Paulo Coelho Quotes

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

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

"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience."

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

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

"I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed."

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

"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."

"I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature."

"The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality."

"Every blessing ignored becomes a curse."

"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."

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

"No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me."

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

"Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure."

"Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions."

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

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

"We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life."

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

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

"Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be."

"The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes."

"Beauty is the greatest seducer of man."

"Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony."

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

"All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society."