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

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.
Paulo Coelho

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
Paulo Coelho

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

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Paulo Coelho

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Paulo Coelho

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Paulo Coelho

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

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