Paulo Coelho Quotes

I don’t know the secret of success - but the secret of failure is to always try to follow the will of others.

I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, be...

I feel like making the mistakes I always wanted to make, but never had the courage to...I can make new friends and teach them how to be crazy too in order to be wise. I'll tell them not to follow the...

I gaze lovingly at Hilal a love that is reflected through time or what we imagine to be time, as in a mirror. She was never mine and never will be; that is how it is. We are both creators and creature...

I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face upto them. I also learned to forgive myself and correct my mistakes

I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up with them.

I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things.

I must try to enjoy all the graces that God has given me today. Grace cannot be hoarded. There are no banks where it can be deposited to be used when I feel more at peace with myself. If I do not make...

I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who silently fulfil the role life has given them. I want to be able to do this because the most...

I want to continue being crazy, living my life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be.

I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.

I wanted to...feel hatred and love, despair and tedium-- all those simple, yet foolish things that make up everyday life but that give pleasure to your existence. If one day I could get out of here, I...

I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous.

I'm alive, he said to the boy, as they ate a bunch of dates one night, with no fires andno moon. When I'm eating, that's all I think about. If I'm on the march, I justconcentrate on marching. If I hav...

I'm an old, superstitious Arab, and I believe in our proverbs. There's one that says, 'Everything that happens once can never happen again. But anything that happens twice will surely happen a third t...

I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.

If a person is living out his destiny, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

If she had looked more deeply into herself, she would have realized that what had thrilled her about the bird was his freedom, the energy of his wings in motion, not his physical body.

If someone comes to you with a gift, and you do not accept it, who does the gift belong to? - asked the Samurai.

If there hadn't been a sixth day, man would not exist; copper would always be copper; and lead just lead. It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be re...