Paulo Coelho Quotes

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

Waiting, Suffering, Knowing

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

Time, Happen, Again

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

Experience, Nothing, Brave

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

Help, Person, 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.
Paulo Coelho

Fear, Heart, Suffering

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

Life, Happen, Understand

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

Different, Become, Matter

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

Life, Waiting, Moment

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

Someone, Lie, Eyes

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

Love, Wise, Fool

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

Love, Reason, Loved

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

Universe, Achieve, Helping

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

Mistakes, Two, Acting

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

Falling, River, Staying

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
Paulo Coelho

Blessing, Ignored, Curse

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.
Paulo Coelho

Hurt, Someone, Soul

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.
Paulo Coelho

Love, Time, Women

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.
Paulo Coelho

Life, Love, Saying

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.
Paulo Coelho

Talk, Lives, Open

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

Love, Hell, Takes

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

Love, Light, Shadows

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

Work, Start, Lose

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.
Paulo Coelho

Happiness, Money, Great

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

Life, Reality, Lost

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

Humble, Understand, Enough

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Nationality: Brazilian

Born: August 24, 1947

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