore, do make mistakes. Because of that, their work often isn’t recognized, but they are precisely the kind of people who change the world and, after many mistakes, do something that will transform their own community completely”.

Zdroj: The Zahir (2005), p. 272.
Kontext: That is how I would have acted before my accident, but now my personal history had become unimportant. It had stopped being history and was once more becoming a legend, a search, an adventure, a journey into and away from myself. I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.

Zdroj: The Alchemist (1988), p. 157.
Kontext: Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World. … It is we who nourish the Soul of the World, and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Kontext: The gods throw the dice, and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not. They don't care if when you go, you leave behind a lover, a home, a career, or a dream. The gods don't care whether you have it all, whether it seems that your every desire can be met through hard work and persistence. The gods don't want to know about your plans and your hopes. Somewhere they're throwing the dice — and you are chosen. From then on, winning or losing is only a question of luck.
The gods throw the dice, freeing love from its cage. And love can create or destroy — depending on the direction of the wind when it is set free.

Zdroj: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 164.
Kontext: Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or — such is the pleasure they experience — they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them.

Zdroj: The Alchemist (1988), p. 93

Zdroj: The Alchemist

Zdroj: Aleph (2011)

Zdroj: The Witch Of Portobello

Zdroj: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Zdroj: Eleven Minutes

Zdroj: Like the Flowing River

Zdroj: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Zdroj: Eleven Minutes

Zdroj: The Zahir

Zdroj: The Alchemist (1988), p. 131.

Zdroj: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept