Paulo Coelho Quotes

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.

~ Paulo Coelho

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

~ Paulo Coelho

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

~ Paulo Coelho

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

~ 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

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

~ 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

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.

~ Paulo Coelho

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.

~ Paulo Coelho

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

~ Paulo Coelho

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

~ Paulo Coelho

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

~ Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

~ Paulo Coelho

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