36 Quotes By Paulo Coelho


Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.
Paulo Coelho on age

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.
Paulo Coelho on art

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.
Paulo Coelho on beauty

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.
Paulo Coelho on communication

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.
Paulo Coelho on death

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo Coelho on experience

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

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.
Paulo Coelho on fear

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

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

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.
Paulo Coelho on great

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

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.
Paulo Coelho on happiness

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

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
Paulo Coelho on life

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Paulo Coelho on love

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

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.
Paulo Coelho on love

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
Paulo Coelho on love

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.
Paulo Coelho on love