Quotes By Paulo Coelho

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

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

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

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

I hate to be smart.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

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

I never say I am a guru.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

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.

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

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

I don't go to parties in general.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

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

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.