Paulo Coelho Quotes

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I...

I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.

I needed to talk about my real personal history, in order to become free of it.

I once saw a woman wearing a low-cut dress; she had a glazed look in her eyes, and she was walking the streets of Ljubljana when it was five degrees below zero. I thought she must be drunk, and I went...

I open the curtains in my office and see people out there, some walking and holding hands without having to worry about the consequences. And I can’t show my love,

I savour the idea of my new state: single and a millionaire.

I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.

I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies

I think that perhaps we always fall in love the very first instant we see the man of our dreams, even though, at the time, reason may be telling us otherwise, and we may fight against that instinct, h...

I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

I want to believe that it is wonderful to be free. Free again. Ready to find my one true love, who is waiting for me and who will never allow e to experience such humiliation again.

I was an exotic bird traversing an earth ravaged by humanity’s poverty of spirit. I

I was trying to come round to the idea that there might be an invisible reality capable of interfering in our lives, but the only reason I did so was because of a love I didn't want to believe I felt...

I will at least have gained one very

I will be able to love above all discontentment.To give even when I am stripped of everything.

I will never be yours, and you will never be mine; nevertheless, I can honestly say: I love you, I love you, I love you.

I will not talk to my own darkness anymore, I promised myself, closing the door on the Other. A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth.If I have to fall, may it be from a...

I'm afraid that if my dream is realized, I'll have no reason to go on living.

I'm going away, he said. And I want you to know that I'm coming back. I love you because....Don't say anything, Fatima interrupted. One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.