Paulo Coelho
I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.Collection: Money
When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it.Collection: Business
It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.Collection: Death
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.Collection: Fear
Music for me, it demands full concentration.Collection: Music
I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.Collection: Peace
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.Collection: Religion
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.Collection: Patience
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.Collection: Death
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.Collection: Faith
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.Collection: Experience
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.Collection: Love
Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.Collection: Money
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.Collection: Money
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.Collection: Life
In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.Collection: Respect
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.Collection: Chance
Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.Collection: Attitude
Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.Collection: Beauty
I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.Collection: Happiness
I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.Collection: Experience
However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.Collection: Change
With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.Collection: Respect
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.Collection: Life
I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you're really tired. It's my relaxing time.Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Love
Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.Collection: Happiness
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.Collection: Failure
Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.Collection: Communication
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.Collection: Love
Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife.Collection: Experience
When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.Collection: Positive
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.Collection: Good
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.Collection: Love
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.Collection: Time
You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.Collection: Learning
The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.Collection: Good
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.
Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.
No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.
Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
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.
We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
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.
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.