Paulo Coelho Quotes

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

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

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

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

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.

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

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

If you start by promising what you don`t even have yet, you`ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

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

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

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

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.

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

I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we`re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won`t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when the person looks back-she will hear her heart

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it`s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you`re fighting for.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It`s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it`s another to think that yours is the only path.