Quotes By Paulo Coelho

I never say I am a guru.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

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

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

I don't go to parties in general.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

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

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

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

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

It took me 40 years to write my first book.

I'm not a person that socializes very well.

I am a Catholic.

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

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

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.