Quotes By Paulo Coelho

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

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.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

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

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

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

I'm not a person that socializes very well.

It took me 40 years to write my first book.

I am a Catholic.

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.

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

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

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

I don't try to control my days.

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.

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

MySpace is an addiction.

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

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

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.

Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.

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

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.

Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.

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

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.