Paulo Coelho Quotes And Sayings

Life Was Always A Matter Of Waiting For The Right Moment To Act.

Myspace Is An Addiction.

We Have To Stop And Be Humble Enough To Understand That There Is Something Called Mystery.

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.

I Write From My Soul. This Is The Reason That Critics Don't Hurt Me, Because It Is Me. If It Was Not Me, If I Was Pretending To Be Someone Else, Then This Could Unbalance My World, But I Know Who I Am.

I'm Not A Person That Socializes Very Well.

I Never Say I Am A Guru.

I Cry Very Easily. It Can Be A Movie, A Phone Conversation, A Sunset - Tears Are Words Waiting To Be Written.

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.

People Are Very Reluctant To Talk About Their Private Lives But Then You Go To The Internet And They're Much More Open.

I Think You Can Have 10,000 Explanations For Failure, But No Good Explanation For Success.

I Walk Every Day, And I Look At The Mountains And The Fields And The Small City, And I Say: 'Oh My God, What A Blessing.' Then You Realise It's Important To Put It In A Context Beyond This Woman, This Man, This City, This Country, This Universe.

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.

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.

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.

I Am Not A Self-help Writer. I Am A Self-problem Writer. When People Read My Books, I Provoke Some Things. I Cannot Justify My Work. I Do My Work; It Is Up To Them To Classify It, To Judge.

This May Sound A Little Bit Idealistic, But When I Go To My Blog, My Facebook Page, My Twitter Account, I Talk To Different People From All Over The World, And You See How It's Easy To Establish A Dialogue.

When You Write An Article About Anything, Trolls Use The Comments To Attack. They Feel Frustrated - But Haters Are Losers. It's Not Good To Feed This Aspect. It's More Intelligent To Be Constructive.

I Talk To My Readers On Social Networking Sites, But I Never Tell Them What The Book Is About. Writing Is Lonely, So From Time To Time I Talk To Them On The Internet. It's Like Chatting At A Bar Without Leaving Your Office. I Talk With Them About A Lot Of Things Other Than My Books.

I Always Was A Rich Person Because Money's Not Related To Happiness.

I Am 100 Per Cent Virgo, Stubborn, Over-organised, Slightly Abstracted From The Rest Of The World.

I Have Been Practicing Archery For A Long Time; A Bow And Arrow Helps Me To Unwind.

Writing Means Sharing. It's Part Of The Human Condition To Want To Share Things - Thoughts, Ideas, Opinions.

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.

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.

My Literature Is Much More The Result Of A Paradox Than That Of An Implacable Logic, Typical Of Police Novels. The Paradox Is The Tension That Exists In My Soul.

I'm First And Foremost A Writer. I Followed My Personal Legend, My Childhood Dream Of Becoming A Writer, But I Can't Say Why I'm One.

The Gigantic Tension Before The Shooting Of An Arrow, And The Total Relaxation Seconds Later, Is My Way Of Connecting To The Universe.

What I Can Say Is That All My Characters Are Searching For Their Souls, Because They Are My Mirrors. I'm Someone Who Is Constantly Trying To Understand My Place In The World, And Literature Is The Best Way That I Found In Order To See Myself.

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.

What Interests Me In Life Is Curiosity, Challenges, The Good Fight With Its Victories And Defeats.

Things Do Not Always Happen The Way I Would Like Them To Happen, And I Had Better Get Used To That.

The More Violent The Storm, The Quicker It Passes.

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.

When You Want Something, All The Universe Conspires In Helping You To Achieve It.

We Have Lost Contact With Reality, The Simplicity Of Life.

No, I Never Saw An Angel, But It Is Irrelevant Whether I Saw One Or Not. I Feel Their Presence Around Me.

I Am A Catholic Because I Choose To Be A Catholic. And Then I Go To The Mass Because I Choose. It Is Out Of My Free Will.

Physical Elegance, Which Is What I Am Talking About Here, Comes From The Body. This Is No Superficial Matter, But Rather The Way That Man Found To Honour The Way He Places His Two Feet On The Ground.

The Major Religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, They Deny Somehow That God Has A Feminine Face. However, If You Go To The Holy Texts, You See There Is This Feminine Presence.

Most Of My Young Years Were Spent Under The Boots Of The Military.

If You Start By Promising What You Don't Even Have Yet, You'll Lose Your Desire To Work Towards Getting It.

My Connection With Brazil Is So Abstract. My Blood And My Way Of Thinking Is Brazilian, But That's It. I Don't Tend To Go Back To The Past, And Although I Have An Apartment There, I Rarely Visit. When I Move, I Really Move.

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.

Sometimes I Catch Myself Stooping, And Whenever I Am Like That, I Am Sure Something Is Not Quite Right.

The Good Old Days, When Each Idea Had An Owner, Are Gone Forever.

Everything Is Possible, From Angels To Demons To Economists And Politicians.

Publishing Is In A Kind Of Jurassic Age.

You Should Treat A Muse Like A Fairy.

It's Not Difficult For Me To Put My Feelings Into Written Form. I Try To Be Concise And To Go Direct To The Subject. This Is What People Like About My Work, And What The Critics Hate.