Quotes By Paulo Coelho

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

I hate to be smart.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

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

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.

My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

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

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I don't go to parties in general.

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

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.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

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

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.