Paulo Coelho

Bekannte Zitate von Paulo Coelho

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.

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

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.

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

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

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

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.

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

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

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

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.

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

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

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

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

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

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.